The Royal Navy and the Suez Canal
The Royal Navy and the Suez Canal formed the core of the first talk in our May meeting. Dr Edward Hampshire is a historian at the Naval Historical Branch, [...]
The Korean War and Tilman’s Travels
The Korean War and Tilman's Travels enlivened our April meeting The Role of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth Navies in the Korean War 1950–53 Our member David Verghese is [...]
Shipwrecks and drowned lands of the Solent
In another packed session Garry Momber, Director of the Maritime Archaeology Trust (MAT), gave us an insight into shipwrecks and drowned lands of the Solent - some of the [...]
What becomes of used warships
We booked the larger Nelson Lounge for our February meeting – just as well, as it was packed out for Bob Lane’s account of what becomes of used warships. [...]
A brilliant January meeting
A brilliant January meeting featured Rear Admiral Angus Essenhigh. His varied and interesting career includes two ice patrol seasons commanding HMS Protector in and around Antarctica, HMS Daring’s 9-month [...]
Maritime Navigation and Eagle Ships
The RMC bar is a friendly venue for a pre-meeting lunch and chat Our well-attended December session covered maritime navigation and Eagle ships of WW2. Richard May, [...]
Naval Attaché in Paris
Our November speaker Nick Stanley was the British Naval Attaché and Assistant Defence Attaché in Paris between 2010 and 2013. On his wife’s insistence he turned down promotion to [...]
Queens at War
Our October meeting started with David Hutchings' fascinating talk on Cunard’s Queens at war, starting with an introduction to their predecessors’ failure in their planned role as armed merchant [...]
Moles, Menus and Wrecks of Dunkirk
Our September residential trip saw us taking in the moles, menus and wrecks of Dunkirk. OK, the start could have been better. An agency driver didn’t show up and [...]
From Palmerston to Eisenhower
Our August day visit took us from Palmerston to Eisenhower, Napoleonic Wars to D-Day. A morning in the D-Day map room at Southwick House inspired an excellent turnout, undeterred [...]