Thomas Alexander Cochrane, Admiral the Earl of Dundonald

The Mariner's Mirror, 2018

The Mariner's Mirror, 2015

The Mariner's Mirror, 2015

The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord, 2019

il s'est vu chargé de réduire les forces sur les lacs au lendemain de la guerre et d'établir la paix dans les mers intérieures. Au cours de l'année qu'il a passée au Canada, Sir Edward a aidé à retirer les troupes de la province du Haut-Canada, à résoudre les problèmes d'équipage des navires restés en service et à rédiger des rapports pour l'Amirauté sur les améliorations à apporter aux communications et à la défense le long des Grands Lacs. The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord Owen played in the shift from war to peace on the Great Lakes, in 1815. Sir Edward's Early Career Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, the first illegitimate son of Welsh born Royal Navy Captain William Owen, came into the world on 19 February 1771, at Campobello, Nova Scotia. 3 Captain Owen returned to England and managed to have his son's name placed in Sir Thomas Rich's ship's muster, as a servant, in 1774. 4 Edward's navy experience began in earnest in 1780, and followed much the same path as other contemporary officers. After the required time as a midshipman, followed by a lieutenancy he became a captain in 1798, with the requisite patronage of senior officers. 5 Edward Owen's experience on the French and Dutch coasts during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, honed his skills in cutting out expeditions, coastal bombardment, and trade interdiction. He participated in the doomed Walcheren expedition in 1809, earning accolades for his work in the frigate Clyde. 6 More inshore activity followed until he was moved into the Dorset yacht in July 1814, at Deptford. On 12 December he received orders to take command on the inland seas of the North American Station. In April 1815, among the many honours awarded for service during the Napoleonic War, Owen was created a Knight Commander of the Bath. 7

While his legacy remains strongest in reference to the 1740-44 circumnavigation, biographers and scholars from the time of his death in 1762 have justified Sir George Anson's memorialization in print in various ways. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Anson’s first biographers sought to justify the importance of his career despite perceived personality quirks and limited successes in combat. One way to gain status for the Admiral was to highlight the support he offered other officers who were more conventionally “successful,” i.e. victorious at sea. In the early twentieth century, Anson’s biographers claimed his unbridled brilliance in his own right, both at sea and at the Admiralty. They inverted his role as one of peripheral patron to the active kingmaker of the Royal Navy. The manner in which Anson was and is remembered offers insight into the quixotic nature of naval heroism. What follows is an examination of biographies of Anson from the late-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It is not an exhaustive bibliography but rather an attempt to highlight how history, especially the celebrated naval past still so central to British national identity, is subject to variation, addition, and revision.

Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700–1850, 2017

This trinity [of war] is composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity ... of the play of chance and probability, within which the creative spirit is free to roam; and of its element of subordination, as an instrument of policy, which makes it subject to pure reason. ' (Clausewitz, On War, 1780-1831) In his final book, entitled Nelson, the Admiral, Colin White explored the great British naval officer's gift for leadership-his strong emotional ties to the profession, and his dedication to the service of his King and country, as well as his ability to build an outstanding team of officers with whom he shared these concerns and to whom he provided not only an example, but also affection and even friendship. Nelson's great sensitivity to the harsh conditions endured by the crews of his ships and fleets won the admiration of even the least of his subordinates. 208 There can be no doubt that the quality of leadership in the three great maritime powers of the period-Great Britain, France and Spain-affected how international conflicts unfolded at sea between the years 1750 and 1850.

2015

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), the armies of the French Republic and Empire performed very well – for much of this period, France dominated Europe. However, the oceans were a different matter. The British Royal Navy enjoyed a long period of spectacular naval operational success, allowing Britain to maintain and expand its colonial empire, protect its extensive seaborne trade, and protect British territory from the French armies which had overrun much of Europe. There were many factors in the navy’s success, such as its administration or shortcomings of its enemies. This thesis explores the role of the Royal Navy’s various rules, regulations, and traditions on its effectiveness. The Royal Navy used the allure of prize money to motivate its personnel, and used the threat of unemployment to motivate its officers. Many regulations and traditions ensured that the naval officer corps was strong and fit for service. Above all, the navy cultivated and encouraged a “fighting spirit” or an “offensive ethos” among personnel. Through the above-mentioned motivations and threats, along with the Navy’s official Articles of War and various incarnations of Fighting Instructions, officers and crewmen were encouraged to conform to the navy’s offensive ethos. They were encouraged to engage the enemy whenever possible, even against superior odds. As victories mounted during the late Eighteenth Century and into the Napoleonic Wars, morale soared in the Royal Navy, causing the men of the fleet to openly seek battles with the enemy and to fully expect victory even against superior odds. It was a strategy which cultivated good morale in the Royal Navy and ensured that the fleet was able to fulfill Britain’s war aims

The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord

The balance of Haarr's stories start with more general descriptions of submarine construction, operation, and life of those who manned them followed by briefer stories, often with quotations from diaries, logs or messages of exploits when on patrol. These vary from offensive operations off the still neutral or Allied European coasts, Heligoland, to the occupation of the Low Countries and northern France. Almost every operation, whether offensive, resulting in successful attacks or minelaying, RN or Polish and French patrols, are supported by frequent, clear photographs of Allied or enemy ships and crews, many with expanded cut-lines, maps of locales or even drawings of equipment on board. Quotations from crew members lends a sense of realism and immediacy. His twenty-eight pages of notes and references are more than just that, with many expanding on the reference and its relevance, a welcome change for the interested reader. The somewhat hard first winter of the war played a part for the submariners, as did neutral Norwegian and Danish fishermen, again illustrated by supporting photos. Haarr gives a useful assessment of the various classes and sizes of RN boats and their several Allied companions, such that we have an understanding of what subjective attack and defensive moves were controlled by the commanding officers. In the 18 months covered by this book, twenty s/m were lost in total, with losses attributed across the spectrum, four or five with uncertainty to this day: German submarines-4; to collision-1; to aircraft-2; and five each to enemy surface vessels or mines, several of these being either/or. Many patrols are described day-by-day once the area of operation was entered-North Sea, Bay of Biscay, or the Baltic. Others, particularly those involving minelaying-a frequent occupation-are more general, although frequently enlivened by quotations. Crews faced many hazards as they learned their jobs, capabilities, and dangers. Despite its 450 pages, this book is well worth shelf space for those interested in the submarine game.

Military Heritage Magazine, 2004

action against the Barbary pi rates (depicted below) and was commended for his courage. ln 1814 he would lead one of the decisive battles of the war against Britain. against the Americans. Squadron commander Captain Edward Preble was determined to erase the stain on the infant Navy's honor and humble the pirates,'regardless of the price. He: had a plan and, more importantly, he had trained the men who would caffy it out. On the night of February 16, t804, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr., commanding the prize ketch lntrepid and a handpicked crew of 74, entered Tripoli harbor unchal-Arab garb and masquerading as a merchantman in distress, the small boat drew up alongside Philadelphia, Sitting beside his capta tn, a 21"year-old midshipman clutched the hilt of his cutlass tightly and prepared himself for close combat. \[hat Admiral Horatio Nelson later described as "the most bold and daring act of the age" was about to unfold, and Thomas Macdonough was at its center. Son of Thomas McDonough, a tionary \Var hero, and Mary Vance McDonough, Thomas Jr. was born at The Trap,a hamlet in New Castle County Del. (later renamed Macdonough in his honor). Differing sources place his birth date at either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, 1783.His father had served as a militia major at the Battle of Long Island, where George Washington cited him for gall antry. After being wounded at the Battle of \flhite Plains, Thomas Sr. returned home and began a politic al carcer, holding the office of Speaker of the Delaware Council and sitting as a justice of the