Just finished reading this excellent novel which deserves to be better known. It has a lot of well developed characters which gives good insight at all levels of the ships company and contains probably the best description of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent I’ve read in a fiction novel. It also seems to have a well developed back story for the characters as you get hints of their past on the ‘Proteus’ which leaves you wanting to know more. If you haven’t read it, I recommend it and I’m looking forward to the sequel.
Month: September 2008
HMS Victory
There have been news articles about the possible sale of HMS Victory although the Second Sea Lord has insisted the review of Victory’s funding does not condemn her.
Vice Admiral Alan Massey said: ‘We’re extremely proud of HMS Victory. This unique warship is at the heart of the Royal Navy and there has never been any suggestion of giving her away or decommissioning the ship.’
A decision over her future will be made some time next year. Meanwhile Portsmouth councillors and prospective MP’s have set up an e-petition on the Number 10 website.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HMSVictory/
This ship is part of our national heritage and should not be privatised
Historic Naval Fiction Forum
The forum has been down for much of the night and now it has been restored by the host, forumotion.com, Sundays posts are missing. Luckily there were only 3 so I’ve reentered them but some of the other hosted forums have lost a lot of posts. They are not happy.
Historic Naval Fiction
The new website historicnavalfiction.com is now live and is starting to get a bit of traffic. 5 hits within 1 hour of launch so looking good.
Historic Naval Fiction Forum
I’ve been working on setting up the forum which now has 50 posts. I have got a dedicated domain for it now historicnavalfiction.net/ Now intending to split out the historic naval fiction section of my website into a dedicated website historicnavalfiction.com
The Land, The Sea and Space 