pferguson | March 29, 2021
Container Ships and Dreadnoughts Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, […]
pferguson | May 31, 2016
In Memory of Fallen Comrades. Jutland Service 1933. British Pathé Update to Two Days of May A recent jaunt to the University of Victoria has found four other sailors with Canadian connections lost at sea during the Battle of Jutland May 31 – June 1, 1916. Royal Canadian Navy Engineer Lieutenant Stanley N. de Quetteville, […]
pferguson | May 28, 2016
The Skye Boat Song. Perhaps appropriate for Two Days of May. JUTLAND North Sea near the coast of the Denmark Peninsula May 31 – June 1, 1916 The research dance has started again. Realizing that the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland was on a fast approach I wrangled through several ideas firstly taking on the […]
pferguson | February 17, 2015
The Royal Navy’s Great War Battle Commemorations Recent research into the Royal Navy fleet that Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of the Admiralty, built has led to some interesting discoveries. Fisher was instrumental, or rather was the powerhouse, in re-developing the British Navy. In October 1905 the Dreadnought program commenced […]
