Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

Adventures in Victorian Science Fiction & Steampunk with ramblings about Aeronefs, Dirigibles, Land Ironclads, Anarchists, Dinosaur Hunting, Terranefs, Aquanefs, Mad Scientists, electric contraptions and steam conveyances. It may not make sense, but there will be claret and a nice cheese board at the end. Tally-Ho and "Vôtre dans une sauce au vin blanc!"

Showing posts with label Ironclad Navies. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ironclad Navies. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 May 2026

French Gunboats

Thinking of adding some maritime firepower to my Colonial French force with a gunboat, which would add some serious ability to dominate trad...

Sunday, 24 March 2019

HMVS Cerberus

Updated online history section at the Royal Australian Navy website here: http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-cerberus-hmvs The passing of the Co...

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Colonial Defences of Sydney

I have recently moved back to Sydney after around 10 years of living far and wide elsewhere. I have given myself a 'bucket list' ...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

RML 9 inch Armstrong Fortress Guns, Fort Gellibrand, Melbourne

These 9 inch (228mm) Rifled Muzzle Loading guns are 12 ton Armstrong Fortress guns (300 pounder guns - actual weight of shot was 256lb). ...

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Centre-battery ship

In Warship development of the 19th century, the transformation from broadside to batteries, turrets and barbettes was just as pivotal as the...

Thursday, 11 June 2015

The Never Were Ships catalogue

Found this brilliant collection of old B&W drawings of Italian ship designs which has some great ideas and inspiration for one's Aqu...

Saturday, 23 May 2015

USS Nautilus and the Nemo connection

I recently had the opportunity of visiting the US Navy's Submarine Museum, which includes the historic ship USS Nautilus : the world...

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