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 Melbourne Defences. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Melbourne Defences. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

The Defence of Melbourne, Redux?

Great to catch with a gaming mate recently (lets call him Dave, mostly because thats his name). Of course was showing him my recently comple...

Monday, 28 March 2016

Melbourne's Sea Forts that never were

Proposed but never built, based on the Channel forts off Portsmouth, UK. Would have made fascinating additions to the Victorian defensive n...

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). ...

Saturday, 20 November 2010

The Defence of Melbourne

Real documentation for the defensive plans for the colony of Melbourne (against those dastardly Russians most likely!), including the layere...

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Attack on Melbourne

Interesting details of a colonial harbour defense plan (minus the aerostats and aquanefs of course!) http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j35/kit...

Saturday, 19 September 2009

HMVS CERBERUS

I just picked up a lovely monograph on this wonderful piece of colonial naval history: 'HMVS Cerberus : Battleship to Breakwater....

Thursday, 16 April 2009

The Defence of Melbourne

I have been meaning to get around to posting about this excellent emo game put on at CANCON 09, yet sadly haven't found the time. But no...

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