In the course of my voyages I've acquired or been gifted various unit patches. I still think this one from the US is my favourite play on words and genres. 😀

Hey TeamYouTube why is one of my videos, which is in English like all my other videos, now only available in four other languages with no English option?

Happy to announce we'll be partnering with Drachinifel The Warshipologist Christoph Bergs for the contents of our historical supplement. It will be available in digital format or printed format in all the tiers that include the game. 📖 We are extremely grateful to them for having

A recollection of very nice and, in some cases, unique video footage of Italian warships in the 1930s Link: youtu.be/T163UQIJjHs?si… Dr Alexander Clarke Drachinifel Tuccy_WoWs💉💉💉🛸 Ammiraglio Nerd RichShips

💥NEW EPISODE OF HISTORY UNDONE! ❓What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded? 🗣️With Chris Parry & Drachinifel 💻Watch here👇🏻 youtu.be/KMMmNRazlIs?si…

Happy to announce my book with Naval Institute Press is now available for preorder internationally. If you are based in the UK it's here: amzn.to/40d48Sz News on signed copies etc coming next year. 😀

Why did the Royal Navy only reconstruct 3 ships in the 1930s out of the 10 Queen Elizabeths and Revenges? Why did only Royal Oak of the R class get improved deck armour? Did they plan to reconstruct Barham and Malaya? The answers involve a dive into RN "large repairs". 1/

💥NEW EPISODE OF HISTORY UNDONE! ❓What if Nazi Germany had FAILED to successfully invade Norway? 🗣️With Chris Parry & Drachinifel 💻Watch here👇🏻 youtu.be/Qs5l8wdHfRs?si…

If you are around my age and from the UK you can almost certainly here a background theme song to this picture as mini-Drach contemplates a 'new' beverage. 😀

This is why Able Seaman Floppy is at least of heavy cruiser displacement. (UK urban fox for scale)

New on the Pen & Sword Books blog: 💻 A guest post by Leonard R Heinz, author of The Fleet that Fought Itself (coming soon) 📖 🔗 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/4h2DW2m

Coming tommorow - A brief history on the development of ASDIC/Sonar along with some surprising adjacent developments. For example, here is what is effectively a directional passive towed array, in WW1!

ICYMI Save 30% off the RRP on this new release: 📖 The Fleet that Fought Itself – The Spanish Navy and the Civil War 1936–39 by Leonard R Heinz 🔗 buff.ly/YYtzY20

I'm writing part of the history section of the upcoming Task Force Admiral, along with a few others including Christoph Bergs, the Kickstarter has a couple of days left to run, in the video I explain a bit more about what the game is like. :) youtu.be/RDdWsA-gce4

Last year on this day, Battleship New Jersey arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard after ballast work at Paulsboro Marine Terminal. Once we arrived in Philly, the BB62 crew had to refuel with some Wawa!

Your regular reminder that the French battleships of the Danton class had a two deck tall wine cellar (case à vin).

Here's a brand new video where I tell the story of the battle of the Espero convoy, June 1940. One of the first engagements between italian and british warships 👉youtu.be/Q052z3h0UfY?si… Dr Alexander Clarke Drachinifel Ammiraglio Nerd

Tudor naval historians and researchers, I have completed a table format translation (as opposed to transliteration) of the 'Great Ships' portion of the Anthony Roll, so if you happen to want an easy to reference table in modern English for comparison etc purposes, let me know!