Mike at SBSDec 23, 20218 minPook's TurtlesThe American Civil War produced some of the strangest ship designs I've ever seen. Among the most odd were the river gunboats known...
Mike at SBSDec 19, 20215 minThe TimbercladsWhen the American Civil War began in 1861, the US Navy was charged with executing the famous Anaconda Plan, which aimed to strangle the...
Mike at SBSJun 20, 20211 minJuneteenth 2021This 19 June 2021 marks the long overdue first officially recognized Juneteenth. This holiday marks the end of slavery in the United...
Mike at SBSAug 1, 20203 minEllet RamsAdmittedly, when I started working on Ironclads all I thought about were the coastal ironclads like USS Monitor and CSS Virginia....
Mike at SBSDec 8, 20192 minScharnhorstExactly 105 years ago, on 8 December 1914, Graf von Spee's German East Asian Squadron sailed to the Falkland Islands...
Mike at SBSOct 18, 20191 minRaid on Zeebrugge I found this fantastic 1923 recreation of the famous 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.
Mike at SBSOct 4, 20194 minBremen-class cruisersBy the time of the Great War, the seven Bremen light cruisers were already a decade old. However, they saw action across the globe...