Anne-Hilarion de Costentin, comte de Tourville Many ship constructions have already been ordered since the opening of this war between...

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 61 years old, Secretary-of-State for the Navy since 1669, has established three schools of naval architecture for...

SS Sirius Two steamships (or SS in short), Sirius and Great Western , simultaneously cross the Atlantic Ocean from Cork in Ireland for...

Royal Sovereign 1701 A new Establishment extends standardisation of warships to a larger number of dimensions – hence the constraints to...

José Antonio de Gaztañeta The shipyards of Orio and Pasajes, west and east of San Sebastian, build six 60-gun ships of the line, three...

The British Admiralty establishes a standardisation and a specification of the general dimensions for the next vessels to be built. ¤ ...

Last year, a war broke out between Algiers and France at Dey Baba Hassan’s initiative. It implicitly involves the whole Barbary Coast,...

The United Provinces and France have been at war for five years. They have been struggling for ruling the seas while the Royal Navy has...

Anthony Deane, 37 years old, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth dockyard since 1668, publishes his Doctrine for Naval Architecture . ...

The three-deckers have multiplied lately. They also tend to inflate up to tremendous sizes. Their design and building remain quite...

The great three-decker Sovereign of the Seas  reappears as the Royal Sovereign after her rebuilding in the same Royal dockyard of...