he managed to negotiate her release to his care by proposing to give the girl to Queen Victoria. She was then given the name Forbes (and Bonetta, after his ship the HMS Bonetta), and presented to ...

Included in this selection are two submarines from Chile docked at Portsmouth harbour back in 1929. The 'Lamotte Piquet' of ...

Born in Dublin in 1833 he joined the navy in 1847, serving with the fleet in the Crimean war where he won his Victoria Cross. He later served in the Pacific, China and North America. In 1864 he ...