'HMS Beagle'

Around 1860 Japan was in turmoil about whether or not the country should engage in trade with the West. In 1863 insurgents – advocates of an isolationist policy – fired on western ...

England Home and Booty. Chief Petty Officer Alec Noble of Portsmouth comes ashore from the cruiser HMS Devonshire (39) with a clutch of bananas and a turkey. His wife and five daug...