'HMS Beagle'

A lithograph of HMS Arethusa, a 50-gun fourth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1849. The caption on the Print reveals that her commanding officer contemporary to ...

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...