212 years ago today, on the 6th June 1801, Captain Sir Thomas Cochrane took on the Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo in his 14 gun sloop Speedy and made his way into the history books.


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Now I've got time to catch breath, it's time for another picture of the midshipman's berth and there's a bit of a story to this one...


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It's still the 14th of December in some parts of the world, so...born on this day in 1775 Thomas Cochrane, Admiral of the Red, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão.


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This reflection on Edward Pellew is taken from a paper that was read to cadets on board HMS Exmouth (flagship of Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, Commander in Chief of the Channel Fleet) by Fleet-Surgeon W.E. Home, on January 15th 1907.


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Better late than never! As promised some time ago, here's a copy of the presentation that nodbear and I gave at the New Researchers in Maritime History Conference.


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The National Museum of Scotland have published another guest post about Admiral Lord Cochrane on their blog The Feast Bowl. This time the post is written by Miriam Heard writer and star of the Chilean TV series Diary of a Residence in Chile which is based on the diaries of Maria Graham, a young English widow who became a close friend of Cochrane ( Read more... )

Remember I mentioned that we bumped into some real Latin American navyboys at the Cochrane exhibition in Edinburgh last weekend? That would have been the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of Chile himself, Admiral Edmundo Gonzalez. And here he is with the exhibition's senior fanboy curator, Dr Start Allan.


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