Portsmouth, 2014. Keeping the family links strong. Richard Latham visits the Type 23 HMS Iron Duke in Portsmouth after her recent re-fit. Richard, who served in the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant, and myself are both grandsons of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe whose flagship at Jutland...
The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2014. With a helping hand from the Cayzer family, the great painting of « Some Senior Naval Officers of World War One », painted in 1921 by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope, goes back on show at the gallery in pride of position...
Scuttlebut, Spring 2014 Issue. A nice article appeared about the Caroline visit in the NMRN magazine, Scuttlebut, written by John Roberts. ...
The Belfast Telegraph, October 10th 2013. Apologies for the rather bad quality ! ...
With Ron Horabin at Cayzer House in London where, waiting for her day in the public eye, the Iron Duke waits. Ron, seen here beside his model, is holding a copy of the company history. ...
Belfast, Ireland. September 2013. I had a wonderful chance to visit HMS Caroline in Belfast before her major refit and rennovations start in 2015. "If Caroline can help tell the story of just why Jutland was so important in the first place and tell it in...
Runcorn, Liverpool. This was a really proud moment for me. It was when scratch model-maker, Ron Horabin, « handed me the keys » to HMS Iron Duke. Ron had spent almost three years building the beautiful 1/96 model. He gave me the ID after his wife, Angela, said...
Cambridge, USA. As a guest of Tony Lovell, Chief-Editor of www.The Dreadnoughtproject.org, I was put through my paces to see how well I could handle a Barr and Stroud FT 27 rangefinder. I didn’t do that well ! You can see the results on Tony’s site: http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tech/essays/Rangefinders/challenge/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oPK_CDpsyU...