Fighting Pirates at Oysterhaven November 1618. Fergal Browne In the archives of Kent, in England, there lies a handwritten document dated 1621. Written in Elizabethan script by Admiral Sir Thomas Button it declares itself to be: A true accounte of services donne by his Majesties shippe the Phenix on the Coaste of Ireland, Under my […]
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A Kinsale Connection with the Battle of Coronel
By Padraig Walsh On the 1st November – All Saints Day – 1914 a naval battle off the coast of Chile, known as the battle of Coronel resulted in the destruction of a Royal Navy squadron. The British had suffered its first naval defeat for over a century with the loss of two armoured […]