Straits Trilogy : ship drawings

The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean 1900-1915

Ship Drawings

The "Straits" Trilogy by Geoffrey Miller

Ships of the Victorian & Edwardian Navy :

I have been drawing the ships of the Victorian and Edwardian Navy for twenty years for my personal pleasure and I am including some of these drawings on this site in the hope that others may find them of interest. The original drawings are all in pencil. Reducing the file size and therefore the download time has resulted in some loss of detail.

A set of postcards featuring eight of my drawings is now available for £2.50, which includes postage anywhere in the world. For more information please click on the drawing below:

HMS Magnificent
First class battleship, laid down at Chatham Dockyard in December 1893, launched December 1894 and completed December 1895. Magnificent was sold for breaking-up in 1921.

HMS Commonwealth
First class battleship, laid down at Fairfield's, Glasgow in June 1902, launched May 1903 and completed March 1905. Main armament of four 12-inch guns; speed 18.5 knots. Served throughout World War One and was sold for breaking up in 1921.

HMS Berwick
First class armoured cruiser, laid down at Beardmores in Dalmuir in April 1901, launched September 1902, and completed December 1903. Berwick served throughout World War One and was sold for breaking up in 1920.

HMS London
First class battleship, laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in December 1898, launched September 1899 and completed June 1902. Main armament of four 12-inch guns; speed 18 knots. Served throughout World War One and was sold for breaking up in 1920. Pictured above at the Coronation Naval review of 1911.

HMS Devonshire
First class armoured cruiser, laid own at Chatham Dockyard in March 1902, launched April 1904 and completed August 1905. Main armament of four 7.5-inch guns; speed 22 knots. Devonshire served throughout World War One and was sold for breaking up in 1921.

HMS Champion
Steel corvette, completed 1878. Main armament, four 6-inch breech loading guns; speed 13 knots. Sold 1931.

HMS Albemarle
First class battleship, laid down at Thames Iron Works in July 1899, launched March 1901 and completed October 1903. Albemarle was sold for breaking-up in 1920.

The Links Page :

As the range of our activities is so diverse, we have a number of different websites. The site you are currently viewing concentrates on the three non-fiction books written by Geoffrey Miller, dealing with British Naval Policy in the Mediterranean from 1900 to 1915. The main Flamborough Manor site focuses primarily on accommodation but has brief details of all our other activities. To allow for more information to be presented on these other activities, there are other self-contained web-sites. All our web-sites have a LINKS page in common, which allows for easy navigation between the various sites. To find out where you are, or to return to the main site, simply go to the LINKS page.

HMS Berwick : Original artwork © 2004 Geoffrey Miller
HMS Berwick
[Original artwork © 2004 Geoffrey Miller]

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GREAT WAR SOCIETY

Fine as Miller’s account is of the events at sea, the book’s meat lies in the allegation in the subtitle, which advances a contention so novel that revisionistic is too mild a term for it. This is that three highly-placed individuals in Athens connived, directly or indirectly, to abet the escape … Miller’s version of events seems confirmed by his highly impressive research in primary sources … a valuable contribution to Great War naval literature.

Copyright © 1995-2013.
Please note that all rights are reserved and that no part of this publication may be further reproduced by any means without the prior permission of the author, Geoffrey Miller, who has asserted his right in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.