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The talk at the meeting held at 7:30pm 11th May<\/strong> at the RNA club W G City was given by author Phillip K Allan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n A talk in two parts for SOCA<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Part 2 – The Wooden World in Action \u2013 The Battle of the Nile <\/strong><\/span> About Philip K Allan<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Philip K Allan<\/strong> comes from Hertfordshire where he still lives with his wife and two daughters. He has an excellent knowledge of the 18th century navy.<\/strong> He studied it as part of his history degree at London University, which awoke a lifelong passion for the period. A longstanding member of the Society for Nautical Research<\/em><\/strong>, he is also a keen sailor and writes for the US Naval Institute\u2019s magazine Naval History<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Please cli<\/strong><\/a>c<\/strong><\/a>k here f<\/strong><\/a>o<\/strong><\/a>r more <\/strong><\/a>details on his website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The talk at the meeting held at 7:30pm 11th May at the RNA club W G City was given by author Phillip K Allan A talk in two parts for SOCA Part 1 :- The Wooden World An introduction … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wooden-World-292x300.jpg\")
Part 1 :- The Wooden World
<\/strong><\/span>An introduction to the 18th century navy – a world apart from society ashore, with its own customs, language, and culture. How sailors were distinctive and easy to spot – clothes, jewellery, language, uncut hair, different songs and dances, tattoos. The ships and those that sailed on them. How they were built, how they operated. Life aboard, diet and disease, press gangs and mutiny, animals, children, and women aboard.<\/p>\n
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In 1798 the biggest fleet since the Spanish Armada left Toulon carrying a huge army under the new French Republic\u2019s crack general, Napoleon Bonaparte, and vanished into the wide Mediterranean. Where was it going, and what was its target? A British fleet under their own young hero, Horatio Nelson, was sent to track them down. In an epic hunt from Sardinia, to Sicily, to Malta and beyond, the fleets finally met in an epic battle fought at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Allan-Books-300x201.jpg\")
He is the author of the nine book Alexander Clay series<\/strong> of naval fiction set in the age of sail. The first book, The Captain\u2019s Nephew<\/em>,<\/strong> was published in January 2018, and immediately went into the Amazon top 100 bestseller list for Sea Adventures. He has recently turned his attention to the Second World War. Sea of Wolves<\/em><\/strong> is a novel set during the Battle of the Atlantic<\/strong>. A sequel, called The Wolves in Winter<\/em><\/strong>, was published last year.<\/p>\n