Online Conference – Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail, 1st/2nd November 2022

Sep 2, 2022 | Digital, Education, External Conference, External Organisation

INAUGURAL ‘FROM REASON TO REVOLUTION 1721-1815’ NAVAL WARFARE IN THE AGE OF SAIL CONFERENCE

Saturday 1st – Sunday 2nd October 2022

Inaugural ‘From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815’ Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail Conference

Naval Warfare Conference £10.00

On the weekend of 1/2 October, 2022 Helion and Company will be hosting an online conference covering naval warfare in the period circa 1721-1815.

This is a ticketed event, at a price of £10 for both days, using the web-based Demio platform which will be familiar to anyone who has attended our virtual book launch events. All those who register will be sent recordings of the complete event. Fourteen papers cover a variety of aspects of naval history from across the long eighteenth-century (full programme below).

Saturday 1 October (BST)

14.30 ‘Doors’ Open

14.45 Introductions

15.00-16.00 Panel 1 Recruitment

1.  Joseph Krulder ‘“…infectious distempers”: Socioeconomics and their Effect on Royal Navy Recruitment, 1755-1756’

2. Jim Tildesley. ‘Seamen, Safe Houses and Secret Service: A British Consul’s Recruiting for the Navy 1795-1798’

16.15-17.15 Panel 2 North American Waters

1. Robin Thomas ‘The Royal Navy in North America, 1767-1772’ 

2.  James Nicholas Kaizer ‘Peacock versus Epervier: The Lost Historical Significance of the Single Ship Actions of the War of 1812’

17.30-19.00 Panel 3 Administration

1. Andrew Young ‘Anson: The Man Who Built a Navy’

2. Duncan Sutton ‘Passed by the Board: The Selection of Aspiring Marine 2nd Lieutenants during the Great War with France 1793-1814’

3. Andrew Johnston. ‘War and Peace: Changing Patterns in Royal Navy Courts Martial, 1812-1818’


Sunday 2 October (BST)

14.30 ‘Doors’ Open

14.45 Introductions

15.00-16.00 Panel 4 Personnel

1. Callum Easton. ‘“Safely Moored” Greenwich Pensioners in Perception and Reality’

2. Andrew J Lyter. ‘Navigating the Channels of Freedom: Black Pilots and the Delaware Bay, 1812-1813’

16.15-17.45 Panel 5 Seapower outside of Britain 1: France

1. Thomas Golding. ‘The Nile That Wasn’t: d’Estaing, Barrington and the Battle of St Lucia

2. Olivier Aranda. ‘An Unsung Success? The French Flying Squadrons in the Atlantic, 1793-1795’

3. Paul Leyland     Leyland, Paul. ‘Antwerp, England’s Achilles Heel’

18.00-19.00 Panel 6 Seapower outside of Britain 2: Southern European Powers

1. Mauro Difrancesco. ‘The Venetian vessels in the Second War of Morea: Failures and Successes of a Mediterranean Navy in the Age of Sail (1715-1718)’ 

2. Albert Parker. ‘Spanish Use of Sea Power, 1732-1749’

For full details please download the event PDF here.