royal navy
Field gun training. What you don’t see at the Royal Tournament.
A month ago I published a post appealing for the Royal Navy Field Gun race to be reinstated. It’s an explosive event with participants raining with sweat they’re putting so much effort into. I was intrigued about who the Field Gun participants were. What makes a Field Gunner? Why do they do it? What do…
Bring back the Royal Navy Field Gun Competition
It has to have been one of the most spectacular sporting events I’ve ever seen live. I was fortunate enough to receive an invite to the Royal Tournament and there was only one event I looked forward to. The Royal Navy Field Gun Competition. For years I’d seen it on TV, but all of a…
Jack Crawford – Hero of the Battle of Camperdown
If you take a walk through Mowbray Park in Sunderland, it won’t be long before you find a strange statue of someone climbing what looks like a tree, with an old flintlock pistol reversed in their hand. The man depicted by the statue is Jack Crawford. Jack Crawford, a Sunderland lad, joined the Royal Navy…
