It's been absolutely nuts since coming back from Brittany, with a funeral in Bath, a day trip down to Plymouth to pick up stuff from the boy's flat and even a missing person man hunt for a friend's elderly relative, who wandered off from his sheltered housing and got lost overnight.
This means I've not had time for anything remotely wargaming related, so instead I've set out what I'm going to do for the rest of the month, prior to starting a new project in September.
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2025/06/summer-naval-project-ww1.html
I have been focusing on the First World War this year including the naval campaign in the Black Sea and the hint for the Goeben, with a Turkish fleet ready for painting, so this will be my focus for the rest of the month.
I may also tinker with a few other things of a naval persuasion, such as rebasing the 1/600th War of the Pacific stuff and perhaps even refurbishing the 1/1200th scale models I was given, but nothing too much as I just won't get it done otherwise!
On the Black Sea war, there's a chronology in Rene Greger's "The Russian Fleet 1914-1917" (Ian Allan, 1972) and in Bernd Langensiepen & Ahmet Guleryuz, "The Ottoman steam navy 1828-1923" (Conway, 1995). A fine overview of the conflict is in ch.8 of Paul Halpern, "A naval history of World War I" (UCL/Naval Institute Press, 1994). The two largest engagements are covered in Stephen McLaughlin, "Predradnoughts versus a dreadnought: the action off Cape Sarych, 18 November 1914” (in Warship 2001-2002), Toby Ewin, “British account of the action off Cape Sarych” (The Mariner's Mirror 102:2, May 2016) and Toby Ewin, “Action off the Bosphorus, 10 May 1915” (in Warship 2024). Other aspects of the war, including the interrogation of POWs, sustained Russian attrition of the Ottoman merchant marine, the collapse of Ottoman coal production, and POWs' use of codes, are covered in Toby Ewin, “Naval interrogation of POWs in the Black Sea war, 1914 and 1916” (The Mariner’s Mirror 108:3, August 2022). The latter is Open Access and can be read without subscibing to the journal.
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