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Column: Bermuda’s Royal Naval Tanks, Part 4
[Column written by Dr Edward Harris] In the first part of this series on the Royal Naval Tanks at St. George’s Island, Bermuda, the earliest [1803] published image of the watering facility for British warships was presented and then discussed in part two. In part three, the identities of the warships in the 1803 picture are considered and the 1808... Read more of this article
Column: Bermuda’s Royal Naval Tanks, Part 3
[Column written by Dr Edward Harris] In the first part of this series on the Royal Naval Tanks at St. George’s Island, Bermuda, the earliest [1803] published image of the watering facility for British warships was presented and then discussed in Part 2. In Part 3, the identities of the warships in the 1803 picture are considered and the 1808 and... Read more of this article
Column: Bermuda’s Royal Naval Tanks, Part 2
[Column written by Dr Edward Harris] In the first part of this article on the Royal Naval Tanks at St. George’s Island, Bermuda, the earliest [1803] published image of the watering facility for British warships was presented. That picture and several others are discussed here in part two. Discussion of the Porgay Picture of 1803 While Porgay appears... Read more of this article
Column: Bermuda’s Royal Naval Tanks, Part 1
[Column written by Dr. Edward Harris] One of the earliest artistic views of Bermuda appeared in 1803 in The Naval Chronicle and is a scene of the commodious Murray’s Anchorage to the north of St. George’s Island, with Fort St. Catherine and its rearward hills in the background. It is an aquatint, which is a form of intaglio printmaking that relies... Read more of this article
Column: Bermuda’s Stone Age Technology
[Opinion column written by Dr Edward Harris ] The Stone Age generally ended some five thousand years ago with the invention of forging tools in iron. Prior to that, implements were made of stone and probably of timber, although the latter is less obvious in the archaeological record, as it tends to rot. Sadly perhaps, we have never declared a “Timber... Read more of this article
Column: Dr Edward Harris On Flag, Heritage
[Written by Dr. Edward Harris] Is this flag Bermuda’s “National Jack”? Some years ago in the possibly unique series of 450-odd articles on Bermuda heritage, published in The Mid-Ocean News [now a victim of the digital age] and The Royal Gazette, I wrote a story about Bermudians and our connections with the Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the... Read more of this article
