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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ahahaha my phone sound is a bird so I can vouch not me. Although where I work now almost everyone has submarine pings 😂😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I am not off to the MOD which by all accounts is probably a good thing for my sanity 😂

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Lewis @agentsmiz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Honestly 😂 oh dear let me go and cry myself to sleep

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A rite of passage has been achieved. 1st history hands hatred email 😂 He was either watching me chat naval history with Keira Knightley, or Combat Ships, or Sunken Warships I mostly can't believe someone would go out of their way to google, find my website & then email... about hands?! Baffling 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Off to work for one of the big defence contractors in bid management

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I think so! I'm very ready to leave the boys club that is the maritime security industry

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Love Galleon! Went for a little snorkel and so a few turtles which was a wonderful surprise!

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I don't think much else has happened since I was last here... New job (start that in a few weeks). Got tipsy & entered a triathlon. Gunner still very cute. Dog tax below. Think that's everything up to date 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What is it actually taste of? We did not want to buy it for science 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And she's brought cast iron with her 😂⚓️

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I was talking to one of my best friends about this and she was like some people just want to go on holiday and relax, but my theory is that if you want to just sit by a pool & not see anything outside a hotel then what's the point in spending eleven and a half hours on a plane/£thousands to do so

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yeah the only thing remaining of the Carron Works sadly is the clock tower/gatehouse. They have kept a couple of guns inside, but the rest of it is now a new build estate

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Honestly it's such an incredible Island. We met a couple who have visited Antigua five times and never left the resort and I feel like they are missing out on so much!

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A little piece of Falkirk in Antigua #GunneryIsFunnery 🇦🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Well I just want to make sure all the guns are there mostly because I'll probably forget blue sky exists soon and go back to threads 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I do have questions about this, as somebody who hails from Somerset, the land of Cheddar...

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Shirley Heights was, like most of the forts in Antigua, built as part of the British defensive network protecting Antigua (in this case English Harbour). It functioned as both a signal station and an artillery position. Today it is known for weekly Thursday/Sunday sunset parties.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Also need to get the sap out of the way and hype up my wonderful boyfriend, who booked us a meal in the historic buildings of Nelson's Dockyard because he knew I'd want to go 🥹 Felt a little like walking straight into my own footnotes, or eating in a very aesthetic archive… with cocktails ⚓️🇦🇬

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Honestly it's like nothing I've ever seen

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Aha, no. St John's, Antigua! Slightly warmer 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Also had a lovely visit with the Royal Naval Tot Club of Antigua & Barbuda. The Tot Club meets every evening at 18:00. Notices & then a reading from Royal Navy history pertinent to that day, followed by a naval toast, which is of course different for each day of the week, & ofc one to HMTK ⚓️ 👑

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The surviving shiny shinies along the ramparts give ranges of fire across the harbour entrance and seaward. Although it never saw sustained fighting, its location reflects a broader purpose in which the presence of artillery functioned as a deterrent as much as defence. Separate funnery post inbound

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fort James was built in the early 18th century to defend St John’s against possible French incursions. The fort formed part of a wider network focused towards controlling both naval access and commercial movement within one of the Leeward Islands’ key anchorages. Cat tax included 🐱

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We didn't anticipate reaching the fort would involve scrambling up rocks with the aid of a rope... we were both in flip-flops. 😂 Added a little more chaos than expected, but the sunset made the decision worthwhile 🌅

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fort Barrington. Constructed in 1779 to defend the western entrance to St John's Harbour, the fort was previously known as Goat Hill Fort, Cripplegate Batter & Queen's Battery before being renamed in honour of Admiral Samuel Barrington, Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands Station

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There was a somewhat confused older American chap wondering why this woman was grubbing about in an old water storage tank taking photos, but I explained, gave a little history lesson, and then he hopped in and had a look, too 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It is a powerful reminder that the history of the dockyard was shaped not only by people like Nelson, but by the thousands of ordinary sailors and also dockyard workers, whose service sustained Britain's global maritime power.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The graffiti is on the walls of a water storage tank, just outside the dockyard. Something I've wanted to see since Sam Willis made a docu about them a while ago. Thanks to recent research, many of these names, and the ships in which the men served, have now been linked to muster and pay books.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Despite its strategic importance, Nelson was far from enamoured with Antigua... Even famously referring to English Harbour as 'an infernal hole' (a mixture of the heat, disease, and also political frustrations that did somewhat tarnish his posting).

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nelson's Dockyard. This was a pilgrimage for me, as it would be for any naval historian, I suspect. Between 1784 and 1787, a young Horatio Nelson spent time here, enforcing the Navigation Acts and protecting commercial interests in the Caribbean.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We then drove over to Devil's Bridge (which reminds me a lot of the limestone formations at Portland Bill). The bridge’s natural arch was formed by thousands of years of waves battering the cliff 🌊

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Started off with a trip to Betty's Hope - Antigua's first sugar plantation. It was also one of the largest rum producing works, and is now preserved as a monument to the slaves who worked there. Apparently many people don't take the time to visit but we felt like it was incredibly important to.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Where to start...? I won an IG competition for a holiday to Antigua last year... those things aren't all scams, apparently... ... so we recently spent a week at Blue Waters 🌸🌺 Many rum punches consumed.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh, no, I was in Antigua for a week 😂

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