Archibald Hurd

SIR Archibald Hurd (13 August, 1869 – 20 June, 1959) was a journalist and author who wrote the official history of the British Mercantile Marine in the Great War.

In the King's Birthday Honours of 4 June, 1928, he was knighted.

Papers

• Papers in the possession of Churchill Archives Centre.

Bibliography

• "Sir A. Hurd: Champion of Sea Power" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 22 June, 1959. Issue 54493, col D, p. 14.

Publications

• How Our Navy is Run (1902).
• Naval Efficiency (1902).
• The Command of the Sea (1912).
• German Sea-Power (1913, with Henry Castle).
• The Fleets at War (1914).
• From Heligoland to Keeling Water (1914, with Hector Bywater).
• The New Empire Partnership (1915, with Percy Hurd).
• If the British Fleet Had Not Moved! (1915).
• The German Fleet (1915).
• Murder at Sea (1915).
• An Incident of War (1916).
• If There Were No Navies! (1916).
• Naval Prospects in 1917 (1917).
• The British Fleet in the Great War (1918).
• Italian Sea-Power and the Great War (1918).
• Sons of Admiralty (1919, with H. H. Bashford).
• A Merchant Fleet at War (1920).
• The Merchant Navy (1921, 1929, 1929).
• The Sea Traders (1921).
• The Triumph of the Tramp Ship (1922).
• Ocean Tramps (1922).
• The Reign of the Pirates (1925).
• State Socialism in Practice (1925).
• The Eclipse of British Sea Power (1933).
• The Battle of the Seas (1941).
• Who Goes There? (1942).