Archibald Hurd

Sir Archibald Hurd, late in life.

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

Life and Career

Born in 1869, the son of William Hurd, a solicitor, he started as a journalist at the Surrey Times, then the Western Morning News. At the age of 21 he became editor of the Naval and Military Record, before becoming Naval Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in 1899. From 1922 to 1928 he was joint editor of Brassey's Naval Annual. 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).
• Britannia Has Wings (1942).