16 Apr 1945 // Captain-class frigate HMS Ekins was severely damaged when she struck two mines off Ostend. There were many injuries but nobody was killed. She was able to return to port but was declared a constructive total loss. She was decommissioned and scrapped. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Esquimalt. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Description: a small warship at speed, photographed from off the starboard bow, with the coast visible in the background.
16 Apr 1945 // Minesweeper HMCS Esquimalt was torpedoed and sunk by U.190 off Halifax. 44 men died. She sank too quickly for signals to be sent, and her survivors were not found for many hours, several dying of exposure before rescue. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalCanadianNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
All five ships of the convoy were sunk, as were Luca Tarigo and Lampo (later salvaged). HMS Mohawk was scuttled with gunfire to ensure that she would sink, but came to rest in shallow water, and Italian divers were later able to retrieve documents from the wreck. [3/3] #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
16 Apr 1918 // Two Admiralty drifters sank due to collision on this day: HMD Select was struck by SS Claddagh off Tenby, Pembrokeshire (one man lost), and HMD Sunbeam I sank (all saved) off Inchkeith Island, Firth of Forth, after being hit by an unknown vessel. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
Her captain, after consulting with his officers, decided that, outgunned and outnumbered, they had no choice but to surrender. The subsequent court martial condemned him for failing to put up more of a fight, and he was dismissed the Service (but reinstated in 1713). [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Finally, surrounded and unmanoeuvrable, HMS Hope surrendered. Anglesey and Roebuck both reached safety. The man who caused the escorts to lose touch with the convoy was dismissed the Service, having been fined and paraded round the Fleet with a halter round his neck. [5/5] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
COPP men sitting outside the barracks in early 1943 (from left to right): Peter Harris, Peter Palmer, Ron Loasby (‘on loan’ from the SBS), Caruth Main, John Seagust, James Walker.
🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP teams based in otherwise unused barracks at Għajn Tuffieħa, Malta, are ordered out – it's needed for a medical centre. The COPP men move into a nearby villa instead. (📸 Peter Palmer via Simon Hatch) #NavalHistory
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HMS Ramillies was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy commissioned into service in 1893.
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HMS Hood was a British Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Sovereign class, though significantly modified from her sisters. Hood was laid down in 1889 at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 30 June 1891. She was designed by the Director of Naval Construction, Sir William White, and was intended to serve as a low-freeboard battleship, which distinguished her fundamentally from the high-freeboard Royal Sovereign sisters. The low freeboard was caused by the use of turrets to mount her main armament. Her sisters all used open topped barbettes. This design choice increased her displacement, so that she sat much lower in the water, making her a smaller target but also far less seaworthy in rough conditions. Hood‘s active service career was relatively uneventful. She served with the Channel Squadron and later the Mediterranean Fleet, but her low-freeboard configuration meant she was of limited strategic utility compared to her more seaworthy sisters. On 4 November 1914, early in the First World War, when she was deliberately sunk as a blockship in the southern entrance of Portland Harbour to protect the anchorage from submarine attack.
HMS Hood was a British Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleship laid down in 1889 at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 30 June 1891.
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15 Apr 1943 // At about 1am HM Trawler Adonis was torpedoed and sunk by a German torpedo boat off Aldeburgh. She had just illuminated a group of E-boats with star shell when she was torpedoed by a boat that had gone undetected. 11 men survived from her crew of 32. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Furthermore, the hat worn by the figure on the boat appears to be printed with the words ‘IJN’.
However, the text is not clearly visible, and the clothing is not a sailor’s uniform.
Therefore, whilst it cannot be confirmed, I suspect he may have taken a photograph of the Hakusa.
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Camouflage scheme used on carrier KATSURAGI in March 1945 while moored at Kure. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-82000/NH-82538.html
Scheme used on carrier KATSURAGI while moored at Kure, March 1945. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-82000/NH-82539.html
However, it seems it had no effect.
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As ‘59’ is written on the landing gear, this is presumed to be the camouflage of the ‘Tora 159’ aircraft.
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Ropes are attached to the aircraft; these are used for camouflage against trees and other features.
That is all.
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HSwMS Göta was one of three Svea class coastal defence ships built for the Swedish Navy during the late nineteenth century. Launched in 1891 and completed the following year. Göta was finally decommissioned in 1938. #maritimehistory #naval #NavalHistory #Svenskamarinen #warship
#OTD On April 14, 1988, while conducting Operation Earnest Will, the guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) struck an Iranian M-08 mine in the Persian Gulf, creating a 15-foot hole in its hull, flooding the engine room, and breaking the keel.
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From aboard the Germany Reichsmarine Torpedoboat V6, crew pose for photos in their bunk space & mess hall.
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14 Apr 1944 // Landing ship HMIS El Hind (Royal Indian Navy) was destroyed in Bombay harbour, one of 11 vessels wrecked when merchant ship Fort Stikine, carrying 1400 tons of explosives, caught fire and blew up. The devastation and death toll were immense. #RoyalIndianNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy submarine HMS Upholder under way. Imperial War Museum image: FL 3803. Description: a submarine under way on the surface with her bows to the right, typed caption 'Upholder 1940' in the top left corner of the image.
Officers of Royal Navy submarine HMS Upholder photographed in Malta. Left to right: Lieut F Ruck-Keene RN; Lieut Cdr Wanklyn, VC, DSO, RN; Lieut J R Drummond, RN; Sub Lieut J H Norman, RNVR. Image Imperial War Museum: A 7295. Description: four naval officers on a harbour quayside with a submarine alongside behind them.
14 Apr 1942 // Submarine HMS Upholder was lost with all 32 crew off Tripoli on or around this date, cause unknown: possibly mined, or sunk by Italian warships, or German aircraft. (IWM images: HMS Upholder, FL 3803; her officers, Lt Cdr Wanklyn VC DSO 2nd left, A 7295) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1916 // Two Admiralty minesweeping trawlers sank after striking mines in a submarine-laid minefield off Grimsby: HM Trawler Alberta sank with 7 men lost, and HM Trawler Orcades sank with 6 men lost. The minefield had been laid by German submarine UC.7. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1828 // Two Royal Navy vessels disappeared with all hands in a severe storm off Halifax, Novia Scotia during 14-16 April: 14-gun brig HMS Contest, which was bound for Bermuda, and 18-gun ship sloop HMS Acorn, inbound from Bermuda. A total of 142 men were lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1794 // 64-gun 3rd-rate HMS Ardent disappeared while stationed off Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of France. Wreckage found in the area indicated that she had caught fire and exploded. All on board (approximately 500) lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1781 // 24-gun ship sloop HMS Mentor, trapped at Pensacola, Florida, by a Spanish siege, sent her guns and stores ashore in late March but then grounded and capsized. By 14 April she was threatened by advancing Spanish forces and was set on fire to avoid capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1745 (O.S.) // 16-gun brig sloop HMS Mercury was approaching Plymouth when she was headed off by two large French vessels, which chased her for three hours until they caught her up off the Lizard and mauled her masts and rigging until she was forced to surrender. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
14 Apr 1709 (O.S.) // 32-gun 5th-rate HMS Fowey was captured by two Spanish vessels, a warship and a privateer, off Cabo de Gata after a chase and running fight lasting 12 hours. She surrendered when masts, rigging and pumps were too damaged for her to continue. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Just finished my 24th Book Review of the Year! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #Avgeek #AviationHistory #NavGeek #NavalHistory #FalklandsHistory #ArgentinianHistory #BritishCommonwealthHistory #ColdWar #RN #FAA #CarrierWar #AirWar #Missiles #HistBookChat
Reading a little more about the Singapore Strategy and stumbling across this nugget!
The naval defences worked better but a landing party from HMS Norfolk was still able to capture the Raffles Hotel.
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Our latest article introduces a fascinating letter written on 30 August 1914 by Stoker Thomas Victor Rayson of HMS Falmouth, offering a rare firsthand account of naval warfare at the outbreak of the First World War.
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A turret shell for the cancelled USS Massachusetts a South Dakota class battleship laid down in 1920 for the U.S. Navy, but never completed. www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSMassachusetts #USSMassachusettsBB54 #USNavy #battleship #Navy #Naval #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Nice work, and bumping to some feeds 😊
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