𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘚𝘛: 𝗥𝗙𝗔 𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘆 is being fitted with high-tech kit to enable it to act as a "𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱" for underwater drones and crewless mine-hunting boats.
#IranCrisis #IranWar #RoyalNavy #OperationEpicFury #StraitOfHormuz #Iran
#OTD On 28 March 1941, the Battle of Cape Matapan opened off southern Greece, where British and Australian warships confronted the Italian fleet using radar-directed night attacks, severely weakening Italy’s naval presence in the Mediterranean.
#WWII #navalhistory #royalnavy
Royal Navy submarine HMS Syrtis. Image: Imperial War Museum A 29869. Description: black and white photograph of a submarine, starboard side profile view, under way on the surface with the buildings of a harbour city in the background.
28 Mar 1944 // Submarine HMS Syrtis, last heard from on 22 March, failed to respond to a signal on this date while on patrol off Norway and was not seen again. She was presumed lost with all 48 crew between 23 and 27 March, possibly sunk by a mine. (Image: IWM A 29869) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
HMS Campbeltown after the St Nazaire raid, 28 March 1942. German Federal Archives image, Creative Commons licence CC BY SA 3.0. Description: a black and white photograph of the forward portion of a warship lodged at an angle against the structures of a harbour, badly damaged and wreathed in smoke. A group of men can be seen just beyond her bows, surveying the scene from the quayside.
28 Mar 1942 // Destroyer HMS Campbeltown (ex USS Buchanan) was expended as an explosive blockship in the St Nazaire raid: she rammed the dry dock gate, and wrecked the dock when her charges detonated. Image shows her before the explosion (Bundesarchiv CC BY SA 3.0). #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
SS Titania at Copenhagen when in service with the Finland Steamship Company, 1908. As Royal Navy armed boarding steamer HMS Tithonus she was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in the North Sea on 28 March 1918. Image: Finland Heritage Agency via Europeana, Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0. Description: a painting of a white-painted liner with a black funnel with two white bands, under way in harbour with a large building on her left, other ships in the background on the right, and small boats in the foreground.
28 Mar 1918 // Armed boarding steamer HMS Tithonus (formerly SS Titania, Finland Steamship Co., requisitioned 1916) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.72 off Aberdeen. Four of her crew were lost. (Image: Finnish Heritage Agency, CC BY 4.0) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
28 Mar 1916 // HM Trawler Saxon Prince, a North Shields boat in naval service as a minesweeper, was lost with all 11 crew amid snowstorms and gales off Dover. She was seen on the evening of 28 March, and then disappeared. Subsequent searches found no trace of her. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
28 Mar 1801 // 6-gun schooner HMS Charlotte ran aground and was wrecked on Île à Vache, Haiti. All her crew were rescued by HMS Circe. The enquiry found that she was lost because no proper lookout had been kept, for which her commander, Lt Williams, was reprimanded. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
28 Mar 1795 // 74-gun HMS Illustrious, damaged at the Battle of Genoa (14 March), broke free while under tow. An accident with a gun holed her, and a gale then drove her ashore near Livorno, where she was abandoned and burnt. No lives were lost in this series of mishaps. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
28 Mar 1760 // 20-gun 6th-rate HMS Penguin was captured by two French frigates, Malicieuse (36) and Opale (32), off the coast of northern Portugal after a lengthy chase and an exchange of fire that shredded her rigging. She was burnt after capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Likely in August 1916, a crew snapshot of HMS Revenge’s first captain Admiral Sir Edward Burton Kiddle.
#captain #admiral #royalnavy #rn #battleship #dreadnought #uk #royalnavy #ww1 #worldwar1 #revenge #navalhistory #history #militaryhistory
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#OTD in 1942
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‘The British destroyer HMS Campbeltown sits destroyed, wedged into the dock gates of Normandie dry dock at #StNazaire in German-occupied France, on March 28, 1942. Members of the #RoyalNavy and #BritishCommandos carried out an amphibious raid on the docks ➡️
HMS Anson marks new era for Australia's nuclear submarine ambitions, but capability gap looms
#AUKUS #RoyalNavy #AusDefence #NuclearSubs #AusPol #AusNews
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Battle of the Malta Convoy, HMS Success attacks Généreux. HMS Foudroyant follows up in the background. Artist: E.H. Dyason
HMS Speedy by Geoff Hunt
A Well Earned Promotion
'After quitting Palermo, and when passing the Straits of Messina, Lord Keith placed me as prizemaster in command of the Généreux, 74 - shortly before captured by Lord Nelson's squadron - with orders to...
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #EarlOfDundonald
Trump says the UK's 2 aircraft carriers are 'toys'. The #RoyalNavy is squawking. So are the navy's fans, e.g. #Torygraph.
But #Trump is mostly right. The QEII carriers have had 3 big problems: they dont work, have no planes, and no escorts.
Now they sometimes […]
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Battle for the Taiwan Strait 2033. Speculative military fiction right out of today’s news. Paperback & Kindle available Amazon. 4 stars.
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Peter Schrank @schrankartoons on #IranWar #Trump #RoyalNavy @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
"L'affaire de l'agresseuse sexuelle à bord d'un destroyer de la Royal Navy : les détails choquants révélés en procès #agressionsexuelle #RoyalNavy"
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Looking forward to attending the Chilean Navy Day Commemoration Service in Westminster Abbey again and paying tribute to Lord Cochrane whose autobiography got me into sailing square riggers.
#ChileanIndependence #LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #ChileanNavyDay
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Ian Fleming's Intelligence Assault Unit, 30 #Commando, operated with distinction in the Med and Germany during #WW2 and lives on today! wix.to/6PDxI01 #RoyalNavy #IanFleming #History
27 Mar 1944 // HM Whaler Maaløy, sailing from the Maldives to Ceylon, disappeared with the loss of all 26 aboard. Among several passengers she was carrying a senior Maldivian minister, Prince Hassan Farid Didi. It later emerged U.510 had torpedoed and sunk her. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Image above shows HMS Dasher on northern convoy duty. We are looking at her bows and the photograph is reversed (her island was on the starboard side of the flight deck, not the port side as here) and marked for cropping with tape. [2/2] (Imperial War Museum: A 15348) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Details of the minefield and safe channels had been circulated but Kale's CO, Cdr Denison, was found by the court martial to have failed to acquaint himself with this information. He was severely reprimanded and dismissed his ship. [2/2] (Image of HMS Kale: Tyne & Wear Archives) #RoyalNavy #WW1
27 Mar 1916 // HM Drifter Lerwick, a Great Yarmouth boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, was driven ashore near Great Yarmouth during a gale and wrecked. All her crew were saved. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
Yes, the irony and sheer hypocrisy of Tory criticism of Labour on the state of our navy and military is off the scale.
It was the Tories who created the Defence mess we're in.
#Defence #RoyalNavy #ukpolitics #r4today #bbcnews #Iran #NATO #Trump
Le stade #rugbu Mayol de Toulon s’embrase pour un double crunch historique de la #MarineNationale contre ses homologues de la #RoyalNavy via @portailsousmarin.bsky.social presseagence.fr/toulon-rugby...
The sloop was lifted bodily, straining the entire hull and severely damaging her bow and forward sections. She suffered no casualties, did not lose power, and was able to return to Harwich where she was assessed as beyond repair. [2/2] (IWM images FL 17698 and A 27876) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
26 Mar 1942 // HM Submarine P.39 was damaged beyond repair by German bombing while alongside in Malta. There were no casualties (although many of P.39's crew were lost when HMS Olympus was sunk on 8 May 1942). The wreck was beached, and finally scrapped in 1954. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Jaguar. Imperial War Museum image: A 869. Description: a warship in a rough sea, seen in starboard side profile view sailing from left to right across the image, with a large explosion visible off her stern.
26 Mar 1942 // Destroyer HMS Jaguar was torpedoed off Sidi Barrani, Egypt, by U-boat U.652, while acting as one of the escorts for oiler RFA Slavol (also torpedoed and sunk). She exploded and broke in two, sinking with the loss of 193 men. (Imperial War Museum A 869) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
