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Royal Navy submarine HMS P.615. Imperial War Museum image: A 12308. Description: a view from off and above the starboard bow of a submarine with 'P615' painted on its conning tower and men visible on its deck, in enclosed water with the coast and other vessels visible in the background.
18 Apr 1943 // HM Submarine P.615, sailing from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Takorandi, Gold Coast, with minesweeper MMS.107, was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.123 off Sherbro Island. She sank in 10 seconds with loss of all 44 crew. (Imperial War Museum A12308) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1942 // HM Tug Andromeda sank with no casualties in Grand Harbour, Malta, after taking heavy damage from near-misses during an air raid. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1941 // An Admiralty Drifter with the appealing name of Young Ernie sank, happily with no casualties, after colliding with steamer Ben Idris off Tynemouth. #RoyalNavy #Shipwreck #WW2 #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1941 // Ocean boarding vessel Fiona was bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Sidi Barrani, Egypt. She sank very quickly with no time to launch boats. Loss of life was heavy: some sources say 67 lives were lost, some say 51, with about 40 survivors. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy submarine HMS Sterlet. Imperial War Museum image: FL 3619. Description: a starboard side view of a submarine on the surface and moored to a buoy in harbour, with the shoreline behind and warships visible in the background on the right.
18 Apr 1940 // Submarine HMS Sterlet is presumed to have been lost off southern Norway on or around this date, either sunk in a depth-charging attack or through striking a mine. She was reported overdue on 27 April. All 41 crew were lost. (Imperial War Museum FL 3619) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1915 // HM Submarine E.15, which had run aground in the Dardanelles on 17 April and was captured by the Turks with seven crew killed and the remainder taken prisoner, was scuttled in a daring night action by Royal Navy picket boats. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1906 // During night exercises with destroyers off Malta, HM Torpedo Boat TB.84 collided with HMS Ardent when the torpedo boat's officers were blinded by the destroyer's searchlights. She quickly sank. All on board were saved, but one man died later from his injuries. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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The court martial blamed the wreck on the 'unseamanlike and unskilful' conduct of her commander, Lt John Johnson, and her Master, John Callender: the former lost all seniority, the latter was imprisoned for one year and banned from serving as a Master for five years. [3/3] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1781 // 12-gun brig HMS Gibraltar, sailing from Gibraltar to Minorca with dispatches, was captured by two Spanish xebecs off Cape Gata. After a 4-hour chase the xebecs caught her up and opened fire, raking her. She surrendered after destroying the dispatches. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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As efforts to refloat the stranded sloop continued, three Spanish schooners entered the bay and opened fire on her. The situation was clearly not going to improve, so the decision was made to abandon the sloop. The crew set her on fire and escaped in the boats. [4/4] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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18 Apr 1697 (O.S.) // 24-gun fireship HMS Etna was captured by a French privateer off Brixham after a running fight lasting more than an hour. The Etna surrendered after having much of her rigging shot away and her decks repeatedly cleared by musketry from the privateer. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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Between late 1952 to early 1953 at the New York Naval Yard, the Essex class aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) undergoes a refit before her transfer to the Pacific Fleet.
#wasp #uss #carrier #warship #ship #nyc #usnavy #usn #usa #america #navalyard #navalhistory #history
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Looks wonderful - great to see some quality #NavalHistory happening 😎
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What a great little thread hush - many thanks, and bumping to the #NavalHistory feed 😊
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17 Apr 1873 // HMS Turtle, an Admiralty tug, was wrecked without loss of life in a gale at Ascension Island, where she was based. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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17 Apr 1673 (O.S.) // 6-gun fireship HMS Eagle was bound for the island of St Helena as part of a small squadron despatched in January from the Downs, but foundered in the Atlantic for reasons unknown. Her Pay Books were closed on this date. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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For decades, companies salvaged the steel because it was forged before nuclear testing and had zero radioactive contamination.
Hospitals used it in medical imaging equipment.
Even now, the most sensitive scientific detectors need pre-nuclear steel.
#NavalHistory #ScapaFlow #WWI
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#OTD On April 16, 1945, the Soviet submarine L-3 torpedoed the German transport ship MV Goya in the Baltic Sea, killing about 6,000–7,000 refugees and wounded soldiers. Part of Operation Hannibal, it sank in minutes and was one of the deadliest maritime disasters
#WWII #navalhistory #militaryhistory
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The Battle of the Tarigo Convoy took place in the early hours of April 16, 1941, when the British 14th destroyer flotilla intercepted a heavily laden axis convoy. This decisive British victory significantly hindered the supply lines of Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
#WWII #erwinrommel #navalhistory
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信じられない (Shinjirarenai)! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #NavGeek #NavalHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RN #JapaneseImperialHistory #IJN #AmericanHistory #USN #HistBookChat
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Great to see - and you and Drach are a great combo 😎
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St. Paul had it all! Great thread and convo, and bumping to the feeds 😊
#NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory
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Likely in the early 1920s, a rare snapshot of a Japanese Chikuma class protected cruiser. They served in the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1912 to 1940.
#chikuma #protectedcruiser #cruiser #ijn #japan #nippon #warship #ship #navalhistory #history #snapshot
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Currier and Ives lithograph of the Union gunboats running the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg, April 16, 1863.
On this day in 1863, Admiral David Dixon Porter runs seven ironclad gunboats and empty troopships filled with supplies past the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Thirteen men were wounded and one transport was lost.
#NavalHistory
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Anyone going to National Archives (TNA) Kew in the near future? I need a replacement photo of one page in a ship muster list .... #NavalHistory
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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
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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
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