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@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:55 PM

30 Sept 1941 // During a German air raid on Tyneside on the night of 30 September two naval trawlers were sunk: HMT Eileen Duncan (8 men lost) and HMT Star of Deveron (5 men lost). They were moored side by side at South Shields when hit by a stick of four bombs. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:54 PM

30 Sept 1940 // HM Trawler Comet was one of a number of vessels sent out to search for traces of the armed yacht Sappho which had been sunk by a mine in Falmouth Bay during the previous night, when she too struck a mine and sank with the loss of 15 of her 17 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:53 PM

30 Sept 1918 // HM Trawler Sealark II, a Hull boat in naval service as a minesweeper, sank off St John's point, County Down, Ireland, after colliding with naval trawler Henry Ford. Seven of her crew were lost and five survivors were rescued. #WW1 #RoyalNavy

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:53 PM

30 Sept 1918 // HMS Seagull, built as a torpedo gunboat in 1889 and rebuilt as a minesweeper in 1909, was sunk in a collision with merchantman SS Corribb off Dunoon in the Firth of Clyde. 53 men lost their lives and 21 survivors were picked up. (Imperial War Museum Q 75435) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Seagull, originally launched in 1889 as a torpedo gunboat and rebuilt in 1909. Photograph: Imperial War Museum, Q 75435. A warship under way, viewed from low on the starboard bow, with a shoreline of buildings visible in the background.

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:52 PM

The Germans then boarded the trawler and took various things they liked the look of, including all the sea-boots they could find, and then set charges which sank her after 5 minutes. The skipper was returned to his boat, safely reaching Mersah Matruh with all his crew. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:46 PM

The French made a clean getaway, sailing the schooner calmly past several British ships and a shore battery, which had been expecting her departure and so assumed all was well and let her pass unmolested. The Flying Fish became Le Tropard in French service until recaptured in April 1805. #RoyalNavy

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:39 PM

She was last seen by the Hector merchant ship in mid-Atlantic at the end of September, in difficulties with main and mizzen masts gone. She was not seen again. A seaman later claimed to be have been picked up from wreckage in mid-ocean, the sole survivor from her 500 crew. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:36 PM

30 Sept 1744 (O.S.) // 14-gun sloop HMS Grampus, sailing from Spithead to Lisbon, was chased and captured by ships of a French squadron in the English Channel, and was carried into Brest. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:30 PM

The image is a pencil, ink and wash drawing of the Constant Reformation by marine artist Willem van der Velde the Elder in 1648, probably made while she was at Hellevoetsluis with the Royalist squadron under the command of Prince Rupert. (National Maritime Museum: PAI7253) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory