Bombardeiro torpedeiro Fairey Swordfish da Royal Navy, sendo armado com uma mina, RAF Bircham Newton, Inglaterra, 1940

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New British attack submarine HMS Agamemnon seen here departing the Walney Channel this morning, having yesterday exited the Barrow-in-Furness submarine construction yard. Pic by David Billinge for Warships IFR, demonstrating finely tuned anticipation. More in next mag.
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It is indeed absolute absurd that there is no great memorial to Cochrane in Edinburgh

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25 Sept 1943 // HM Trawler Donna Nook sank after colliding with another naval trawler, the Stella Rigel, during an action between armed trawlers and German torpedo boats off Lowestoft in the early hours of the morning. All her crew were rescued. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1943 // Overnight on 24/25 September German torpedo boats were detected laying mines off the Essex and Suffolk coasts. HM Trawler Franc Tireur sighted them off Lowestoft at about 1am but was torpedoed as she turned towards them. She sank with 15 men lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1940 // During a Vichy French air raid on Gibraltar HM Trawler Stella Sirius was hit by a bomb while alongside at the South Mole. 14 men were killed and she was set on fire. She was scuttled where she lay to prevent her depth charges and ammunition exploding. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1940 // HM Drifter White Daisy was lost when she ran aground and was wrecked off Whalsay in the Shetland Islands. There were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1917 // HM Trawler James Seckar disappeared in the Bay of Biscay off Santoña, Spain, while going to the assistance of a torpedoed French cargo ship. Only after the war was it confirmed that she had been torpedoed and sunk with all hands (16 men) by U-boat UC.63. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1915 // HM Yacht Sanda, a patrol vessel, was with a squadron of monitors which were bombarding enemy positions on the Belgian coast when she received a direct hit from a heavy shell fired by a German shore battery. She sank immediately with the loss of 13 men. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

Efforts to refloat the cutter were unsuccessful, and were curtailed when three armed French luggers approached and opened fire. The Georgiana was then abandoned and set on fire. The crew rowed out in her boats to the Royal Navy squadron offshore. There were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

25 Sept 1757 // 58-gun 4th-rate HMS Tilbury was lost when a British squadron blockading Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, was struck by a violent storm. She dropped anchor, but her cables parted and she was driven onto rocks at Cape Breton, She broke up and sank with 121 men lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Le HMS Agamemnon, le plus récent sous-marin d’attaque de la #RoyalNavy, quitte le chantier de construction avec 4 ans de retard via @portailsousmarin.bsky.social www.corlobe.info/article55432...

Formação de bombardeiros torpedeiros Fairey Albacore do Esquadrão Aeronaval 820 da Royal Navy, 1942

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#booklaunch The proof of my latest novel is here. Due for launch 16 Oct, it tells the tale of the #royalnavy port and beach clearance parties, inc on D-Day and Ian Fleming's intelligence #commandos in #WW2. #mustread

Nobody realised MMS.70 had been sunk. Her survivors were left clinging to wreckage for 12 hours until a local fishing boat rescued them. All the officers involved were heavily criticised, and were informed that they had 'incurred the Commander-in-Chief's displeasure'. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1942 // Destroyer HMS Somali, torpedoed and badly damaged off Labrador on 20 September by U-boat U.703, sank in bad weather between Greenland and the Faroes while under tow. Only 35 were saved from Somali's reduced crew of 80. (Imperial War Museum FL 19179) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1940 // Former 74-gun HMS Wellesley, built 1815 and latterly (as TS Cornwall) a training ship at Wellesley Nautical School, Gravesend, was bombed and sunk at her moorings during a German air raid. She was the last RN ship of the line to be lost to enemy action. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1922 // Destroyer HMS Speedy sank in the Sea of Marmara after colliding with a Turkish steamer, the Kara Bigha. Ten of her crew lost their lives. Her Gunner, the officer of the watch, was found to have been negligent and was reprimanded and dismissed his ship. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1919 // During the British withdrawal from Murmansk, HM Hospital Ships Edinburgh Castle and Lord Morton were abandoned as unfit to make the journey back to Great Britain. They were stripped of everything removable that was worth salvaging and then sunk in deep water. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory