Great podcast episode; fast forward to ca. 35:00 for Peter Moore Writer talking about Thomas Cochrane
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #books
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@thoscochrane.bsky.socialGreat podcast episode; fast forward to ca. 35:00 for Peter Moore Writer talking about Thomas Cochrane
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #books
@dougiecoullpix.bsky.socialToday’s departure 😊
@hinzelmann.bsky.socialHMS Dauntless, leaving Devonport UK
21/9/2026
St Mary's and St Julian's, Maker, Cornwall on skyline
Torpoint Ferry in foreground
image: Gemzies UK
@shaunlewis1805.bsky.social#booklaunch 16 Oct 26. A #ww2 thriller about mine and port clearance and the march of Ian Fleming's intelligence commandos across Germany in 1945. Pre-order now. #mustread #royalnavy
www.amazon.co.uk/He-Who-Would...
@osint-mirrors.bsky.socialSource: @defencegeek on X
RT @ScotlandDX: Royal Navy Vanguard class submarine passing Gourock today inbound for Coulport #RoyalNavy #Navy #submarines #shipping
@richardgough.bsky.socialWorth watching this recent interview with Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Steve Moorhouse A particularly clear explanation of where the Royal Navy is heading with the Hybrid Navy.
#RoyalNavy #HybridNavy #AutonomousSystems #MaritimeDefence #FutureNavy
@sealionpress.co.ukTom Anderson's series on #Naval #History and the origins of #ship #terminology continues with the #Napoleonic era of #Nelson and #Cochrane in reality, #Aubrey and #Hornblower in #fiction. #MilitaryHistory #Navy #RoyalNavy www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social21 Sept 1942 // Tug HMS St Olaves and the barge she was towing were driven ashore and wrecked in a gale at Duncansby Head, Scotland. No lives were lost: 4 men from the barge reached shore safely, and the 31 remaining crew from tug and barge were saved by the Wick lifeboat. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social21 Sept 1782 // 74-gun 3rd-rate HMS Ramillies was abandoned and burnt after being heavily damaged by a storm off Newfoundland while escorting a convoy. A merchant ship rescued the crew, the Ramillies blowing up shortly after they had left. (Image: National Maritime Museum) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.socialThe privateer then requested that the Hope surrender. With no guns able to bear, one of his officers taken captive, and a second privateer coming up, Hindman considered resistance useless and surrendered, a decision for which he was subsequently reprimanded at court martial. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.socialMead became angry and shook the boy. In the scuffle the bottle fell and broke, the boy's lamp followed it, and within seconds a fire, fed by the rum casks in the hold, was blazing out of control. The crew rapidly took to the boats; Mead died in the fire, but Bianco survived. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social21 Sept 1710 (O.S.) // 24-gun 6th-rate HMS Fame was carrying despatches from Port Mahon to Barcelona when chased by three French warships, Toulouse (56 guns), Vestale (40 guns) and Méduse (30 guns). Faced with such overwhelming force, HMS Fame surrendered when overtaken. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social21 Sept 1703 (O.S.) // 6th-rate HMS Squirrel was captured off Rye by five French privateers. They had approached under Dutch colours and her commander, Gilbert Talbot, had not readied for action until far too late. The court martial sentenced him to a fine and imprisonment. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social21 Sept 1673 (O.S.) // 2-gun sloop HMS Cutter was wrecked near Sandown Castle after a gale drove her from her moorings at Deal. No lives were lost. (The name 'cutter' was not as potentially confusing at this date as it might have been later. However, it was not used again.) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@dougiecoullpix.bsky.socialToday’s efforts.
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social20 Sept 1976 // Minesweeper HMS Fittleton sank after colliding with frigate HMS Mermaid during mail transfer in the North Sea, with the loss of 12 men, mostly from the RN Reserve. (Memorial window at HMS President: War Memorials Online, photograph by Anthony Bradbury) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social20 Sept 1943 // Corvette HMS Polyanthus was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U.952 south-east of Greenland while escort a convoy. 84 of her 85 crew lost their lives. The only survivor died three days later when the ship that rescued him, HMS Itchen, was sunk. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social20 Sept 1943 // Frigate HMS Lagan, in mid-Atlantic escorting a Liverpool to North America convoy, was hit by a torpedo fired by U.270 which wrecked her stern and killed 29 men. Towed into the Mersey, she was written off as a total loss. (Imperial War Museum A 14733) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social20 Sept 1942 // Minesweeper HMS Leda was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.435 while with a Russia-Scotland convoy west of Spitsbergen. 47 of 134 on board died, including a number of merchant seamen rescued from earlier sinkings who were being brought home. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social20 Sept 1941 // HM Trawler Marconi was sunk in a collision with another Admiralty trawler, the Lord Beaconsfield, off Harwich. There were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2