20 Sept 1914 // Light cruiser HMS Pegasus was sunk in Zanzibar harbour by gunfire from German light cruiser Königsberg. Pegasus was having her engines repaired and was immobilised when she came under attack. 38 of her 224 crew were lost. (Imperial War Museum Q 75404) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW1

20 Sept 1779 // During the French siege of Savannah, Georgia, armed ship HMS Savannah, newly bought into naval service and still being fitted out, was sunk as a defensive blockship in the river. HMS Rose, a very decayed former 6th-rate, was expended in the same way. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

When the privateer, a 6-gun schooner, caught up and fired, the cutter, armed only with swivel guns and unable to resist, surrendered. She was not a very worthwhile prize for the privateer however, as she was carrying only the despatches, and they had been thrown overboard. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

20 Sept 1710 (O.S.) // 28-gun 5th-rate HMS Terrible was captured off Cape St Maria, Portugal, by the French 36-gun ship Faucon. She surrendered after a battle lasting an hour which left her with four dead, sixteen wounded, and her rigging and sails in tatters. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Rather surprisingly Henry Wickham of the Diamond received the same harsh sentence. He was found guilty of 'want of conduct'. The court apparently convinced itself that he could have done more to save his ship and to defend the convoy, although it is hard to see how. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

La construction des nouveaux sous-marins britanniques #royalnavy devrait commencer l’an prochain via @portailsousmarin.bsky.social www.corlobe.info/article55405...

Royal Navy pilot, 31, was killed in helicopter crash after his commander accidentally turned the engines off when flying over the English Channel, inquiry finds

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Learn more of a courageous, but little-known outfit who played a vital role in the defence of #Gibraltar during #WW2. #royalnavy
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19 Sept 1943 // Minesweeper BYMS.2019 sank with four men killed after detonating a mine during minesweeping operations in the Gulf of Taranto. She sank in the harbour at Crotone after being towed in by HMS Poole, which also took off her survivors. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

19 Sept 1942 // HM Trawler Pentland Firth, on loan to the United States to strengthen anti-submarine patrols on the American east coast, was rammed and sunk at 02:00 off Sandy Hook by minesweeper USS Chaffinch, which mistook her for a U-boat. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

At 03:30 the U-boat torpedoed and sank the stern section. 14 of the 44 crew were lost. The survivors were rescued by the Portuguese after an air and sea search. They were well looked after in Portugal and, rather than being interned, were quickly returned home. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

19 Sept 1700 (O.S.) // 50-gun HMS Carlisle was destroyed in an accidental explosion in the Downs. There were just eight survivors from 132 men on board (her captain, Francis Dove, happened to be on shore and survived). A spill of gunpowder was thought to be the cause. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

19 Sept 1673 (O.S.) // 72-gun HMS Fairfax ran aground in the Thames Estuary near Grays. She was refloated but was so badly damaged that she was hulked. Her captain was not on board at the time, and was dismissed his ship for improperly absenting himself from his command. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

19 Sept 1662 (O.S.) // 32-gun HMS Satisfaction was wrecked on the Dutch coast near Helvoetsluis with 30 lives lost. Samuel Pepys noted in his Diary, 4 Oct 1662, 'the miscarriage of the Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence of the pilott'. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Here's the British air-defence destroyer HMS Dauntless #RoyalNavy last week, in Plymouth Sound, heading for Devonport Naval Base. A video by Stephen Jagger for Warships IFR magazine. Loving #warship with contrasting yacht and dinghies busy on the water & fields above Jennycliff in the background.

18 Sept 1943 // HMS X.8, one of a group of midget submarines sent to attack German warships in the fjords of Norway, was scuttled 180 miles north of Tromsø after being damaged by the detonation of a faulty explosive charge which had been jettisoned. No casualties. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

18 Sept 1942 // Submarine HMS Talisman failed to complete her passage from Gibraltar to Malta and was reported missing, fate unknown. She may have struck a mine or been sunk by Italian warships. Talisman was lost with all hands: 62 men. (Imperial War Museum A 7823) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

18 Sept 1917 // Special Service Vessel HMS Glenfoyle, a former collier in use as a decoy ship under the alias Stonecrop, was torpedoed and sunk by U.43 south-west of Ireland. 18 of her crew were lost, 13 men dying of exposure in boats and rafts before rescue came. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

18 Sept 1917 // Destroyer HMS Contest was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat (either UB.32 or U.106) in the Western Approaches while on convoy duty. She was assisting torpedo-damaged steamer SS City of Lincoln when attacked. 35 of her crew died. (IWM Q 75127). #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

18 Sept 1915 // HM Trawler Lydian, a Milford Haven boat in naval service as a patrol vessel, struck a mine in St Margaret's Bay, Kent, and sank with the loss of eight men from her crew of ten. The mine had probably been laid a few days earlier by U-boat UC.6. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory