On the stern of a Kaiserliche Marine König Class battleship, the calvary general & airship pioneer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

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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

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Japan started the war out of a need for oil and occupied the oil fields of Indonesia, but it was driven to such desperation after its oil tankers were sunk that it even attempted to extract gasoline from pine tree roots.

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