ML.352, which had picked up survivors from other boats while withdrawing after failing to find her own landing site, was set ablaze by repeated air attacks, during which two men were killed, and was abandoned. The survivors were picked up by Italian torpedo boat Castore. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

14 Sept 1942 // Destroyer HMS Zulu was sunk by Italian air attack with 39 men killed or missing during Operation Agreement, a commando raid on Tobruk. She had earlier assisted sister ship HMS Sikh, sunk the same day in the same disastrous operation. (IWM FL 21966). #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Sept 1942 // Destroyer HMS Sikh was sunk with 115 dead by German and Italian shore batteries and air attack during Operation Agreement, a commando raid on Tobruk. Her sister ship HMS Zulu was sunk soon afterwards. The operation was a complete failure. (IWM FL 10512) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Sept 1942 // Light (anti-aircraft) cruiser HMS Coventry was abandoned and scuttled off south-west Crete after suffering heavy damage and being set on fire by German air attack. 63 (some sources say 64) of her crew were lost. (Imperial War Museum FL 5186 and HU 89667) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Sept 1775 // 6-gun schooner HMS Placentia, having suffered badly in a storm overnight on 13/14 September, with heavy damage and two men lost overboard, was abandoned and left to founder off Cape Race, Newfoundland. Her surviving crew were taken off by a merchant vessel. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Sources that claim HMS Happy was lost with all hands are not correct: 'the people, and great part of the ship's stores are saved' (Newcastle Chronicle, 27 September 1766). At court martial on 8 November 1766 in Portsmouth her captain and officers were cleared of all blame. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

14 Sept 1762 // In August 1762 British forces captured Havana, Cuba. 70-gun HMS Stirling Castle took part in that operation, but was afterwards found to be so unseaworthy that on 14 September 1762 she was stripped of everything salvageable, run aground, and abandoned. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The court martial took a dim view of the Tiger having taken no part in the fighting. Her captain, Henry Tottendale, was found guilty of failing to assist the Betty, and an example was made of him: he was dismissed the service, fined £500, and imprisoned for seven years. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Caças Blackburn Roc do Esquadrão 759 da Royal Navy, sobrevoando a Estação Aeronaval Eastleigh, 1940

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13 Sept 1916 // HM Trawler Loch Garry, a net barrier tender based in Orkney, sank at Kirkwall at around 1:15am after her anchor cable parted in a gale and she was swamped by the waves. Eight men were lost. The only survivor was the skipper's 16-year-old son. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

13 Sept 1780 // 18-gun ship sloop HMS Rover was captured by French 40-gun frigate Junon after a chase which began in the evening of 12 September and lasted until 1pm on the following day when, after having masts and rigging damaged in a running fight, the Rover surrendered. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

13 Sept 1709 (O.S.) // After a chase lasting several days, with her crew resorting to sweeps on several occasions, 10-gun sloop HMS Success surrendered to a group of French privateers south of the Isles of Scilly upon receiving a broadside and a volley of small arms. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

In Sep 1914 Britain deployed armoured cars to France and Belgium, but they weren't an army invention! #WW1 #royalnavy #aviation
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Following the battle her crew struggled to keep her afloat, but by 11 September it was clear that she could not be saved. Abandoned and set on fire, HMS Terrible blew up and sank on 12 September, the only British ship lost as a result of the Battle of the Chesapeake. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1941 // HM Tug Taikoo struck an Italian mine in the Dahlak Islands, Red Sea, at about 7pm. She sank leaving men in the water, who spent a night clinging to wreckage before reaching Hermil island at daylight. Six men were eventually rescued from the island. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

He had also left the bridge without providing for another officer of the watch, and ordered an inappropriate increase in speed just before the tug struck. He was severely reprimanded, his commission was cancelled, and he was banned from serving in the Navy again. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1918 // Armed Boarding Steamer HMS Sarnia was torpedoed off Rosetta by U.165 while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said, and sank very quickly. Her crew survived on rafts and floats for two days before rescue came, but no lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1917 // HM Trawler Asia, escorting a convoy into Lerwick in Shetland, sank off Kirkabister after detonating a mine. There was a large explosion amidships followed by another, probably one of her depth charges, and she sank immediately with the loss of six men. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

All that could be salvaged was removed from the sloop, and she was abandoned. Her loss was blamed on negligent navigation: Commander Hubert Grenfell was severely reprimanded and dismissed his ship, and the navigating officers and officer of the watch were also reprimanded. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1810 // 10-gun cutter HMS Alban was captured off Læsø Island in the Kattegat by Danish gunboats which overhauled and surrounded her in a calm. After a 4-hour battle Alban surrendered, severely damaged and with two dead including her commander, Lt Samuel Thomas. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory