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

12 Sept 1808 // 20-gun HMS Laurel was captured off Mauritius by French 40-gun frigate Cannonière after a lengthy battle. The Laurel inflicted serious damage on her opponent but the larger ship's heavy broadside wrecked her masts and rigging, forcing her to surrender. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1782 // 14-gun brig sloop HMS Racoon encountered two French frigates, the 40-gun Aigle and the 32-gun Gloire, off the Delaware Capes, and surrendered after a short chase. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

12 Sept 1782 // Cutter HMS Duke was stationed off Waterford, ordered to press men off passing ships for the Navy, when French 16-gun privateer La Sophie appeared and quickly cut her off from the shore. Unable to escape, the Duke surrendered after a short gun battle. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The William & Mary, with crew still aboard, was following the Abram's Offering in order to be sent in after her, but on seeing boats coming out from shore her captain ordered the fuses lit and the crew to withdraw. As a result she exploded too soon and caused no damage. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Caças Fairey Firefly, do Esquadrão 1771 da Royal Navy, a bordo do HMS Implacable, 1944

#aviação #militar #historia #WWII #AviaçãoDeCaça #RoyalNavy #Firefly

Images (both Library of Congress): 'Com. MacDonough's victory on Lake Champlain Sept. 11th 1814', engraving, William Hoogland after Michele Felice Cornè (Boston, 1815); 'M'Donough's victy. on Lake Champlain', hand-coloured lithograph, N. Currier (New York, c.1846). [6/6] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

11 Sept 1813 // Storeship HMS Woolwich (launched as a 44-gun frigate in 1785) ran aground and was wrecked off Barbuda when a strong current drove her off course in a gale (Painting by Thomas Elliott showing HMS Woolwich under tow in Portsmouth 1795. Wikimedia Commons.) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

11 Sept 1812 // 16-gun brig sloop HMS Magnet, en route from Spithead to North America, was last seen on this date as she parted company from HMS San Domingo in the North Atlantic west of the Azores. It was presumed that she had foundered with all hands in bad weather. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

However, a change in the wind drove them back so that they were trapped inshore. HMS Richmond attempted to break out but was forced to surrender after her mainmast was shot through and her rigging cut up by accurate French fire. The Iris surrendered shortly afterwards.[2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The two ships then exchanged fire, with the British frigate suffering badly from the Junon's heavier broadside. She had suffered severe damage to her hull, lost all her masts, and had lost 14 killed and 32 wounded including her captain by the time she surrendered. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

They soon collided with another merchant ship, and the Quebec cut her cables and broke away, but was now very far inshore and in danger of grounding. She spread her foresail and tacked away from the shore, but then ran onto a submerged reef, broke in two, and sank. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

11 Sept 1751 (O.S.) // 24-gun 6th-rate HMS Fox arrived at Jamaica from Havana and anchored off Kingston just in time to be hit by a violent tropical storm, which drove her from her anchors onto rocks at Portland Point, where she was wrecked. All her crew were saved. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Cleasby was captured by the French and after an exchange of prisoners was returned to England. He was honourably acquitted and praised for his 'courage and conduct' by the court martial into the loss of the Sapphire. Her wreck is now an important archaeological site. [3/3] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

What's that on the horizon? Let's zoom in a bit #Cornwall #RoyalNavy

Interested in Cochrane? Then this is a MUST!

And don't forget to listen to the audio excerpt from A Dangerous Game recounting Cochrane's attack on the French fleet at Basque Roads in 1809!

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The sinking was attributed to a mine. Several more mines were found, some with time-delay fuses, laid by German torpedo boats as they withdrew from the harbour shortly before the British arrived. 49 of Abdiel's crew and 58 soldiers lost their lives. [3/3] (IWM FL 26) #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

There were 15 people on board including the government's academic advisor on the project, Prof A. C. Hardy of the University of Hull, and his assistant. Five men were lost as the drifter broke up but the others, including Hardy and his assistant, reached shore safely. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The enquiry found that the Oxley's lookouts did not notice the Triton, and failed to see her signals. Only when the flare was fired did they realise what was happening, but it was too late. They were attempting to signal back when the torpedo struck. [4/4] (IWM FL 3245) #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Sept 1917 // HM Trawler Loch Ard, an Aberdeen boat in naval service as a minesweeper, was sunk by a mine which exploded under her engine room as she and another trawler swept near Corton lightship off Lowestoft. She broke in two and sank with five lives lost. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory