10 Oct 1944 // HM Motor Gunboat 663 struck a mine while returning to her base at Vis from a night patrol, and sank with three men lost. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1942 // Submarine HMS Unique disappeared with all 34 crew in the Bay of Biscay on or around this date, cause unknown: possibly lost in an accident or sunk by German depth-charging, although her sinking was not claimed by Germany. (Imperial War Museum FL 20432) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1917 // HM Trawler Waltham, a Grimsby boat in naval service as a minesweeper, disappeared with all hands (13 men) south of the Isle of Man, cause of loss unknown: the Admiralty presumed she had been torpedoed by a U-boat, but she may have struck a mine. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1917 // Convoy escort ship HMS Bostonian was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U.53 while marshalling her USA-GB convoy off Start Point. Two torpedoes hit her on the starboard side at 5.22pm and she sank very quickly. Four men were lost and 105 were rescued. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1814 // 14-gun schooner HMS Racer (formerly American privateer Independence, captured 1812) was wrecked on Walker's Cay in The Bahamas when a strong current drove her off course. Her stores were salvaged and all her crew survived to be rescued a few days later. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

32 people were rescued, including Lt Lowley's 13-year-old son. Lt Lowley drowned, as did the pilot, seven seamen, three women, and a child. The Master survived to give his version of events to the court martial. The cutter was raised a few days later and returned to service. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1783 // HMS Angelica, a hired sloop armed with swivel guns and used to supply British outposts on Lake Erie, ran aground a few miles east of the Cuyahoga River. All her stores were saved but she was abandoned as a wreck. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1781 // 28-gun 6th-rate HMS Guadeloupe was scuttled in the York River during the Siege of Yorktown. The British hoped to raise her at a later date but in the event it was the French who salvaged her and she was commissioned into the French Navy as Le Guadeloupe. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1781 // 44-gun 5th-rate HMS Charon, moored in the York River during the Siege of Yorktown with her guns sent ashore to aid the garrison, was fired on by the French and set on fire. She drifted, setting fire to other ships, then burned to the waterline and sank. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The French ships were the Mignonne (28 guns) and the Bizarre (60 guns). Far outgunned, and with a damaged mainmast, the Winchelsea could offer little resistance and surrendered after a brief exchange of fire. The French went on to capture 34 ships of the convoy. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1742 (O.S.) // 14-gun sloop HMS Grampus disappeared with all hands off Guernsey during a gale. She was presumed to have foundered in the bad weather. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

HMS Chester was attacked by the 54-gun Jason and then by l'Amazone, 40 guns, which finally boarded and captured her. HMS Ruby held her own against Le Mars (54 guns) and Le Maure (50 guns) but other French ships joined the action and she was taken by boarding. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1706 (O.S.) // 4-gun bomb vessel HMS Comet was chased by three large French privateers off Dunkirk and surrendered to 26-gun Le Don du St Esprit after a brief skirmish. During the exchange of fire her captain, Master & Commander Francis Gregory, was mortally wounded. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

10 Oct 1705 (O.S.) // HMS Flamborough, a 24-gun 6th-rate stationed at Gibraltar, encountered the French 54-gun ship Jason off Cape Spartel and was captured after a 45-minute battle. The Flamborough was so badly damaged that she was scuttled by her captors. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

🗓️ #OTD in 1944 – COPP 10’s Nick Carter (📸 from IWM Docs.7063) and another unknown rating help Partisans and artillery land on Mljet island (📸 Bosko Bunusevac/Adobe Stock) as German forces continue to be 'encouraged' to withdraw. Few details of this op are known. #NavalHistory

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This week’s feature is on the last naval gun battle of WW2 in the Malacca Straits between the Royal Navy and Japan.

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As with the Mogami shown below, the text on the right reads: ‘10 October, Meiji 41 (1908), Kasuga (Mogami)’.
However, whilst it appears to be the same person’s handwriting, it seems unlikely that entries for Yokosuka and Sasebo were made on the same day.
It must have been added later.
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Photo of the Day

Churchill coming up in the lift to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS.

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