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⚓ WWII Asia’s FORGOTTEN NAVIES! 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇦🇺🇹🇭🔥 #Shorts

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15 Oct 1944 // Naval water carrier Petronella, a requisitioned cargo vessel, was sunk by a mine off Cape Kalauri near Piraeus. She capsized and sank very quickly, and 25 men lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1944 // Motor launch ML.870 was sunk by a mine in the approaches to Piraeus, Greece, while assisting with minesweeping operations. Three of her crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1943 // Motor torpedo boat HM MTB.636 was sunk with seven men lost in a friendly fire incident between Elba and the Italian mainland, when she was fired on in error by MTB.658 during an engagement with German flak lighters in the early hours of the morning. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1940 // In the early morning aircraft were seen dropping what were assumed to be mines at the mouth of the Humber, and HM Drifter Mistletoe was sent out to warn local fishing vessels. On the way she hit a mine and sank with the loss of 4 of her 6 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1940 // HM Drifter Appletree sank off Oban after being run into by an RAF launch which suddenly appeared out of the darkness (it was after 8pm and the weather was bad), failed to respond to signals, and drove at high speed into her port side. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1940 // Submarine HMS Triad disappeared with all hands (52 men) in the Gulf of Taranto. Italian submarine Enrico Toti sank a British submarine on this day which was previously erroneously believed to be HMS Rainbow, but was almost certainly HMS Triad. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1918 // HM Submarine J.6 was sunk by Q-ship HMS Cymric in a friendly fire incident off Seahouses, Northumberland. In foggy conditions and poor light the Cymric mistook J.6 for a German submarine and sank her with gunfire. 15 of J.6's crew lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1917 // HM Drifter Active III, a Banff boat in naval service as a net barrier tender at Milford Haven, sank at 8.30am after hitting a mine as she formed up with other drifters and trawlers off Skokholm Island for a patrol. No survivors from her crew of ten. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1914 // Edgar-class cruiser HMS Hawke was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.9 in the North Sea off the Aberdeenshire coast. Struck by a single torpedo, she exploded, capsized, and quickly sank. 524 of her 594 crew were lost. (Imperial War Museum: Q 39034) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1781 // During the siege of Yorktown 24-gun 6th-rate HMS Fowey was scuttled in the York River and set on fire after having her guns and stores landed to assist the garrison. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

With her mainmast cut away she was carried along by the storm for three days, finally being driven ashore on Puerto Rico on the afternoon of 15 October. Using rafts, all her men except three came safely ashore, where they were taken as prisoners by the Spanish. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1711 (O.S.) // 72-gun 3rd-rate HMS Edgar was destroyed in an explosion at Spithead, with heavy loss of life. She had recently returned from Canada and was having her gunpowder shifted between magazines, and an accidental spillage may have caused the explosion. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

15 Oct 1703 (O.S.) // 12-gun bomb vessel HMS Serpent, under staysails alone after suffering damage to mainmast and sails while returning from Canada, was attacked by a 24-gun French privateer in the Western Approaches. She resisted fiercely but was forced to surrender. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Wood (accused at court martial of ignoring the advice of pilot and master) and the pilot (accused of negligence) were both imprisoned at Marshalsea, although the pilot protested that he had been engaged to navigate the Thames Estuary, not the Norfolk coast. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Tier VI Premium British 🇬🇧 Battleship 'DUKE OF YORK' #worldofwarships #worldofwarshipslegends #wargaming #royalnavy #playstation5

Les doutes s’accumulent sur le programme des frégates Type 31 de la #RoyalNavy via @portailsousmarin.bsky.social www.meretmarine.com/fr/defense/r...

Un navire de la flotte auxiliaire de la #RoyalNavy aurait procédé à des mises à l’eau de drones en baie de Douarnenez via @portailsousmarin.bsky.social www.ouest-france.fr/politique/de...

British Pre-Dreadnought Battleship #HMSSwiftsure (1903)
HMS Swiftsure was a pre-dreadnought #battleship of the #royalNavy. Originally ordered by Chile. She participated in the Dardanelles Campaign during WW1 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #maritimehistory