Merchant Navy

Oct 23, 20224 min read

Royal Marines WW2 DEMs Gunners

Following the valuable lessons of Defensively Armed Merchant Ships (DAMS) in the First World War, in 1919 the Cabinet approved an...

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Aug 26, 20192 min read

The Atlantic Memorial Campaign

HRH The Princess Royal becomes Patron of Battle of the Atlantic Memorial campaign The charity behind the campaign to build the UK’s...

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Dec 22, 20182 min read

Royal Marines Search for Survivors of the Lakonia Disaster 1963

Royal Marines Bandsman from HMS Centaur search for survivors from the Lakonia Disater which caught fire and sank north of Madeira on 22...

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Oct 9, 20173 min read

SS Volturno on Fire, North Atlantic October 1913 #OTD #MaritimeHistory

SS Volturno was an ocean liner that burned and sank in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the...

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Oct 3, 20172 min read

Troopship Queen Mary cuts HMS Curacoa in half 337 Men lost #militaryhistory #OTD

The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...

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Sep 21, 20172 min read

Leo Gradwell DSC RNVR against orders, led three merchant ships from the disaster of Convoy PQ 17 int

Leo Gradwell DSC was a British barrister, a magistrate and a Second World War Royal Navy volunteer, who in July 1942 against orders, led...

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