SBS - Limpit Mine Removal - Palastine
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Haifa Period/ Conflict: Palastine Mandate Year: 1948 Date/s: 19 In 1946, the SBS, whether of Commando or...
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Si Biggs
Dec 23, 20231 min read
SBS - Raid to Capture Taliban Commander
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Alinger Valley, Laghman Province Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2013 Date/s: 23...
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Si Biggs
Nov 15, 20231 min read
SBS seize Bagram Air Base
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Bagram Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2001 Date/s: 15 November 2001 During the US-led...
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Si Biggs
Sep 10, 20232 min read
Operation Barras - Hostage Rescue Sierra Leone
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Sierra Leone Period/ Conflict: Sierra Leone Civil War Year: 2000 Date/s: 10 September 2000 In September...
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Si Biggs
Mar 20, 20233 min read
Royal Marines - Operation Telic
Starting on 20th March 2003, 40 and 42 Commando moved into Southern Iraq to secure the oil fields and prevent Saddam from setting them on...
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Si Biggs
Mar 11, 20233 min read
Lt George Davies - Det 385
After Operation DEFRAUD in the Burmese jungle in 1945 the patrol leader, Major ER Breen, wrote in the debrief “I managed to collect a...
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Si Biggs
Mar 8, 20232 min read
HMS Mount Stewart and the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...
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Si Biggs
Sep 16, 20225 min read
Operation Anglo - SBS Raid on Italian Airfield
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Kalathos, Rhodes Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 31 August–18 September 1942 (The...
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Si Biggs
Jun 29, 20223 min read
Hunting the Exocet
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Europe and Gibraltar Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: June 1982 The French AM 39...
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Si Biggs
May 18, 20221 min read
Bomb Threat on the QE II - Parachuted into the Atlantic
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: North Atlantic Period/ Conflict: 1970's Year: 1972 Date/s: 18 May 1972 On 17 May 1972, while traveling...
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Si Biggs
May 12, 20222 min read
Oil Safe - Protecting Britains Oil from Terrorist Attack
The threat of terrorist both home grown and international against the North Sea Oil Instillations was brought to the attention of the...
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Si Biggs
May 9, 20224 min read
SBS - The first air-to-ship storming of a hostile vessel in military history
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 9 May 1982 Her Majesty's...
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Si Biggs
Apr 26, 20222 min read
SBS sail South on HMS Conqueror
In response to the invasion the British dispatched a Taskforce to recapture them under the codename Operation CORPORATE. Visibly the...
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Si Biggs
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Operation Maude - Cutting Iraq's Communications Cable
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: S of Baghdad Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1991 Date/s: 23 January 1991. Led by Lt...
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Si Biggs
Jan 14, 20223 min read
Colonel David Mitchell 2 SBS - Borneo
Colonel David Mitchell Royal Marines commanded No 2 Special Boat Section in the Far East, and pioneered new technique of clandestine...
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Si Biggs
Sep 13, 20214 min read
Operation Sunbeam A - Limpet Attack in the Agean
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Portolago Bay Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18th June 1944 Leros island’s Portolago...
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Si Biggs
Aug 20, 20212 min read
Silent Warriors - The Special Boat Service in WW2
From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain's SBS-or Special Boat Service - was the world's...
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Si Biggs
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Steph Stephens SBS - Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Haji Wakil village, Bahram Chah Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Year: 2010 Date/s: 1st...
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Si Biggs
Jun 2, 20212 min read
Sgt Kiwi Hunt SBS Memorial
HUNT, Ian Nicholas Rank: Sergeant Regiment/Corps: Royal Marines Number: P030085W Born: Tuesday, December 1, 1953 Died : Wednesday, June...
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Si Biggs
May 26, 20212 min read
NGS in Fox Bay - SBS and 148 Bty
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Knob Island, Fox Bay Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 26 May 1982 SBS Operations -...
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