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1796: HMS Southampton and her crew, on blockade duty off Toulon, were responsible for one of the most spectacular captures of an enemy vessel, against all odds, in the Age of Fighting Sail. Click: https://t.co/ieKF8BZEgw #RoyalNavy #MaritimeHistory #18thcentury #Napoleonic
Il #24maggio 1941 al largo di Siracusa il sommergibile britannico HMS Upholder affonda con due siluri il transatlantico #ConteRosso, in guerra utilizzato come piroscafo sulla rotta verso l’Africa Settentrionale: colerà a picco in 10 minuti, 1297 morti, di cui solo 239 recuperati.
HMS Vanguard shares a VA with Yuuki Otokura from Idolmaster cinderella girls, Lisa Imai from Bang Dream!!, and Shiho Hinomori from Project Sekai! I can't wait to hear her voice in-game! Congrats Yuki Nakashima!! 💟
"The cutting out of ex HMS Hermione, 24 October 1799"
The capture of the ‘Hermione’ Spanish frigate of 44 guns, 392 men by Captain E. Hamilton of His Majesty’s ship ‘Surprise’ of 24 guns’.
Artist - Nicholas Pocock
©️ National Maritime Museum
Watercolour of HMS Wellesley (1815), a three-masted, 74-gun ship of the line sailing along a rocky coastline before a good wind.
Painting by unknown artist, 1841.
NMM, Greenwich, London (ID: PAD6107)
Picture of the Day: F E Musin (1820-1888) "HMS Erebus in the Ice" (1846) @NMMGreenwich Franklin's ill fated last expedition sailed from Greenhithe in Kent on this day in 1845. All 129 men died attempting to navigate and chart the North West Passage.
We are proud to commemorate 40 years since the #Falklands conflict with #stamps depicting some of the memorials for those who lost their lives, along with HMS Ardent (pictured), one of four Royal Navy ships sunk during the conflict
great art from Christophe Gibelin, showing the Sea Vixen "Flower Power" of 899 Naval Air Squadron
This was a very temporary name - some aircraft were "defaced" as the squadron was preparing to leave HMS Eagle ahead of her decommissioning in Jan 1972
(https://t.co/KF3c7Cx3JL)
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