I didn’t want to infect a #NavalHistory discussion with a winged monstrosity, but dazzle can be used elsewhere…
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#OTD 24 October 1808 the Danish fortress at Christiansø island in the Baltic under the commandant Johan Henrik August von Kohl, beats off an attack by a Royal Navy squadron of 2 ships- of-line and 6 frigates.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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25 Oct 1941 // Minelayer HMS Latona was set on fire by German bombs off Bardia, Libya. She remained afloat for two hours and almost all on board were evacuated. When the fire reached her magazine she exploded. 20 crew and 7 soldiers died. (Imperial War Museum FL 14541) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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25 Oct 1760 // 10-gun brig HMS Williamson, based on Lake Ontario, began to leak while at anchor off Fort Niagara awaiting a wind to take her into the harbour. Heavily flooded, the brig was run ashore nearby. She was abandoned after her stores had been removed. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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But this week’s free to read goes into the namesakes of Austria’s dreadnoughts during #ww1
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What is behind the names of the Austrian Dreadnoughts?
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October 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Though several major warships escaped, none would emerge to give battle until the suicidal sortie of Yamato in April 1945. Losses to the U.S. Navy were relatively small, but the Japanese kamikaze attacks were a grim foretaste of what awaited them the following year.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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22 Oct 1941 // HM Trawler Alder (formerly Lord Davidson) ran onto rocks near Fraserburgh in poor weather and was abandoned as a wreck. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Eclipse had no time to lower boats. Her survivors were picked up by HMS Petard and other vessels. Image: 'The Sinking of HMS Eclipse' painted in 1967 by George Davy, an army officer who was a survivor of the sinking. [2/2] (Imperial War Museum: Art.IWM ART LD 6725) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This week’s podcast is up and running. It follows the career of the merchant U-boats Deutschland and Bremen during the First World War and their journeys to America
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The Deutschland sails
Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 22/10/2025 · 28m
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October 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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25 Oct 1801 // HMS Bonetta, ex French privateer Huit Amis (captured 1798), was wrecked on a reef south of Cuba with no loss of life. The court martial found that the officer of the watch had been asleep; he was fined, dismissed the Service, and imprisoned for two years. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Some #NavalHistory from Dread makes any day better (and certainly Trafalgar Day) 😊
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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23 Oct 1943 // Minesweeper HMS Cromarty, part of a minesweeping flotilla clearing moored contact mines in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, struck a mine which floated free immediately in front of her bows. She sank quickly with the loss of 20 men. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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22 Oct 1943 // Destroyer HMS Hurworth sank after striking a mine in the Aegean off the SE coast of Turkey. Greek destroyer Adrias had hit a mine and Hurworth hit another while going to her assistance. 113 of her crew lost their lives. (Imperial War Museum FL 10027) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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HMS Eagle and HMS Romney followed HMS Association onto the rocks, breaking up and sinking with no survivors from either ship. HMS Firebrand also struck, refloated, but was badly holed and sank with 24 survivors being rescued. Between 1500 and 2000 men died in total. [3/3] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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23 Oct 1943 // Light cruiser HMS Charybdis was torpedoed and sunk, with 462 dead from 571 crew, by German torpedo boats off Guernsey during the Battle of Sept-Îles, an ill-planned and ill-executed sweep against German coastal convoys. (Image: Imperial War Museum A 6739) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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22 Oct 1916 // HM Drifter Fame, a Whitby boat in #RoyalNavy service as a net barrier tender, was just entering Poole harbour for her first tour of duty when, in very poor weather, she ran aground and was wrecked on the Hook Sand. All seven members of her crew were rescued. #WW1 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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23 Oct 1916 // Sloop HMS Genista was sunk by German submarine U.57 while patrolling off the west coast of Ireland. She was hit by two torpedoes and sank very quickly: 73 men were lost, with 12 survivors on two rafts being rescued next day by light cruiser HMS Adventure. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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23 Oct 1706 (O.S.) // 4-gun ketch HMS Sarah was with HMS Prince George, for which she was serving as a tender, in the western Channel. She lost contact with the Prince George in poor weather and was captured without a fight by two French privateers off the Lizard. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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22 Oct 1915 // HM Trawler Scott, a Hull boat in #RoyalNavy service as a minesweeper, struck a German submarine-laid mine near the Tongue Light Vessel in the Thames Estuary and sank quickly with the loss of three members of her crew. #WW1 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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23 Oct 1971 // Minesweeper HMS Belton, serving in the Fisheries Protection Squadron, dragged her anchor in a gale at Lochmaddy, North Uist, and ran aground. She was declared a total loss and used for spares before being sold for scrap in 1974. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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In particular minelaying by the German auxiliary cruiser Meteor had provoked the #RoyalNavy into sending a force of minesweeping trawlers to the White Sea to aid the Russians. The Lord Denman was part of the force, and it was one of Meteor's mines that sank her. [2/2] #WW1 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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22 Oct 1941 // Oiler RFA Darkdale was torpedoed by U.68 in James Bay, St Helena. Hit at 1:42am, she burned until 5:30am when she exploded and sank. 41 men died. The wreck continued to leak oil until a cleaning operation which lasted from 2012 to 2015. #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #WW2 #NavalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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24 Oct 1809 // 16-gun brig-sloop HMS Glommen (captured from Denmark 1807, renamed Britomart 1808, returned to her original name 1809) was wrecked in a storm while lying in Carlisle Bay, Barbados. Her cables parted and she was blown across the bay. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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History will never be forgotten at the Naval Institute. Explore #NavalHistory magazine (at a 28% discount!), an immense photo archive, and compelling oral histories when you become a member. bit.ly/4gOOG5O #ReliveHistory #HistoryPreservation
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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