World War Two
Sea
These pages are updated as and when new information or images arrive.
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American Submarines - The war in the Pacific. |
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HMS Audacity. The Story of the Audacity and her "previous life" as the MV Hanover, a German cargo ship. Of her capture by HMS Dunedin. |
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Coastal Forces - Lecture notes. An insight into what went on in the Secret War in the English Channel. |
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Convoy PQ17. How decisions by those behind desks crucified the convoy and killed many many civilian lives. |
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Crests Of The Royal Navy. Ships of the Royal Navy in World War 2. If you have a crest of your Royal Naval Ship of WW2 send it to me for inclusion on this page? |
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Duncan Cameron Kennedy. A look at the life afloat of a ships Captain, who, in WW2, was Mentioned in Despatches for his heroism in a lifeboat. |
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HMS Fidelity. Special Operations Ship. How a small, insignificant, British built French freighter tried to change the course of the war. |
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The Hedgehog. Its inventor, Charles Goodeve, and how he got Churchill to accept it as a weapon against the U boat. Used with great effect by Capt Johnnie Walker. |
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HMS Hood. How the pride of the Royal Navy went to her doom with a shell straight through the deck into a magazine |
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MTB 755. |
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HMS Prince of Wales. Sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10th December 1941, 3 days after the attack on Pearl Harbour |
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HMS Punjabi. The tragedy of her sinking by Ken Tipper. |
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HMS Royal Oak. The sinking of the Battleship Royal Oak with some unique images sent to me by a forum friend. |
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Scharnhorst. The story of the Battle-Cruiser Scharnhorst and her death in the Battle of The North Cape. |
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SS Steuben. Like The Wilhelm Gustloff below, and by the same submarine, enormous loss of life ensued from the torpedoing of this refugee ship carrying German civilians and troops. |
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HMS Stork. Images of Wartime. Never before seen images taken by DA Bell, of HMS Stork. Thanks to Len Bell for these photographs. |
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HM Submarine Thetis. Sank on 1 June 1939 on her first sea trial on the River Mersey. How she was raised, renamed and fought on as HMS Thunderbolt. |
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Wilhelm Gustloff. A maritime disaster that by far eclipses events such as the Lusitania or the Athenia, the relatively unknown story of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine. |
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