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Johnstone's Victoria Cross. He was 31 years old, and a stoker in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.. On 9 August 1854 in the Baltic, Leading Stoker Johnstone and a Lieutenant (John Bythesea) from HMS Arrogant, landed on the island of Vårdö, Åland off Finland in order to intercept important despatches from the tsar which ...
William Lashly (25 December 1867 – 12 June 1940) was a Royal Navy seaman who served as lead stoker on both the Discovery expedition and the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal.
Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol. A Triomphant-class submarine (here, Vigilant). The submarines HMS Vanguard of the Royal Navy and Le Triomphant of the French Navy collided in the Atlantic Ocean in the night between 3–4 February 2009.
A Royal Navy board of inquiry was convened to investigate the crash, and British investigators flew to the US later in the week of the accident to interview Hanson and other involved people. [6] Lewis was "the first female Lynx helicopter aircrew" [14] and the first female pilot or observer to die while serving with the Royal Navy. [11] [14]
The Battle of May Island is the name given to the series of accidents that occurred during Operation E.C.1 in 1918. Named after the Isle of May, a nearby island in the Firth of Forth, the "battle" consisted of a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy vessels on their way from Rosyth, Scotland, to fleet exercises in the North Sea.
7 August – Steaming in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a 28-ship convoy, the U.S. armed cargo ship SS Jason sighted the U.S. Navy submarine USS O-6 behind the convoy, mistook her for an Imperial German Navy U-boat, and opened gunfire on her, firing eight rounds and scoring five hits at a range of 3,000 yards (2,700 m).
HMS Truculent was a British submarine of the third group of the T-class.She was built as P315 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 12 September 1942.She sank nine enemy vessels.
HMS Thetis (N25) was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, England on 1 June 1939. After being salvaged and repaired, the boat was recommissioned as HMS Thunderbolt in 1940. It served during the Second World War until being lost with all hands in the Mediterranean on 14 March 1943. [1]