The German’s designation for this… Continue reading British Testing of the Praga TNH-P 8-ton Tank in 1938Arthur Janser’s 500-ton Battleship and Grasshopper Tanks United Kingdom (1940) Land Battleship and Leaping Tank – None Built The United Kingdom declared war on Germany following its...
The visit came during one of the worst periods in war that had already battered British sea power. German U-boat technology was a devastating success; fully one-fifth of Britain’s merchant ships, ferrying supplies to the British Isles, had been sunk by the end of 1916. The ne...
Located north of Virgin Gorda, Anegada is infamous for rocky and coral-strewn shores that have sunk countless ships in the island's history. As such, Anegada attracts many divers and snorkelers. Remote beaches, including Cow Wreck Beach, Flash of Beauty, Bones Bight and Windlass Bight, are st...
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The founding father:Before HMS Lighting, “spar torpedo boat” was a familiar term to all admiralties. These small launched could pack indeed a deadly punch, but their used was daring to the absurd, with as many risks for the pilot and crew than for the target ship. In “special operatio...
One tactic employed by several U-boat commanders was to take their crews inside the columns of the convoy to attack, evading detection from sonar, which projected outward, not under. Rations were on a countdown clock of months and weeks as supply ships were ...
ship. When World War II broke out, the ship was recommissioned to conduct anti-submarine patrols in the North Sea. After a U-boat sunk carrier Courageous, Hermes was relocated to the South Atlantic, where her aircraft took part in the Dakar raid, aimed at sinking battleship Richelieu—...
Speaking of depth charges, it got me thinking about a relative, my great grandmothers husband who was stepfather to my grandad. He was in the Royal Navy in WW2 and was killed, on HMS Harvester which was sunk in the mid Atlantic during 1943 by a German Submarine in the events described ...
sunk by two German planes that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just as swiftly, the attacker’s identity never known. Another small fishing vessel, theHolmsteinn, happened to sail upon a U-boat that had surfaced to meet with a nearby supply ship. The U-boat, in order not ...
but the intervention of the German patrol cruisers saved the destroyers. However, the presence of the British battle cruisers predetermined the outcome of the battle, by the end of which, at 2 pm, the German Navy had seen three light cruisers and one destroyer sunk; two more light cruisers ...