precision is necessary in defining the products created. Communications with others must be clear and unambiguous. An internationally recognised terminology has grown up over the years to aid this definition. Some of the terms will be unfamiliar to those coming new to shipping. Others will be famil...
Navy can see past it and see its Naval sacrifice on its own ships, and those of SAN personnel on Royal Navy ships and finally just institute an ‘All at Sea’ Naval Memorial Parade in Remembrance or erect a full Naval memorial (similar to the erected by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth)?
The day after he arrives in Portsmouth, HMS Hood is sunk by the German ship, the Bismarck, with the loss of 1415 men. They became known as the Lucky 13. He passes the selection board and trains at Lancing College and King Alfred, Brighton and passes out as a Sub- Lieutenant of the ...
Signed by George White [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1779-1793]. 1783 - HMS Pallas, one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy, was burnt to avoid capture HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates ...