ww2dbaseRoyal Sovereign was commissioned during WW1, but did not see combat. At the onset of the European War during WW2, she was with the Home Fleet. By mid-1940, she was transferred to the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet. On 18 Jul 1940, she participated at the Battle of Calabria, whe...
Denmark has been already neutral (see the Danish Navy in WW1), despite having a strategic position, for the same reasons that in 1939. Pressures have been high on both sides, ships had been sunk by error and minefields laid down, but merchant traffic went on. Denmark had the uncomfortable...
In Jul and Sep 1940, she participated in attacks on the Vichy-French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir and Dakar, respectively. On 1 Aug, in between the western Africa actions, she escorted a convoy that delivered 12 Hurricane aircraft to Malta; her aircraft attacked the Italian base at Cagliari ...
Maine, was commissioned into the United States Navy,Cdr. Malcolm Everett Garrison, USN. Garrison would win the Navy Crosstwicewhile in command of Sand Lance and retire from the US Navy as a Rear Admiral.
When the ship was struck by a heavy bomb, which caused considerable damage to the ships structure, heavy flooding and loss of life, the damage Control Parties worked efficiently and calmly in limiting the danger and controlling the flooding. That they did so well, initially in darkness and ...
Royal Dutch Air Force/Navy
As the Navy List shows no appointments, family stories sketch this image: "James Gibson joined the RNVR as a rating and served with LCT (Landing Craft Tank). He was in a disastrous Russian convey in which only 5 ships survived. At some stage, he was taken off a ship while it was in...
Another factor: an army is generally more critical than a navy during a civil war, so calling it "The Royal Army" would have been considered symbolically dangerous to the authority of Parliament. The monarchy was useful as a symbolic figurehead for the empire, so ships of "The Royal Navy"...
Dept. of Defense government attorneys to confirm to us that an investigation directed at Shell in the USA had been initiated by the US Department of the Navy, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The whole strange affair may apparently still be rumbling on, perhaps towards a conclusion ...
Upon his return to Britain, Byng was court-martialed and condemned to death according to the twelfthArticle of War. He had failed “to do his utmost to take or destroy the enemy’s ships.” Following the execution of Byng, a new fighting spirit appea...