We were inspired to go after it.'Four decades before, HMS Edinburgh had just escorted a convoy from Scotland to Murmansk and Captain Hugh Faulkner was impatient to get the light battle cruiser back to sea when Rear Admiral Stuart Bonham Carter arrived on board with secret orders.Faulkner was ...
Such areas of maritime impacts can be lines drawn on charts, place names, isolated ship- wreck sites, or expansive yet connected landscapes, such as sea battles and convoy routes of World War II, which left thousands of shipwrecks and aircraft wrecked on the seabed beneath the battlefields ...
class cruiser- the designs were in ten tionally very similar) was a constant threat to Allied convoys bound for Murmansk. Considerable Royal Navy resources had to be tied down on the chance that the powerful ba ttleship migh t make a strike. Right: The Tirpitz in Kaafjord in March 1944...
On the twelfth of November 197 5, articles in the Swedish press appeared saying that the wreck of a Soviet target ship was found abandoned in Swedish territorial waters off of Gotlund. The Soviets apologized shortly thereafter and re-trieved the hulk -saying it had been used for target pract...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the final part of my rendition of the great naval tragedy in three acts involving the German Battleship Bismarck. The first part was the sinking of the legendary and graceful pride of the Royal Navy, the Battle Cruiser Hood. The second part was the...
Toveysent the pride of the Royal Navy, the“Mighty” HMS Hoodand the brand newKing George V ClassbattleshipHMS Prince of Walesand four destroyers to join the heavy cruisersHMS NorfolkandHMS Suffolkunder the command ofRear Admiral Frederick Wake Walkerto Guard the Denmark Strait, which Lütjens ...