The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under...

Flight Lieutenant Charles Herbert Collet DSO (4 February 1888 – 19 August 1915) who led the first British air raid of the war was a...

18th September 1955 Rockall was annexed by the British Crown when Lieutenant-Commander Desmond Scott RN, Sergeant Brian Peel RM, Corporal...

HRH The Princess Royal becomes Patron of Battle of the Atlantic Memorial campaign The charity behind the campaign to build the UK’s...

The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...

Ronald Cuthbert Hay, DSO, DSC & Bar (4 October 1916 – 22 November 2001) was a British naval aviator and the only Royal Marine fighter...

22nd August 1940 Captain Oliver Patch RM flew in a flight of 3 swordfish to sink 4 Italian ships with 3 torpedoes in Bomba Bay. In July...

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement on 24 May 1941 in the Second World War, between ships of the Royal Navy and the...

HMS Marlborough to the rescue HMS Marlborough was a veteran of Jutland was an Iron Duke-class battleship, she had a crew of 995 officers...

Royal Marines Bandsman from HMS Centaur search for survivors from the Lakonia Disater which caught fire and sank north of Madeira on 22...

During the Battle of the River Plate 15 Marines lost their lives mostly manning turrets, HMS Exeter 10 Marines killed, HMS Ajax 5 Marines...

Throughout the Second World War, LCAs were used for landing Allied forces in almost every Commando operation, major and minor, in the...

The Battle of the River Plate took place on December 13th 1939. The battle in the South Atlantic was the first major naval battle of...

Ajax, Ontario, Canada was named after HMS Ajax after the Battle of the River Plate and the streets are named after every member of the...

The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...

Leo Gradwell DSC was a British barrister, a magistrate and a Second World War Royal Navy volunteer, who in July 1942 against orders, led...

In early September 1942 Edward Young was the First Officer on HMS Saracen as she made her way from Britain via Gibraltar to Malta....

Britain’s largest ever warship the HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived at her home port for the first time. Crowds lined the seafront to...

Operation Pedestal was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta...

John Ledyard was a writer of the first great travel story by an American to be published in the United States John Ledyard was born in...