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...

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...

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...

Throughout the Second World War, LCAs were used for landing Allied forces in almost every Commando operation, major and minor, in the European theatre. They also saw service in North Africa and the Indian Ocean. The first four LCAs used in an opposed landing disembarked 120 French Foreign Legionnaires of the 13th Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) on the beach at Bjerkvik, 8 miles (13 km) above Narvik, on 13 May during the Norwegian Campaign, perhaps the last operational use of LCAs by

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 crew, including Biggs Drive, after my Grandfather. HMS Ajax Cdr Reginald Charles Biggs DSO, DSC, RN Cdr Reginald Charles Biggs DSO, DSC, RN Reginald joined the Royal Navy in January 1920 as a Boy 2 nd Class and immediately began his training onboard HMS Ganges. He attended gunnery school in 1933 and by May 17, 1935, he had risen to the rank o

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...

The Channel Dash or Unternehmen Zerberus (Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during World War II. A Kriegsmarine (German...

HE ROYAL NAVY: 100 YEARS OF MODERN WARFARE – JULIAN THOMPSON Another great podcast from Dan Snow. I served with Julian Thompson, a very...

INS Viraat former HMS Hermes is retired, she holds the Guinness record for being the oldest serving warship. INS Viraat is a...