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The sinking of HMS Victoria took place at approximately 15:30 on 22 June 1893, after HMS  Victoria , the flagship of the Royal Navy 's Mediterranean Fleet , collided with HMS  Camperdown while on fleet manoeuvres in the Eastern Mediterranean . HMS Victoria The collision caused significant damage to Victoria 's bow, with a large hole produced causing the ship to rapidly capsize . HMS Victoria  sinking after collision with HMS Camperdown  during exercises in the Mediterranean. Other ship in...

happy 250th Birthday to our 'Brothers' The United States Marine Corps The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775, the day the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines with the following decree: That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions, that...

Found after 107 years and d ubbed ‘the last scout’ because she was out looking for German warships ahead of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet she was torpedoed and sunk sunk by German submarine U-52 on 19 August 1916, with the loss of 38 hands, including the loss of 1 Royal Marine. Sergeant William Edward Patrick Daley Royal Marines Light Infantry (RMLI). Captain Miller of HMS Nottingham reported: “She was struck by two torpedoes, fired from a submarine, on her port side, the first bursting...