Captain Downes’s talk in April this year highlighted the less exciting but nonetheless demanding aspects of “Q” ship operations. H.M.S. Stonecrop’s experience in WWI was quite different. Sadly, she herself ...
WWI operations
Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC
Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign
Battle of Jutland and Leyte Gulf – A comparison
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Convoy System – WW1 and WW2 Comparisons
In World War I the convoy system was not instituted until May 1917, whilst in World War II convoys were quickly organised soon after war was declared in September 1939. ...