By Graeme Lunn John Brown and Company laid down the keel for a battlecruiser in September 1916 that would become the Royal Navy’s epitome of firepower, speed and grace during ...
HMS Hood
The Special Service Squadron – An episode in the peacetime history of theRoyal Navy 1923-1924
Rohan Goyne The ‘World Cruise’ of a special service squadron of the Royal Navy was an inter-war episode of flag waving across the world’s oceans from arguably a declining world ...
Steam Picket Boats: Some Reminiscences
In the last (September 2015) edition of this magazine we asked Leyland Wilkinson, the author of a Letter to the Editor on Picket Boats if he might favour us with ...
RANVR – The Forgotten Few
Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1940 – 1946
The chase and sinking of the ‘Bismarck’
HMS Hood Memorial
Memorials to the loss of naval ships in UK are seldom seen but there is one of world-wide interest. The old Parish Church of Boldre, the building of which commenced ...
Letters: Convoy to Suez – 1941
I am writing in connection with Mr Hilton’s enquiry in “Navy News” May number of the convoy to Suez which left the Clyde on 22nd May 1941. This was convoy WS ...