Category Archives: All Royal Navy – RN

HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier. She was wrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset, Britain, on 26 January 1932. She was one of three M-class boats completed.

Design and careerFour M-class submarines replaced the order for the last four K-class submarines, K17-K21. Although they were similar in size, the M class was an entirely different design from the K class, although it is possible that some material ordered for the K-boats went into them. In any event, the end of the FirstContinue reading “HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier. She was wrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset, Britain, on 26 January 1932. She was one of three M-class boats completed.”

HMS Prince of Wales – Exercise Steadfast Defender

Pictured: HMS Prince of Wales leads the fifteen ship formation as jets fly past.Front row: HMS Prince of WalesRow 2 (L-R): USS Paul Ignatius, ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbon, Row 3 (L-R): HMS Portland, HNLMS Karel Doorman, HNOMS Magnus Lagabote, RFA Tidespring, HNOMS Olav Tyrggvason, ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, FS NormandieRow 4 (L-R): RFA Mounts Bay,Continue reading “HMS Prince of Wales – Exercise Steadfast Defender”

Training with Kiwis bears fruit for HMS Tamar

Patrol ship HMS Tamar geared up for an intensive period safeguarding vital fishing stocks in the South Pacific through training in New Zealand. Making use of their hosts – both personnel and ships – the crew of the Portsmouth-based vessel made use of the waters of the Hairaki Gulf, just off Auckland on the NorthContinue reading “Training with Kiwis bears fruit for HMS Tamar”

RFA Gold Ranger (A130) was a Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which first served in World War II.

In December, 1949, she supported Operation Corkscrew by providing aviation fuel at Deception Island for aircraft which helped relieve men of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Base E on Stonington Island. She later served in the Korean War, and in support of the atomic tests at Mauro Atoll. She was later employed as aContinue reading “RFA Gold Ranger (A130) was a Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which first served in World War II.”

Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Havelock https://ift.tt/KTaUpsy

HMS Havelock at the T.W. Wards Shipbreakers at Preston, 1927 HMS Havelock 1915 HMS Havelock was an Abercrombie-class monitor of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War. Background[edit] On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14 in (356 mm)/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek ship Salamis. These turrets could not beContinue reading “Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Havelock https://ift.tt/KTaUpsy”