Tag: On This Day

The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War and the first one of Battle of the

The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in the Second World War, part of the war in the Pacific,

Operation Frankton was a commando raid on shipping in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in the Bay of Biscay during the Second

On 13 November, at 15:40, the sonar operator aboard the destroyer Legion detected an unidentified sound, but assumed it was the propellers of a

The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral

Armistice Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the

In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, the Sunday nearest to

The Royal British Legion’s annual Festival of Remembrance takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 9 November 2019, the day before Remembrance

In 1974 the President of the Senior Rates’ Mess at HMS Nelson asked HMS Nelson’s Commodore for permission to celebrate Trafalgar Night in the same

Captain John Richards Lapenotière (1770 – 19 January 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer who, as a lieutenant commanding the tiny topsail schooner