The Royal Navy submarine E18 was lost, with all hands, on 2 June 2016. A joint memorial service is being held on 5th June at 13.00 in the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn and at St. Ann’s, Portsmouth also at 10.00.
E18 entered service in the UK in 1915 and soon began North Sea patrols with the 8th Flotilla at Harwich. On her one and only patrol prior to leaving for the Baltic E18 departed Yarmouth on 9 July 1915. On 14 July 1915 when at the mouth of the Ems, deep in enemy waters the Commanding Officer, Lt Cdr Halahan brought E18 to the surface as he preferred the sea to using the toilet arrangements on board. While in this awkward situation a Zeppelin appeared, E18 dived but was easily visible from the air. E18 was then straddled with 12 bombs which caused no damage other than some embarrassment for Halahan in being caught ‘short’.
E18 was dispatched to the Baltic as part of the Royal Navy Submarine Flotilla to be based there. She left Harwich on 28 August with
The Bismarck, probably Germany’s most famous battleship in was sunk on May 27th 1941. The Bismarck had sunk HMS HOOD on 24 May before being sunk herself
On May 18th 1941 Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen slipped out of the Baltic port of Gdynia to attack Allied convoys in the Atlantic. Grand Admiral Raeder intended for the Bismarck, the Prinz Eugen, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau to operate in the Atlantic supported by supply and reconnaissance ships. However, Raeder’s plan, code-named “Exercise Rhine”, was severely hampered when the Gneisenau was hit
On 19th May 2016 The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) opened a major exhibition to commemorate the largest naval battle in history, the Battle ofJutland. ‘36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle That Won The War’ is the most comprehensive exhibition ever staged on the subject, and highlights the essential role of the Royal Navy in winning the First World War.
The Battle of Jutland was the defining naval battle of the First World War, fought over 36 hours from May 31st to June 1st 1916. It is often considered a German victory due to the number of British lives lost; the British lost 6,094 seamen and the Germans 2,551 during the battle. However these figures do not represent the impact upon the British and German fleets. At the end of the battle the British maintained numerical supremacy; only two dreadnoughts were damaged, leaving twenty-three dreadnoughts and four battlecruisers still able to fight, whilst the Germans had only ten dreadnoughts.
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3 Commando Brigade establishes first bridgehead on the Falkland Islands at San Carlos. Ten enemy aircraft destroyed by escorts and Sea Harriers. HMS ARDENT sunk by enemy aircraft, ANTRIM, ARGONAUT and BRILLIANT damaged. This was the first day 5 days of battle between aircraft and ships during the British landings in San Carlos.
