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...that the U class submarine HMS Vandal (pictured) had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all hands just four days after its commission?

...that the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?

...that the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle (pictured) was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria harbour?

...that in the early 1940s, HMS Ceres (pictured), a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland?

...that the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material?

...that cryptologist Harry Hinsley's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the weather ship Lauenburg?

...that despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens?

- ...that Tirpitz the pig (pictured) rescued after the sinking of the SMS Dresden became a ship's mascot on one of the cruisers that sank the Dresden?

...that the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?

...that the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?

...that the Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Jamaica (pictured) was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the North Koreans claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?

...that the British Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher (pictured) in 1944 was involved in Operation Neptune as a member of Gunfire Bombardment Support Force D allocated to Sword Beach in the D-Day landings?

...that the British motor tanker SS Atheltempler, part of Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany, was sunk north of Bear Island?

...that the Flower class corvette HMS Bryony (pictured) was sunk before she could even be launched?

...that the frigate HMS Alarm was the first ship of the Royal Navy ever to have a fully copper-sheathed hull?

...that HMS Amphion (pictured) was sunk in the opening 36 hours of the First World War?

...that despite the torpedoed Soviet merchant SS Stalingrad sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?

...that HMS Benbow's (pictured) class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns?

...that Commander Reinhard Hardegen deliberately placed his U-boat in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?

...that the F class destroyer HMS Fury (pictured) carried the former King Edward VIII to France the day after he abdicated the throne?

...that the Tribal class destroyer HMS Tartar received the nickname 'Lucky Tartar' due to her numerous escapes from dangerous situations in World War II?

...that the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?

...that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?

...that the British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105 strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War?

...that in attempting to stop U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head, two Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?

...that the practice of taking cats aboard ships (example pictured) dates back to the Ancient Egyptians?

...that Prince Esper Ukhtomsky's account of Nicholas II's Eastern tour, Travels in the East of Nicholas II, was written in close consultation with the Tsar himself?

...that Thomas Masterman Hardy's first command was HMS Mutine, a ship he had himself captured at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife?

...that after being captured from the French, HMS Donegal went on to capture two French ships at the Battle of San Domingo?

...that Captain Philip Broke personally led the boarding party from HMS Shannon onto the USS Chesapeake (pictured)?

...that despite not being present at the Battle of Trafalgar, Richard Strachan was among those rewarded for the victory?

...that the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy's minehunter HMS Sandown?

...that the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar?

...that photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?

...that Horatio Nelson admitted that William Locker (pictured) was a major influence on his later career?

...that HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War, having spent five years as a submarine depot ship?

...that Admiral John Forbes (pictured) refused to sign the death warrant imposed on fellow Admiral John Byng, convinced of his innocence?

...that with over 370 officers and ratings, HMS President is one of the largest "stone frigates" of the Royal Naval Reserve?

...that while one naval historian praised Richard Lestock for his "zeal and attention", another declared he "ought to have been shot"?

......that "Brave" Admiral Benbow (pictured), celebrated in song, was compensated by the British Treasury after a three month visit by Tsar Peter the Great left his house ‘entirely ruined’?

...that whilst both Richard Kirkby and George Walton were present at the Action of August 1702, Walton went on to be an Admiral, whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?

- ...that military engineer Thomas Phillips (pictured), is pictured in a 17th-century painting with Brave Benbow , but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the Earl of Orford?

...that despite a wartime career lasting less than a year, HMS Codrington transported a number of dignitaries, including King George VI, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill?

...that the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad?

...that Captain Philip Beaver (pictured) once read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica during one of his cruises?

...that when the commander of the German forces in the Dodecanese came to surrender aboard HMS Kimberley, he did so aboard a captured British Motor Launch?

...that Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars?

...that the fire and explosion of SS Fort La Monte wrecked the nearby Royal Navy destroyer HMS Arrow (pictured)?

...that twenty out of the thirty five merchant ships of convoy SC-7 were sunk by German U-boats?

...that the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quail (pictured) was mined in November 1943, but did not sink until May 1944?

...that the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War?

...that the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats, but still managed to reach port because her cargo of timber kept her afloat?

...that the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina?

... that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?

... that Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo?

... that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges?

... that the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in the Easter Sunday Raid?

.. that future Admiral John Moore joined the Royal Navy when he was just 11 years old?

... that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose?

... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight?

... that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?

... that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 in 1941?

... that 820 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) was involved in attacks on the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz during the Second World War?

... that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?

... that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?

... that Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?

... that the Dogger, a type of fishing boat, takes its name from the Dogger Bank, which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?

... that aircraft from 825 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) carried out attacks against several German battleships during the Second World War?

... that the container ship Atlantic Causeway was refitted with a ski-jump to enable her to operate Sea Harriers during the Falklands War?

... that the sinking of the SS Königin Luise (pictured) was the first German naval loss of the First World War?

... that the Harwich Force, under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War?

... that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear?

... that Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?

... that future admirals Samuel Barrington, George Darby, Hugh Palliser, Thomas Pasley, Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse?

... that 52 ships of the German High Seas Fleet were successfully scuttled in Scapa Flow (example pictured) in 1919, but many were later salvaged?

... that Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?

... that HMS Sans Pareil (pictured), a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?

... that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?

... that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London?

... that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?

... that Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (pictured) drowned when the boat he was returning to shore in capsized?

... that Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (pictured), was born 250 years ago today?

... that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?

... that HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars?

... that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile, Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?

... that Captain William Mounsey, in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne, captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse?

... that Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?

... that Horatio Nelson called the captains who fought with him at the Battle of the Nile his "Band of Brothers"?

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