5 Oct 1944 // Minesweeper BYMS 2255 sank in Boulogne harbour when a mine exploded under her stern just after she had anchored after returning from a sweeping operation. She caught fire and rapidly began to sink but her crew evacuated in good order and there were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #WW2

Mordor on the Orient Express

#OTD in 1942 the modern Italian merchant Francesco Barbaro was sunk by HM/Sub P.35 off Navarino, Greece. Updated the article below with some technical info on these standardised Italian merchants. #navalhistory @rjhammond215.bsky.social

25 Sept 1943 // HM Trawler Donna Nook sank after colliding with another naval trawler, the Stella Rigel, during actions in the early hours of the morning between armed trawlers and German torpedo boats off Lowestoft. All her crew were rescued. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

WW2 Fireships - Operation Lucid Late in the afternoon of 26 September 1940, War Nizam and Oakfield set sail from Sheerness and headed towards Calais and War Nawab set sail from Portsmouth to Boulogne.

Timothy Dexter a businessman who People jokingly told to "ship coal to Newcastle". Fortuitously, he did so during a miners' strike, and his cargo was sold at a premium A man who was very canny or lucky or both @garius.bsky.social , @dreadships.bsky.social en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy...

@dreadships.bsky.social Having a quick look at previous HMS Glsttons led me down a rabbit hole of the Crimean Floating Batteries . Here we have the French Lave or Lava . Looking like any vaguely ship like qualities were an afterthought military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Floatin...

Please enjoy this sculpture of the Prince of Wales and his horse made entirely of butter, courtesy of the Canadians at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924. I will not be taking any questions at this time.

@dreadships.bsky.social A bad day at work for the crew of a drilling rig that caused a Quarter mile wide whirlpool and permanently changed the landscape en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pe...

@dreadships.bsky.social A story in 3 pictures Built by Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) shipping company the ship was intended for the NGI's South American service. The Principessa Jolanda has also been called the first true Italian luxury liner.

@navalairhistory.com just discovered this on the Osprey Blog. Something to look forward to in 2026 Beaufighter vs German Flak Ships: North Sea and Mediterranean 1941–45. Good to get some unknown naval history spotlights :)

A good illustrated thread from Jamie. The idea of an aircraft capturing a submarine is so counter-intuitive you wonder how it was possible.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2p... Pyro the flying cat

Our new Mosquito Flight Simulator

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man! www.badsquiddogames.com

Buy Jack’s book because it will be undoubtably be excellent.

July 1945 and on the Brazilian ship Bahia crewmen were conducting anti-aircraft target practice, firing the ship's 20 mm guns at a kite that was being towed behind the ship.

The Hunt Class destroyer Adrias on the River Tyne, 31 July 1942. Shortly after she was taken over by the Hellenic Navy

Not sure if this is North Africa but this is a Frankentank I’ve ever seen one. Captured British Bren gun carrier with a captured French 25mm Hotchkiss AT gun. @navalairhistory.com

At 12:00 on 17 December 1940, the 2,785-ton French Navy fleet oiler Rhône got underway from Casablanca bound for Dakar, Senegal, carrying a cargo of munitions and 3,500 tons of fuel oil.Ordered to transfer to Dakar to relieve the submarine Bévéziers there,

She's so beautiful

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duy_T%C... While poking about in French Colonial history I discovered an exiled Vietnamese Emperor. Who was a ham radio enthusiast, resistance member , briefly joined french navy and ended WW2 as a Lieutenant Colonel @dreadships.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social

April 1943 HMS Aldenham goes into drydock in Alexandria to check Asdic Dome , Props and shafts . Later same month she hits a beach and shears off Asdic dome , bends prop shafts and destroyed propellers. She returns to Alexandria and goes back into same drydock @dreadships.bsky.social

Here they are the first look at the Arnhem bad guys from myself and Paul and Christine Empress Miniatures. The officers are all based on photos from the battle. No idea when they will be going live. #28mmWW2 #chainofcommand #boltaction

Magic! As one of the key differences between The Barons' War and Warhost, how does magic function in the game? I've shared a post about it: hobdayandhicks.com/blogs/blog/m...

This is going to be great!

Just got my copy of Warhost! What an amazing job Andy Hobday’s done! So proud of this publication. Hobday & Hicks (Warhost) hobdayandhicks.com don’t forget you’ll need a copy of The Barons' War.

If there’s a WW2 war film that it really would be good to have a modern remake of, it’s San Demetrio, London. Based on true story of a tanker attacked and abandoned, then reboarded by some of her crew who put out fires, jury rigged the steering, plugged leaks and navigated by faith #NavalHistory

This is the universal Greeble courtesy of Digital Taxidermy Greebles, also greeblies are parts harvested from plastic modeling kits to be applied to an original model as a detail element.

24 Dec 1941 // Corvette HMS Salvia was torpedoed and sunk with no survivors by German submarine U-568 in the Mediterranean about 190 km west of Alexandria. In addition to 59 crew Salvia was carrying many men rescued from POW ship Shuntien, sunk 23 Dec by U-559. #RoyalNavy #WW2

The Donut Dollies were a group of women who served in the American Red Cross Clubmobile Corps, providing food, drink, and morale support to American troops during World War II.

A Christmas Eve Tragedy The troopship Léopoldville was hastily loaded for the Battle of the Bulge with 2,223 reinforcements from the 262nd and 264th Regiments, 66th Infantry Division of the United States Army. The soldiers' regimental command structure was fragmented by loading troops

This fell out of a book , that was delivered yesterday. @curatorian.bsky.social @nickhewitt4.bsky.social @jerijerod14.bsky.social @royalnavyofficial.bsky.social Anyone shed some light on how a Royal Marine may have got this certificate as its a very American looking document

George Cole's was in the RAF from 1944 to 1947, where he was a radio operator. Richard Wattis served as 2nd Lt in the Small Arms Section of Special Operations Executive at Station VI during the WW2 Eric Barker was part of the armed forces radio show Merry Go Round, which he helped to write

The company has its roots in a printing business established by Anthony Bunn Johnson in Birmingham in the early 19th century. The company then moved to the suburb of Harborne, in the valley of a stream called the Chad Brook, its valley is therefore from where the company name is derived.

As its an old tradition to tell ghost stories around Christmas Empire Stevedore was an approximately 750 GRT cargo ship which was built as Kriegtransporter KT 3. Taken over at Hamburg in October 1949 by the Royal Engineers. To Marchwood, Hampshire in 1950 for use as a stevedore training ship.

18 Dec 1940 // Submarine HMS Triton was declared lost on this date. She vanished with all 54 crew for reasons unknown while on patrol in the southern Adriatic, possibly mined in the Strait of Otranto some time in early December. (Imperial War Museum FL 20231) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Christmas Menu 1940, U.S.S. Nevada, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Bremerton, Washington.

14 Dec 1944 // Destroyer HMS Aldenham was sunk by a mine off the island of Škrda in the Adriatic while supporting Yugoslav partisan operations: 126 of her crew and 2 partisans were killed. She was the last #RoyalNavy destroyer lost in #WW2. (Imperial War Museum images: FL 412 & WMR-19375)

The Last Destroyer On 14 December 1944, Aldenham was sunk by a naval mine in the Adriatic Sea off Pag Island after she led a Royal Navy force in a bombardment mission against targets on the island of Pag and near the town of Karlobag in support of the Yugoslav Partisans.

Jenson realised that not only would he never win Formula One like his namesake but also he'd messed up building his first place podium

26 July 1945 Off Phuket, obsolete Mitsubishi Ki-51 bombers now the backbone of the kamikaze force) attacked the Royal Navy task group in the last light of day. HMS Ameer brought one kamikaze down with her ack-ack – the bomber disintegrated in the sea just 500 yards from the escort carrier.

Forgotten heroes: repair ships. USS Medusa (AR-1) was the US Navy’s first purpose built repair ship. Equipped with only token armament, the ARs were practically floating shipyards. Forward deployed with the fleet, they could make field repairs and get ships back into the fight. #USNavy #WW2

Forgotten heroes: hospital ships. In use since the days of the Roman Empire, hospital ships really started to advance during the Napoleonic Wars. The Hague Convention X of 1907 laid down rules on treatment of these ships in wartime. *Most* of the time all sides tried to comply. #WW2 #navalhistory

Forgotten heroes: Flower class corvettes. They tossed about horribly, were cold, damp & miserable. Barely just over 200 feet long, these stubborn little fellows & their crews escorted convoys across the violent North Atlantic during #WW2 fending off U-boats from their charges. #navalhistory

Forgotten heroes: fleet tugs. When you’re 6,000 miles from home and your bow has been blown off, these tiny fellows would get you home. #usnavy #WW2 #navalhistory

Women's Royal Naval Service personnel loading the Browning machine guns of a Hurricane at the Fleet Air Arm airfield at Yeovilton, Somerset. Original colour. IWM (TR 1273), Lt Zimmerman, RN Official Photographer www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Using only names of RFA or RN ships assemble : 1 ) a really cool superhero team 2) a really mediocre superhero team 3) a squad of Supervillains For Example 1) HMS Waterwitch 2) HMS Camel 3) HMS Weazel

Men of an RASC Bridging Company have a tug-of-war in fields at Le Fresne-Camilly, Normandy, 11 August 1944. IWM (A70 120-16), Sgt Collins, AFPU www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...