Our 133rd AGM will take place on Wednesday 1st July 2026. It will be held as a hybrid meeting hosted at Kingโs College London
Members are invited to attend with an opportunity to give a short presentation - for more details visit: https://t.co/k9VAztD1aU
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#OnThisDay 1982 HMS SHEFFIELD is hit by Argentine Exocet becoming the first @RoyalNavy ship lost in action since 1945. Though the missile did not detonate it started fires that killed 20 sailors. 260 were rescued by HMS ARROW. SHEFFIELD later sank under tow #remember
USS Constitution by Anton Fischer
Her long career almost ended a month into the war of 1812, when she fell in with a Royal Navy squadron. She used her boats and ditched all her water to escape the British in a chase lasting two days and nights.
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Happy to share that my Corbett Prize-winning essay is now available to read via advanced online publication in Historical Research here:
https://t.co/pL1WYpy7JQ
At the event, Her Royal Highness was presented with a specially bound edition of the Societyโs recently published volume, โNelsonโs Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documentsโ by author Dr Marianne Czisnik, as a gesture of appreciation for The Princess Royalโs patronage.
๐ฃ The latest from the Marinerโs Mirror Podcast is available now (๐ https://t.co/TJv7Xh8ThY)
Sam Willis & Catherine Scheybeler explore the shipyards, politics & ambitions of 18th-century Spain in its emergence as a modern maritime power
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#LookInside ๐ The British Aircraft Carrier in Two World Wars by Norman Friedman ๐
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๐ฑ #onthisday in 1917 HMS Achilles and SS Dundee fought the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopold, which sank with the loss of all hands
Discover more about this action & paintings of it, visit our online magazine: https://t.co/Thm8elLgDB
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๐ฃ The latest from our Online magazine: https://t.co/sRVxZk9iSK
A letter written on 30 August 1914 by Stoker Thomas Victor Rayson of HMS Falmouth, offers a rare firsthand account of naval warfare at the outbreak of the First World War
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Our latest online magazine article explores shipbuilding in the 9th to 11th centuries. Using evidence from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it challenges the idea that King Alfred the Great founded the English navy. ๐ Read now ๐ : https://t.co/RTIVduPQsv
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Our latest Online Magazine Post is up! The fantastic diaries of David Talbot continue, a man on the run from a ship in the Napoleonic Wars. https://t.co/N5qTIQytmN #historylover#navalhistory#Navy#RoyalNavy#military
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@mapleleafnavy Thanks for your reply - please do read the full article if interested! And yes you are correct it was scuttled in Montevideo following the battle of River Plate (pictured in the post) in a quite astounding turn of events โ๏ธ
๐ฌ Naval History with Dr Alex โ Now live on @AC_NavalHistory's YouTube channel:
๐ฝ๏ธ More Lessons of Never-Built Carriers โ featuring some fantastic gift ideas ๐๐
๐บ Watch it here ๐๐ https://t.co/3YLWBh6ZaD