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- The Curtiss F9F Sparrowhawk was designed to serve on the US airships Akron and Macon. A trapeze was installed on the airships to which the aircraft would connect with a hook. At sea the landing gear was removed and a gas tank installed giving the plane greater range. Eight were built. #NavalHistory
- 4 Feb 1945 // Minesweeper MMS 68 was destroyed north of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea when she struck a stray mine while sailing with other vessels from Patras to Taranto. Seven men from her crew of 25 were rescued. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 4 Feb 1941 // HM Drifter Imbat sank with no casualties after being damaged in a collision at Scapa Flow. Her wreckage was destroyed with explosives. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #Shipwreck #NavalHistory
- 4 Feb 1919 // Minesweeper HMS Penarth was clearing a defensive minefield north-east of Scarborough when two explosions in quick succession sank her with 39 lives lost. It was presumed that she had struck mines which had not had their positions correctly recorded. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 4 Feb 1916 // HM Trawler De la Pole, a minesweeper, was driven aground and wrecked on the Goodwin Sands during a gale. 11 of her 12 crew were saved by the North Deal RNLI lifeboat. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- Image: Francis Sartorious Jr., 'End of the action between HMS Arrow and Acheron and the French frigates Hortense and Incorruptible, 4 February 1805' (1805). Left to right: HMS Arrow sinking, Incorruptible, Hortense pursuing HMS Acheron. (Wikimedia Commons) [4/4] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 4 Feb 1695 (O.S.) // 50-gun 4th-rate HMS Dartmouth was captured by two French privateers west of the Scilly Islands after a night-long chase, and a battle lasting from 6am to noon which left her with heavy casualties, masts and rigging shattered and lower gundeck awash. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 'The Awe of The Arctic', a beautifully illustrated book about the 2024 exhibition at the New York Public Library that I sadly didn't get to see. Including a letter from HMS Erebus' Surgeon Stephen Stanley! Well worth getting this book. #Arctic #NavalHistory
- This week’s podcast is on thee doomed career of U-570 open.spotify.com/episode/0Woi... #ww2 #history #navalhistory
- 3 Feb 1946 // HM Rescue Tug Captive (formerly German tug Max Behrendt, captured 1943) began to leak in a storm and was run ashore at Potomas Bay, Cyprus. She could not be saved and was abandoned. One man drowned while swimming to shore through the surf. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1945 // HM Trawler Arley, a minesweeping vessel, sank off Sheringham, Norfolk, after a mine lodged in her sweeps and exploded. She remained afloat for long enough for a tow to be attempted, but sank after the line parted. One man from her crew was killed. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1941 // HM Trawler Arctic Trapper, employed as an auxiliary patrol vessel, was bombed by Ju87 aircraft off Ramsgate and sank rapidly after receiving a direct hit. All 17 crew died, three men were picked up alive following the attack, but did not survive. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1941 // Ocean boarding vessel HMS Crispin (ex Booth Line cargo steamer, requisitioned 1940) was torpedoed and sunk by U.107 south of Iceland while on convoy escort duty. 121 of her crew were taken off before she sank, but 20 men lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1940 // Minesweeper HMS Sphinx was severely damaged by German bombing off Fraserburgh. She capsized under tow and was abandoned in the early hours of 4 February. 49 of her 95 crew were lost. Her wrecked hull later washed ashore near Lybster and was scrapped. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1915 // Overnight on 2/3 Feb armed merchant cruiser HMS Clan MacNaughton (ex Clan Line SS Clan MacNaughton) vanished with all 281 on board off the north-west coast of Ireland during bad weather. She may have foundered in heavy seas or struck a stray mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- Her captain and master were dismissed the Service by the Court Martial for negligence, but with a recommendation that, 'their conduct otherwise being admirable', that verdict should later be reconsidered by the Admiralty. They were indeed both reinstated within a year. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1799 // 16-gun sloop HMS Nautilus came ashore in very bad weather at Speeton, north of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, and was wrecked. The crew escaped in boats and rafts with no loss of life. She was escorting a convoy from the Baltic to the Humber when lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 3 Feb 1798 // 18-gun sloop HMS Raven, cruising in the North Sea, ran aground and was wrecked without loss of life at the mouth of the River Elbe while seeking shelter from a storm. They took on a local pilot who guided them into the river mouth and straight onto a sandbank. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 18-gun sloop HMS Berbuda, 6-gun schooner HMS Henry, 20-gun sloop HMS Oroonoque, 14-gun brig HMS Rodney, 14-gun sloop HMS Stormont, and 18-gun sloop HMS Sylph. The surrender terms were agreed with the French and there was no fighting and no lives lost. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1942 // HM Trawler Cloughton Wyke, sweeping off Cromer with other minesweeping trawlers, was attacked by a German aircraft while immobilised by mechanical breakdown. She sank after a bomb exploded close under her stern, with four of her crew killed. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1942 // HM Trawler Cape Spartel was sweeping off the Humber Estuary with other minesweeping trawlers when she was bombed by a German aircraft. She was evacuated and sank shortly afterwards with no loss of life. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1941 // HM Trawler Almond, operating as a minesweeper, sank after detonating a mine off Falmouth. There were three survivors from her 22 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Holdene, a minesweeper based in Harwich, detonated a submarine-laid mine while sweeping off Orfordness, and sank with the loss of seven of her crew. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Drifter G.S.P., a net barrier tender based in Poole, collided off Selsey Bill with newly-built destroyer Radiant, which was conducting speed trials, and sank with the loss of five men from her crew of nine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Cotsmuir, employed as a minesweeper off north-east England, disappeared during the night of 2-3 February, presumed mined, while returning to the Humber after escorting a merchant vessel to the Tyne. All 13 of her crew were lost with her. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1912 // HM Submarine A.3 was accidentally rammed by submarine tender HMS Hazard off the Isle of Wight during training exercises and sank with the loss of all 14 on board. She was salvaged and sunk on 12 May 1912 as a gunnery target. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- As a privateer she bore the name Inabordable from 1786 to 1793, when the French recaptured her and she became a French frigate again under the name Légère. Finally, in 1796, she was captured again by the British and served as HMS Legere until lost in 1801. [3/3] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 1 Feb 1953 // Frigate HMS Berkeley Castle was under refit at Sheerness when the Great North Sea Flood of 31 January/1 February 1953 inundated her dry dock. She was swept off the blocks, flooded, and rolled onto her side. She was declared a total loss and later scrapped. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
- 1 Feb 1943 // Minelayer HMS Welshman, sailing from Malta to Alexandria, was torpedoed and sunk off Tobruk, Libya, by U-boat U.617, with the loss of 165 lives. In addition to 152 members of her crew 13 passengers died, including 2 civilians. (Imperial War Museum FL 4485) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
- 1 Feb 1918 // HM Trawler Remindo, equipped with hydrophones for submarine detection, vanished off Portland with all 20 crew. U-boat UC.79 later claimed to have sunk her near the French coast, but the Admiralty concluded that she had struck a mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 1 Feb 1918 // HM Trawler Cleon disappeared off Folkestone with all 12 crew while on minesweeping duties. An explosion was heard at about the time she vanished, suggesting that she had struck a mine. One of her boats was later found adrift in a damaged condition. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
