Post with 272 views. Let's play count the turrets! ...5, 6... 7 turrets! Making for fourteen 12" guns- the most ever fitted to a battleship. Laid down as Brazilian, then bought by the Ottoman Empire (after a public subscription campaign) and seized by the Royal Navy. Nickname:

The Battle of Heligoland Bight he first naval encounter between the British and German fleets, in the North Sea off the North German coast on 28th August 1914

HMS Versatile D32

howe being towed into emsenanda da la malata 19s

HMS Duke of York (17) King George V-class battleship of the British Royal Navy. (google.image) 7.17

A history of the Colony class light cruiser HMS Gambia C48. The 1941 to 1943 commission

4693. This is another ship story with a very sad ending. Built by H. Robb at Leith, Scotland in 1929 for the NSW State Metal Quarries public enterprise, the 540 ton SS BOMBO arrived in Sydney in 1930 and commenced delivering gravel for State roadworks from various quarries along the coast to Sydney. Requisitioned and commissioned into the RAN on May 28, 1941 as an auxiliary minesweeper BOMBO was armed with a 12-pounder gun, two 20mm Oerlikons [visible above] and four depth charges on the stern, along, one presumes, with sweeping gear. HMAS BOMBO worked between Sydney and Hobart from 1941 to mid or late 1944, at some point being based South and doing rotations between Hobart and Port Arthur with another auxiliary minesweeper on every second day. In the latter part of 1944 she moved north and was used as a stores carrier and sometime target tow out of Darwin. On September 11, 1945, HMAS BOMBO was present when the Japanese surrender at Koepang, Timor was signed on HMAS MORESBY. BOMBO paid off on Feb. 25, 1946, but was not returned to her owners until July 25 the following year, when she resumed work in the gravel trade. Michael McFadyen's carefully researched Scuba Diving website mentions reports that some of that some of BOMBO's ballast had been removed during her alterations for naval service, and that she was said to have a tendency to list when heavy laden during her service as a stores carrier later. In any event, back under her old pre-war Master, Captain Arthur Bell, S.S. BOMBO was in trouble on what was to be her last voyage, as she beat her way back up the NSW South Coast from Kiama fully laden with some 650 tons of blue metal on February 22, 1949, when a 'southerly buster' hit somewhere off Wollongong. At 4pm the struggling ship was hit by a huge wave, and failed to come fully back up again as her gravel cargo shifted, and she developed a 5 degree list. Captain Bell decided to beat towards shelter in Port Kembla Harbour, and was within 10 miles of his objective and perhaps half a mile from shore at 10 pm that night when her load shifted further, and her list suddenly increased to 30 degrees. Captain Bell urgently ordered everyone on deck and the boats lowered when the ship suddenly turned turtle and sank, plunging towards the bottom in an undersea rain of spilling gravel. Four men went down with the ship immediately, leaving 10 in the rough water - including Captain Bell - clinging to planks. Two men made an initial attempt to swim ashore, but never made it. When dawn broke, Captain Bell and another crewman had passed away. The remaining six survivors decided to swim for shore at 15 minute intervals, but only two of them reached separate beaches, fireman Michael Fitzsimmons and crewman Thorveld Thomsen. Remarkably, the ship's dog also made it to shore. In all, 12 of BOMBO's complement of 14 had perished: Captain Bell's body, and that of a crewmen named Charles Barhen were recovered by a Wollongong trawler, the PACIFIC PEARL. On advice from local fisherman, the wreck of the BOMBO was discovered by two divers, Donb Morrison and Bruce Hammon in 1978 - 29 years after her loss, and the site was made public in 1983. Within months of its location being disclosed, Don Morrison later recalled, the wreck was virtually stripped. *Most facts here are from Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving Website, andMichael's full webpage on this wreck, with further details and other photos, can be found here: www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/viewpage.php?page_id=81 We had a starboard side view of HMAS BOMBO, clearly taken at the same time as the image above, and it can be seen way back at pic NO. 7, here: www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3807495137/ This photo: RAN Historical, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 02339, it appeared in John Bastock's book 'Australia's Ships of War' [Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1975] p224; Ross Gillett's 'Australian and New Zealand Warships, 1914-1945' [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p174; and it has also appeared in other reference sources.

HMS Atherstone

HMS Trafalgar, 1890 Line Drawing

HMS Cleopatra on laundry day. She was a screw-corvette launched in 1878. 20 years of naval technology had passed since HMS Clio was launched (1858, photo posted earlier), makes for an interesting comparison. Used for 'harbour service' in 1903. Renamed Defiance II in 1922. Scrapped 1931.

Home Fleet about 1904-05

HMS Bulwark (1899)

B-Class Submarine TRITON. The B-Class Submarine was the oldest class being used during 1940. A total of 5 were produced in during The Great War Years and 3 were still active during 1940.

WRNS cooks serving some of the new Naval recruits in the ship's galley. HMS Raleigh, Devonport, England. 12th January 1943. (IWM)

Flower-class corvette HMS Gentian of Escort Group B-2

HMS Waveney, a River class destroyer built by R.W.Hawthorn Leslie & Co being commissioned on 01/06/04. Served all her life along the East coast of England. Saw action in the German battlecruiser raid on Hartlepool in 1914 with no damage or losses suffered. Placed in reserve in 1919 and sold for scrap on 20/02/20

After being transferred to the British Royal Navy the newly named HMS Banff (Y 43) was commissioned on 30 Apr 1941 .On 8 Aug 1942, she rescued 18 people from the Norwgian tanker Mirlo which was torpedoed by U-130. On 27 February 1946 she was returned to the USCG.

Destroyer Eden 1904 Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn

HMS Volunteer

HMS Samphire (K128) assigned to the 36th Escort Group and tasked with convoy escort operations between Liverpool and the Mediterranean Sea. On 21 December 1941, she successfully released depth charges with the British sloop Deptford resulting in the sinking of the German submarine U-567 in the North Atlantic northeast of the Azores. All 47 men on board the U-567 were killed.