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Royal Navy Escort Carriers: HMS Audacity, HMS Archer, HMS Avenger, HMS Biter, HMS Dasher, HMS Charger, HMS Attacker, HMS Battler, HMS Chaser, HMS Fencer, HMS Hunter, HMS Pursuer, HMS Stalker, HMS Striker

Royal Navy Escort Carriers in the Second World War: HMS Audacity, HMS Archer, HMS Avenger, HMS Biter, HMS Dasher, HMS Charger, HMS Attacker, HMS Battler, HMS Chaser, HMS Fencer, HMS Hunter, HMS Pursuer, HMS Stalker, HMS Striker (IWM Photo, A 5449) HMS Audacity – 11,000 tons deepload, 15 knots, 6 aircraft, laid down in 1941. Ex-German … Read more

Royal Navy Escort Carriers: HMS Patroller, Puncher, Reaper, Slinger, Smiter, Speaker, Trouncer, Trumpeter, Arbiter, Ameer, Atheling, Begum, Emperor, Empress, Khedive, Nabob, Premier, Queen, Rajah, Ranee, Ruler, Shah, Thane

Royal Navy Ruler-class Escort Carriers in the Second World War Ruler class, The Ruler class of escort aircraft carriers served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. All twenty-three ships were built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation in the United States as Bogue-class escort carriers, supplied under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom. They … Read more

Royal Navy Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC-Ships): converted Empire-class Grain Carriers and Oil Tankers, converted Rapana-Class Oil Tankers

Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC-Ships) Oil or grain bulk cargo carriers with superstructures removed and flight decks added. Manned by Merchant Navy crews,with Fleet Air Arm (FAA) personnel to maintain and fly the aircraft – mainly A/S Fairey Swordfish and Hawker Sea Hurricanes. The ships flew the Red Ensign, and some aircraft carried ‘Merchant Navy’ instead … Read more

Royal Navy Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC-ships): HMS Atheling, HMS Begum, HMS Emperor, HMS Empress, HMS Khedive, HMS Nabob, HMS Premier, HMS Queen, HMS Rajah, HMS Ranee, HMS Ruler, HMS Shah, HMS Thane

Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC-Ships) HMS Atheling (D51), HMS Begum (D38), HMS Emperor (D98), HMS Empress (D42), HMS Khedive (D62), HMS Nabob (D77), HMS Premier (D23), HMS Queen (D19), HMS Rajah (D10), HMS Ranee (D03), HMS Ruler (D72), HMS Shah (D21), HMS Thane (D48) ‍Oil or grain bulk cargo carriers with superstructures removed and flight decks … Read more

Royal Navy Minelaying Cruisers: HMS Adventure (M23), HMS Abdiel (M39), HMS Latona (M76), HMS Manxman (M70), HMS Welshman (M84), HMS Ariadne (M65), HMS Apollo (M01)

Royal Navy Minelaying Cruisers HMS Adventure (M23), HMS Abdiel (M39), HMS Latona (M76), HMS Manxman (M70), HMS Welshman (M84), HMS Ariadne (M65), HMS Apollo (M01) Adventure class 6,740 tons, 4 × 4.7 in. HMS Adventure (M23) (IWM Photo, FL 200) HMS Adventure (M23), 1943. HMS Adventure, pennant number M23, was an Adventure-class minelaying cruiser of the … Read more

Royal Navy warships in Canadian waters in the War of 1812

‍The War of 1812, Battles on the Water. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 2836438) HMS Shannon carrying by boarding the American Frigate Chesapeake, after a cannonade of five minutes on 1 June 1813. In the War of 1812, the United States fought Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on … Read more

RCN Armed Trawlers (Isles class): HMCS Anticosti (T274), HMCS Baffin (T275), HMCS Cailiff (T276), HMCS Ironbound (T284), HMCS Liscomb (T285), HMCS Magdalen (T279), HMCS Manitoulin (T280), HMCS Miscou (T277)

RCN Armed Trawlers (Isles class): HMCS Anticosti (T274), HMCS Baffin (T275), HMCS Cailiff (T276), HMCS Ironbound (T284), HMCS Liscomb (T285), HMCS Magdalen (T279), HMCS Manitoulin (T280), HMCS Miscou (T277) HMCS Anticosti (T274) (DND Photo) HMCS Anticosti (T274) (Isles class).  Built at Collingwood, Ontario for the RN, she was commissioned on 10 Aug 1942 as HMS … Read more

Soviet Women Parachutists Nina Pronushkina and Elvira Fomicheva

Russian Women Parachutists In late October 1977, two Soviet women, Nina Pronushkina and Elvira Fomicheva, set absolute stratospheric records that remain unsurpassed decades later. Pronushkina, applying a layer of goose fat to her face to protect against the brutal cold of near-space altitudes, executed a night solo jump on 28 October from a staggering 14,974 … Read more