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#NavalHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 48 people shared 441 posts with it — around 15 a day. Activity is down 4% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 26 with 21 posts.

#NavalHistory posts per day (last 30 days)

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#RoyalNavy 219 #WW1 55 #WW2 52 #History 44 #OTD 34 #MilitaryHistory 20 #MaritimeHistory 16 #histbookchat 14 #Ship 9 #warship 9 #WWII 8 #books 8

Posts with #NavalHistory

John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory
A well-kept grave and memorial stone to Able Seacat Simon.

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.
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RN ship losses
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social
1 day ago
20 Sept 1976 // Minesweeper HMS Fittleton sank after colliding with frigate HMS Mermaid during mail transfer in the North Sea, with the loss of 12 men, mostly from the RN Reserve. (Memorial window at HMS President: War Memorials Online, photograph by Anthony Bradbury) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Memorial window dedicated to the 12 men lost when HMS Fittleton was sunk in a collision on 20 September 1976. The window has a picture of the ship with her badge in the upper right and a scroll in the upper left bearing the names of those who died in the sinking: C.R.S. Philip Barber RNR, Ck. Kevin Donoghue RN, Sub. Lt. Christopher Grenfell RNR, M.E.M. Ian Hewison RNR, M.E.M. Gerard Hoey RN, R.O. Richard Massey RNR, O.E.M. Charles Newell RNR, Ck. Michael Pilch RNR, D.P.O. Ck Frederick Pilgrim RNR, R.O. Patrick Quantrill RNR, C.Y. David Skinner RNR, Mech. Stanley Turner BEM RNR.
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RN ship losses
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social
7 months ago
Women have always gone to sea and faced the sea's dangers. Women were in many of the naval losses chronicled here, and are numbered among the casualties. Remembering them, and all the women afloat and ashore whose lives are caught up with the sea, on this #InternationalWomensDay #NavalHistory
June Saunders, Women's Royal Naval Service, stands on the fo'c'sle of her boat preparing to make fast. Official Admiralty photograph by Harold William John Tomlin, Plymouth, November 1944. Imperial War Museum: A 26516.
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Jamie McTrusty
@jamiemctrusty.bsky.social
3 days ago
Just finished the audiobook of this, covering the activities of the trawlers, drifters and other small craft of the Royal Naval Patrol Service during the Second World War. It’s an often neglected area, particularly the vital role these vessels played in minesweeping. Recommended! #NavalHistory
Cover image for the book ‘Churchill’s Pirates’ by Will Iredale. It features a group of six grinning seamen in an impressive variety of nautical clothing, grouped in front of a twin machine gun. Two of the men, crouching in front, are brandishing stripped Lewis guns.
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COPP Survey
@coppsurvey.uk
4 days ago
🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP's Nigel Willmott tells D-Day planners that he'll need no fewer than four X-craft midget submarines (📸 IWM A 22899) if his men are to properly recce Normandy beaches right up to the currently-planned D-Day in early May '44. #NavalHistory 🧵 ▶️ buff.ly/HVUbXqB
Midget submarine X-25, which wasn’t involved in COPP operations, underway on the surface in Scotland.
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RN ship losses
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social
1 day ago
20 Sept 1943 // Frigate HMS Lagan, in mid-Atlantic escorting a Liverpool to North America convoy, was hit by a torpedo fired by U.270 which wrecked her stern and killed 29 men. Towed into the Mersey, she was written off as a total loss. (Imperial War Museum A 14733) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2
Royal Navy frigate HMS Lagan. Imperial War Museum image: A 14733. Black and white photograph of a warship, starboard side view, with the shoreline visible in the background.
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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️
@kejamieson.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
#OTD 1949 #NavalHistory HMS Implacable was scuttled at St Catherine's Deep, off the Isle of Wight. Formerly the French third-rate Duguay-Trouin (74), she fought at Trafalgar in 1805 and was captured by the Royal Navy later that year at Cape Ortegal, by a fleet under Sir Richard Strachan
Stern gallery of HMS Implacable
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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️
@kejamieson.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
#OTD 1759– The Battle of Quiberon Bay The battle which inspired ‘Heart of Oak’ & stopped French plans to invade Britain. Mahan wrote that it was 'the Trafalgar of the Seven Years War' 24 British ships of the line under Edward Hawke engaged 21 French, commanded by Marshal de Conflans #NavalHistory
Painting of the Battle of Quiberon Bay by Nicholas Pocock
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RN ship losses
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social
about 9 hours ago
21 Sept 1942 // Tug HMS St Olaves and the barge she was towing were driven ashore and wrecked in a gale at Duncansby Head, Scotland. No lives were lost: 4 men from the barge reached shore safely, and the 31 remaining crew from tug and barge were saved by the Wick lifeboat. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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