What followed stunned the world, shattered Royal Navy confidence, and marked the dawn of submarine warfare as a serious ...

This is a short note in memory of my uncle (Dominick John Logue) and the men that died with him between 9th and 10th June 1940 on HMS Glorious, I have searched this site for a mention of this event ...

Cyril Butters was a 33-year-old steward from Żabbar. When the news reached Malta that HMS Glorious had been sunk by the German battleships Sharnhorst and Gneisenau, many families felt the pain of the ...

During World War II many Maltese lives were affected by events that were to unfold as the war progressed. A huge shockwave hit Malta on June 8, 1940 with the news that the aircraft carrier HMS ...

THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its guns were so powerful that they almost shook the ship to bits. THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its ...

Only one crew member from the Ardent, two from the Acasta, and thirty-six from the Glorious survived to be picked up by Norwegian and German forces. 1,596 Royal Navy and Air Force personnel died, many ...

Captain Guy O'Dyly-Hughes of HMS Aircraft Carrier Glorious lived in Dorset and was among the 1,531 men lost at sea on June, 8 1940, in what remains one of the most devastating naval disasters of the ...

A community in Dorset gathered to honour the memory of a local hero who died during the Second World War. The village of ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...