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• Arctic Convoy navies celebrated at Loch Ewe as surviving veterans receive Arctic Star medal

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 151
  High on the hillside above Loch Ewe yesterday, 9th May 2013, the Gods smiled with sunshine, warmth and no wind on an assembled crowd of veterans of the World War II Arctic Convoys to north Russia; their carers and descendants  – and those of the lost and since gone; a host of visiting dignitaries, representing the ...
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• Falklands chief: Navy cuts will leave UK ripe for the taking

  
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  Cuts to the Navy will leave Britain defenceless and ‘ripe for the taking’, the Falklands War veteran Sir Sandy Woodward has warned.In a rare intervention, Sir Sandy, who led the Naval task force that helped retake the Falkland Islands in 1982, said Britain would be left unable to defend its interests around the ...
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• It’s Derry again – with London and Liverpool, commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic

  
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  From the Dalai Lama to a “ VVIP”  at the weekend, Londonderry is proving quite  a venue, one of three for   commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic this weekend . Good to see the UK City of Culture grafting this  on to the programme  and the recognition given to its role as a major port for the destroyer ...
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• BANK HOLIDAY CARTOON

  
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• 4 year scientific investigation indicates navy’s sonar devices caused 2008 mass dolphin stranding and deaths

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 151
  The scientific journal PLOS ONE has published the results of four years of research into the UK’s largest ever mass stranding event of marine mammals [MSE] – on 9th June 2008. This took place in Falmouth Bay in Cornwall, with 26 dolphins dying and around the same number managed back to sea. The researchers were ...
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• REMEMBERING ALL THOSE THAT LOST THEIR LIVES ON HMS SHEFFIELD

  
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  A personal tribute from former Royal Navy Tug Wilson to the fallen of HMS SHEFFIELD who defended the freedom of the Falklands. Designed and created by Tug Wilson, RN. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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• Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend

  
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  Next week marks a significant military anniversary, and lots of military things will be happening along the Thames as a result. And details have finally been confirmed — including public tours of HMS Illustrious. As part of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, three military ships will visit ...
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• Royal Navy – Britain may reverse East of Suez policy with return to military bases in Gulf

  
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  - Daily Telegraph – Britain plans to restore a permanent military presence in the Gulf, basing land, air and naval forces in the region, according to a defence think tank with close ties to the armed forces.
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• THE ROYAL NAVY

  
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• April 1913: This month last century

  
  Te Papa's Blog — Authority: 126
  100 years ago HMS New Zealand arrives in New Zealand (12 April 1913) In March 1909, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward announced that ‘the Dominion’ (New Zealand) was offering ‘the Motherland’ (Britain) the ‘free gift of … a first-class battleship’. The Prime Minister thought that his offer ...
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• Here Dead we lie - the First World War revisited

  
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  I have spent much of the past few weeks living half in the present day and half in the terrible four years from 1914 to 1918. I spent many evenings watching (in most cases for the first time) the BBC’s majestic 1964 series ‘The Great War’, all 26 episodes of it.  I missed it when it was first shown, though even ...
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• Small ones are better: large aircraft carriers are too vulnerable to satellite-guided missiles says report

  
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  Flightglobal Hyperbola previously  noted the danger of the Royal Navy having just a two large aircraft carriers given that the new Queen Elizabeth-class may be vulnerable to a new type of satellite-directed ballistic anti-ship missile (e.g. Chinas DF-21D).  Nevertheless, we did point out that in deciding ...
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• A View of Greenwich by Canaletto

  
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  I’m walking under the Thames through the tunnel that is less than a quarter of a mile long and lies 53 feet below the high water mark. I have spent a long day guiding in Greenwich so I’m taking it easy and making most of the lifts here rather than walking 100 steps downstairs or 88 steps upstairs. It has been ...
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• Under Siege

  
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  A seal has boarded a Royal Navy amphibious-assault ship as it was about to carry out military exercises near Carnoustie. HMS Bulwark was making preparations for the multinational training exercise Joint Warrior when the seal swam up the ship’s landing dock. The animal sat and watched the crew for about half an ...
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• Alfred the Grrrrrreat

  
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  The Anglo-Saxon occupation of England was a trying time in British history. After the Romans left, the Anglo-Saxons had to make England function on its own. After many struggles, Englands future was starting to look bright. The Vikings would then invade England and lay siege on the kingdoms for the next few centuries. ...
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• Unpaid Royal Navy pension claims now online at National Archives UK

  
  Olive Tree Genealogy Blog — Authority: 486
  Next of kin claims for unpaid Royal Navy pensions 1830-1860 are now available to search and download online at National Archives UK.These records are applications for the unpaid wages or pensions of deceased officers or their widows.The records cover officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and civilian employees ...
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