Adventures of the Blackgang

historicaltimes:

HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982. Credit: Unknow Royal Navy official photographer

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Navy General Board  - An Admiral of the Royal Navy rides the high line as he transfers from the destroyer HMS Quadrant to the battleship USS Missouri in July of 1945.

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Admiralty M-class destroyer HMS Opal, is prepared for launch at the East Yard of William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, September 1915.

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HMS Nottingham, Gibraltar, 1982

oledavyjones:

dandy Jack Tar of RN serving on the Pomone. She was hulked in 1910 and served as a stationary training ship until 1922 when she was sold for scrap.

The photo appears to having been taken in Bombay. between 1900-1910)

HMS Pomone was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s

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anchors-aweigh-navy:

Amethyst class corvette HMS Sapphire in 1880. The Amethyst class were the last wooden-hulled warships built for the Royal Navy. 

HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874. She was sold for scrap on 24 September 1892. wikipedia

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hms-surprise:

HMS Warrior at Portsmouth’s No.10 dry dock undergoing a major refit. 

1872-1875 

HMS Warrior was a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61.

She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy’s torpedo training school.

The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to the Maritime Trust for restoration.

The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship.

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.  more

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All The Nice Girls by John Winton (1964)

John Winton joined the Royal Navy in 1949 and retired in 1963 as a Lieutenant-Commander. He is widely known as a novelist and historian of the sea. His books include Find, Fix and Strike: The Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-45 and War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay.

John Winton died in 2001.

greatwar-1914:

A Scottish factory worker shows off her tattoos. Her right arm bears emblems from her sweetheart’s Royal Navy warship. On her left are the names of friends who died minesweeping the North Sea. July 1917.

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The Correct Angle at Which the New Wrens Hat Is To Be Worn

Detail from a 1959 WRNS recruitment ad

The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women’s branch of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. WRNs included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics.

apostlesofmercy:

Elements of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet depart the Firth of Forth, 1914. Based at Rosyth, Scotland, the Grand Fleet maintained a ceaseless blockade of German trade throughout World War I. 

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Noël Coward’s In Which We Serve

Noël Coward’s In Which We Serve