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Photograph looking across the river towards Woolston, with some small boats in the foreground.

Looking across the River Itchen towards Woolston in the late nineteenth century.

🐉🌕 Lunar Sea Festival

Celebrate the Year of the Horse with a full day of cultural performances and family friendly activities. Enjoy dragon performances, music and dance, plus hands on activities for all ages.

📅 Sunday 22 February, 10am–4pm
🎟️ Free entry

https://loom.ly/NOg2rp8

Oooh, I've heard very good things - hope you enjoy 😊

The day after the Cape St. Vincent anniversary, it’s time to look at what arrived in the post yesterday: Roger Morriss on the Royal Navy 🌊 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

Launching of the Georgios Averof, March, 1910 at the Orlando Shipyard, Leghorn, Italy. She had been purchased by the Greek Goverment and funded by a bequest left by her namesake a wealthy businessman and benefactor.

The Georgios Averof was an Italian Pisa class armored cruiser laid down in 1907. Due to budget constraints, she was placed on sale by the Italian government and the Greeks made an immediate down-payment of 300,000 pounds, the money coming from a bequest of a wealthy benefactor. (1/4)
#NavalHistory

Map: Nuova Francia (Giacomo Gastaldi, 1556). Source: McGill University

💔 The tragic love affair bound to a phantom island.

The Isle of Demons became the setting for the marooning of the French noblewoman, Marguerite de La Rocque, and her lover when their affair was discovered during their transit to the New World in 1542.

#OTD in 1778, the Stars and Stripes received its first formal recognition from a foreign warship when the French ship of the line Robuste gave a nine-gun salute to the new U.S. flag flying on USS Ranger under the command of John Paul Jones.

Ford Motor Company factory, Singapore Hello readers of Pacific History Guide! Today we're going to take a brief look at a historic site in the center of Singapore - the grounds of the Ford Motor Company factory. It was here, on 15 Februar...

On today's blog: we're headed to the site of one of the most consequential military surrenders in #British history, and the #SecondWorldWar: the old Ford Motor Factory in #Singapore.

www.pacifichistoryguide.com/post/old-for...

A tribute to Water Tender Second Class Elmer Bigelow, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his gallant actions on board the USS Fletcher off Corregidor in February 1945. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/february/heros-sacrifice

Following the SAS deeper into Antarctica at Stonington Island. John Tonkin – no stranger to narrow escapes – faces another in the ice, while Mike Sadler receives another honour shortly before he passed away. See the full film at: youtu.be/-siOoUDzqGI?...

Take a bow 😁

Slightly different angle today at HMS Alliance

Part of a red woollen Jerkin, with thickened stripes running down the edges. It looks like the sort of thing they would have made Wesley Crusher wear in Star Trek TNG

A small blue-glazed jug with a yellow cross-cross pattern on the front. the handle is broken, and there is a cork in the top.

A piece of yellow/beige cloth cross-crossed with thick red lines

A leather shoe, with the exposed sole revealing a hole just under where the ball of the owner's foot would have been.

Woollen jerkins are red,
This small jug is blue
This undershirt was chequered
and there's a hole in this shoe.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

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A unit of Valentine Infantry Tanks Mk.III in the western desert in 1942. The foremost tank is likely a survivor of Operation CRUSADER as it looks as if the white/red/white marking on the turret and front track cover have only been overpainted in haste. Three men are on the tank, with one of them, likely the commander, peering through his binoculars for the photo opportunity. Likely IWM but I do it have the archive signature.

Valentine’s Day?

Already?

#besttankofthewar

I'm sure LLM-powered "autocorrect" has been up to some mischief there! Although I do wonder what oyster mittens would look like 😁

Billingsgate Market at 7am, London, 1937

Tower Bridge viewed from the River Thames, London, c1894-1931. Artist: William Lionel Wyllie

19th-century illustration of Thames Lightermen, London Labour and the London Poor, 1861 (Henry Mayhew).

Native oysters (Ostrea edulis) and rock oysters (usually Pacific oysters, Magallana gigas)

From the mud of the up through the waters under London Bridge and into the markets and bellies of its population! The path of the oyster, As old as London itself with oyster mittens being found on many of the earliest Roman sites. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

@deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social #earlymodern #maritimehistory ('Insolence' 😁)

So about Italian yard capacity...

It might be the wrong question to an extent.

@ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social

Commander Hugh Boyce DSC Royal Navy A few years ago, I approached Admiral of the Fleet Lord Michael Boyce to request he write a foreword for my second WW1 submarine novel, Where the Baltic Ice is Thin. When I was a junior officer on th...

Cdr Hugh Boyce DSC RN — heroic father of Admiral Lord Boyce and my connection. wix.to/as5xnl5 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2

OTD in 1778, the sloop-of-war Ranger commanded by John Paul Jones exchanged salutes with French warships in Quiberon Bay. This was the first time the Stars and Stripes was saluted by a foreign power.

#McMullen2025
#NavalHistory

As I'm putting the finishing touches on the next episode, I thought I'd give you a sneak peek at what's ahead in the Smith Thompson episode of Seat at the Table. Will he end up being a Cabinet All-Star? Tune in to find out! #history #POTUS #Monroe #Navy #NY

HMCS SAGUENAY and HMCS OTTAWA, 3rd Canadian Escort Squadron the "Cadillac Squadron", Key West Florida as part of Anti-submarine exercises with units of the US Navy (1957) (LAC e010777420-v8.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History

The tragedy of the POWs killed at sea Introduction Operation CRUSADER saw about 8,500 Commonwealth soldiers become prisoners of the Axis forces, in the fighting around Tobruk and during the counter offensive in January. See this older …

On 14 February 1942 HM/Sub P.38 under Lt. Hemingway D.S.C. sank SS Ariosto, an old Italian steamer carrying over 300 Allied PO from recent operations. She was a legitimate target. 138 POWs died on her.

14 Feb 1942 // Tug HMS Pengawal was sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Durian Strait near Singapore. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Feb 1942 // Tug HMS St Breock was sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Sumatra in the Berhala Strait. There were about 50 people on board, and 24 survivors were picked up. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary patrol vessel HMS Hungjao disappeared off eastern Sumatra after landing refugees from Singapore at Rengat. She was presumed to have been sunk by Japanese air attack, or scuttled following damage. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary minesweeper HMS Changteh, carrying refugees from Singapore, was damaged by a series of Japanese air attacks in the Durian Straits, and was abandoned after becoming immobilised, sinking with heavy loss of life. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary minesweeper HMS Fuh Wo, attempting to make her way to safety from Singapore independently after separating from HMS Li Wo, was beached, abandoned and burnt on Banka Island when it proved impossible to evade Japanese forces and escape. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

14 Feb 1942 // River gunboats HMS Grasshopper and HMS Dragonfly were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Banka Strait off eastern Sumatra while carrying evacuees from Singapore. 42 crew died in Grasshopper, 48 in Dragonfly. An unknown number of evacuees also died. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory