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Graph at Holy Loch, Scotland, after she had ceased active service and been reassigned for training use (20 April 1943)
Posted inMaritime & Naval History World War 2

U-Boat Sinks U-Boat

The German submarine U570, captured in August 1941, has since been carrying out patrols under the White Ensign, manned by a specially selected and specially trained crew of the Royal Navy’s submarine service. The particular object of her patrols was to seek out, and, if possible, destroy craft of her own kind.

Decorative banner for the Court and Haut Ton series
Posted inBiographical Culture & Society Politics

The Court and Haut Ton – May 14, 1842

Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in town at half-past four o’clock on Monday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Claremont. The equerries in waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Wylde, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and their attendants, occupied another carriage ; and the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, lady in waiting, and Lord Byron, lord in waiting, were in the last carriage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Colville, lord in waiting on Prince Albert.

The Crisis at Zanzibar, British War-Ships engaged in the Bombardment of the Sultan's Palace. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 5 September 1896. Includes HMS St George and HMS Philomel at Zanzibar Town during the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, and HMS ships Sparrow, Racoon, and Thrush
Posted inColonization & Indigenous Relations Maritime & Naval History Politics

The Bombardment Of Zanzibar

FLIGHT OF THE PRETENDER.

SURRENDER TO THE GERMAN CONSUL.

THE NEW SULTAN.

When the news of the bombardment of the Sultan’s Palace, in which the Pretender to the Sultanate and his followers had taken up a defiant position, reached London, there were naturally many enquiries at the Foreign Office as to the correctness of the report. Up to comparatively late in the afternoon no official information had come to hand at the Foreign Office, and when his Excellency the German Ambassador called at the Foreign Office to see Lord Salisbury and assumed the correctness of the report that Said Khalid was a prisoner, the officials were unable to either confirm or deny the rumour.