Message me if you want a friend, loved one or even a unit remembered during this period. Remembering Leading Seaman Timmy MacColl who went missing whilst on a run ashore in Dubai in 2012 with HMS WESTMINSTER. He has never been found. #Remember

Big game tonight for Chelsea, no better time to be playing Man Utd. Can’t see Chelsea losing this one 🔵🔵🔵

Feeling genuine hope that 2024 will finally see some justice for Simon Parkes and his family 🙏 We are so grateful for all the hard work and support going on behind the scenes and hope to bring some positive news soon ❤ Happy New Year shippers!

President of the Gib Scale Model Society, Jaydan Celecia invites everyone to pop in tomorrow to enjoy the displays. The exhibition is open on Sunday till 7pm at the Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery

#OnThisDay 1977 Sailors from HMS DANAE invited the escaped great train robber, Ronnie Biggs, on-board for a beer whilst alongside in Rio de Janeiro. At time it caused political and Royal Navy embarrassment but for me is a great example of the mischievous character of Jack

The Telegraph has revealed that in 2023 the UK government caved in to Spanish demands & cancelled a Red Arrows flight over Gibraltar. It also abandoned plans for HMS Queen Elizabeth to visit the British Overseas Territory Leaked memos show that the Governor of Gibraltar said

May 2nd 1982: Conqueror's third torpedo travels on, past Belgrano, to crash into ARA Hipolito Bouchard, but either a dud, or at the end of its run, it does not explode, still leaving the ship with four five-inch hull cracks around a large dent, which is enough to frighten them...

Surprise surprise Day one of Starmer Govt … & he’s launched the EU Rejoin “Re-negotiation” my arse THIS is the nature of Starmer’s Labour - LIES. Focusing on what they refused to discuss. They avoided it bcos they knew it would lose votes Leopards & spots

#OnThisDay 1816 boats from HMS BANN captured the Spanish Slaver Rosa at the mouth of the Kerefe River, Sierra Leone freeing 276 slaves. Bann was part of the Royal Navy West Africa Squadron which during its existence freed over 150,000 African Slaves bound for the Americas.

#OnThisDay 1972 Guatemala threatened to invade British Honduras now #Belize 2500 miles away Fleet Carrier HMS ARK ROYAL was ordered at full speed to the area. Off Bermuda she launched 4 Buccaneers to assert Royal Navy air power from over 1200 miles away and prevent any incursion

#OnThisDay 1829 HMS BLACK JOKE captures Spanish slaver, Almirante off Africa freeing 400+ slaves bound for Cuba.Part of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, BLACK JOKE was prolific in defeating many slavers and the squadron freed over 160,000. The name refers to a drinking song

#OnThisDay 1797 a Royal Navy Fleet under Admiral Jervis in HMS VICTORY defeated a Spanish Fleet off Portugal at Cape St Vincent. The battle also featured one Horatio Nelson in HMS CAPTAIN & Cuthbert Collingwood in HMS EXCELLENT. The victory was a success of teamwork #C2DRIL

People often seem to forget that the Falklands wasn't a "white man's war" and that the UK fought with a multiracial force. Here's some images of black British Paras in the war, and curiously, at Goose Green, many Argentines somehow believed they were facing African mercenaries!!

17 Mars 1891 – Horrible accident du paquebot SS Utopia avec le HMS Anson près de Gibraltar Catastrophe à Gibraltar dans l’histoire maritime- naufrage SS Utopia nimareja.fr/17-mars-1891/

SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board, today in 1891

March 17th 1982: Royal Navy ships depart the UK under Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward for the annual Exercise Springtrain, which in all, will contain 18 British warships and RFAs including County Class Destroyers HMS Antrim (Flagship) and Glamorgan... (continues)

April 30th 1982: Argentine Intransigence has just cost the Junta dearly as President Reagan orders C5 Galaxy Aircraft to start supplying the base at Ascension with anything the UK wants or needs to finish the war and bring Argentina down as swiftly as possible... (cont's)

4) Less well known is that the UK were picking up stores, especially Sidewinder, and racing them back from the States via Concorde, then distributing to the task force via C-130 Hercules... the AIM-9L Sidewinders didn't reach the Task Force, however, until the very end of May.