Archive for November, 2006

HMS Formidable, 1942 – Seafires returning – The Story

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

HMS Formidable, 1942 - Seafires returning

A Formidable History

Formidable Battle Honours

Matapan 1941, Crete 1941, Mediterranean 1941, North Africa 1942- 3, Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943, Artic Convoys 1943, “Mascot” 1943, Okinawa 1945, Japan 1945.

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useful facts + excellent stories about H.M. Schooner “Pickle”, carrying the news of the Battle of Trafalgar

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

H.M. Schooner "Pickle", carrying the news of the Battle of Trafalgar

“I have Urgent Dispatches”

A brief History of H M Schooner Pickle (Dec 1800 to 27 July 1808) – a ‘clever, fast schooner, coppered’.

The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, added her prestige to the journey of the Trafalgar Despatch, re enacted 200 years later as a commemoration of International importance.
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