Aidan Edward Toase. Humphrey Woods .Captain Bell .Marine Russel .Commodore Harwood . Captain A.E.Toase The Royal Marines HMS Exeter Historical background Since the war started, a German battleship, ...

Across the Atlantic, the hunt for the German warship Admiral Graf Spee had stretched the resolve of the Allied forces to its breaking point. This ship had been wreaking havoc on Allied supply routes ...

British cruiser H.M.S. Exeter being cheered by sailors and dock workers as she is brought alongside the quay at Plymouth, England, on Feb. 15, 1940. Rider AP The HMS Exeter, a heavy cruiser in the ...

War grave HMS Exeter is being plundered for scrap metal and the bodies of sailors who drowned aboard her are being dumped in mass graves. Reports in Indonesian media say dredgers have been operating ...

Two British shipwrecks dating from World War II have "vanished" from the floor of the Java Sea, and several others have been partially removed, in raids blamed on illegal scrap metal salvage operators ...

A Devon football club has been adopted by a Royal Navy destroyer and its crew. Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender had become a partner of Exeter City FC, the navy said. Wherever the ship travelled in the ...

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