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H.M.S. Ramillies, went to New Zealand, as the Senior escort ship, to take the first echelon of Troops, from Wellington , to the 2nd World War, to Port Suez, in 1940. Having been the first ever ...
Hardy was aboard his flagship, the formidable 74-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Ramillies, with a crew of about 650 hardened English sailors and Marines.
The following diary of the events around the D-Day Landings was written by my father, Edward Francis Wightman, who served as a Royal Navy Seaman/Gunner on board HMS Ramillies. Friday, 2 June 1944 ...
No. 07 — HMS Ramillies opening fire in full calibre shoot No. 08 — Heavy county class cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall in Indian Ocean before being sunk by Japanese carrier based dive ...
Lam Ping-yu (pictured) served in the British battleship HMS Ramillies all through the Normandy landings and beyond ...
PRINCE PHILIP's biographer, Gyles Brandreth, has opened up about a time when the Duke of Edinburgh has sternly corrected him on a piece of history from his personal past.
The visiting officers and crew of the HMS Ramillies on parade, turning into Victoria Ave, while the townsfolk line the streets and watch. Whanganui Regional Museum Collection Ref: 1805.976 On ...
He served on the HMS Ramillies initially, moving to the HMS Valiant shortly afterward and the HMS Wallace after that. He was a searchlight control officer, acting in a pivotal role against Italian ...
Lam, then 33, was serving on the British warship HMS Ramillies which, according to his diary, opened fire about an hour after HMS Warspite.
HMS Ramillies then went back to Portsmouth to have new guns fitted as the old guns were worn out. After this we sailed to the Mediterranean to join the US Task Force.