Recording ship losses of the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand day by day, remembering the fallen and honouring all who served. Corrections and additions welcome. No official affiliations. No AI used here! Also at Twitter/X.
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10 June 1942 // HM Drifter Trusty Star, a minesweeper based at Malta, was working as a danlayer off St Elmo's light when she hit a mine which had been seen too late for any avoiding action. She sank quickly but all her crew were rescued by other vessels. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
10 June 1782 // Captain Cook's former ship Resolution, now in service as a transport, was captured by two French warships off Nagapattinam while sailing from Madras to Trincomalee with a cargo of gunpowder and other stores for the fleet of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes. [1/2]
10 June 1855 // 12-gun brig-sloop HMS Nerbudda departed Algoa Bay, South Africa, on this date for Simon's Town, and was never seen again. Strong gales blew up immediately after her departure and it was presumed that she had foundered with the loss of all her 133 crew. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
10 June 1918 // A decoy or Q-ship, HMS Lowtyne (formerly Slingsby, a collier), was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.34 off Whitby. Three men from her crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
10 June 1917 // Torpedo boat TB.117 was run into by a cargo ship while patrolling near the Shingles bank in the Thames Estuary. She was cut in two by the impact and quickly sank, with three of her crew losing their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
10 June 1915 // While patrolling off Harwich, two torpedo boats, TB.12 and TB.10 were lost to mines laid by German submarine UC.11. TB.12 was mined on the afternoon of 9 June: she remained afloat at first and TB.10 was assisting her when she too struck a mine in the early hours of 10 June. [1/2]
10 June 1941 // Corvette HMS Pintail was sunk by a German mine off the Humber Estuary while assisting another mined vessel. She was destroyed by a violent explosion and sank in under three minutes. 55 of her 77 crew lost their lives. (Imperial War Museum A 7577) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
The Resolution was chased from daybreak to noon by the French ships Annibal (50 guns) and Sphinx (64 guns) but managed to evade capture until all the powder and stores she was carrying had been heaved overboard to deny them to Admiral Suffren's fleet. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
TB.10 had come alongside to take off TB.12's survivors, and had been preparing a tow when she was sunk by a mine. The tow was resumed by a trawler, but TB.12 steadily flooded, and late in the morning she too sank. 23 men were lost from TB.12 and 22 from TB.10. [2/2] #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
