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Jamie McTrusty
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A fascinating woman but one who is now a Putin hardliner. Which is a shame.
This year has been great for female astronauts docs though, the Sally Ride doc, Sally, is superb and the Eileen Collins doc, Spacewoman, is really amazing. It was joy to meet Collins earlier this year.
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16 June 1944 // Submarine HMS Sickle was lost on or around this date in the eastern Mediterranean while returning to Malta from a patrol in the Aegean, presumed sunk by German mines. All 49 men in HMS Sickle died. (Imperial War Museum FL 19026) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
16 June 1942 // Light cruiser HMS Hermione was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.205 south of Crete while returning to Egypt from Malta convoy duty. 88 of her crew were killed, 498 were rescued by accompanying destroyers. (Imperial War Museum image A 5740) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
16 June 1944 // Frigate HMS Blackwood, torpedoed by German submarine U.764 in the Western Approaches on 15 June with 57 of her crew killed, sank off Portland Bill while under tow. (Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
16 June 1955 // Submarine HMS Sidon was sunk by an explosion caused by a faulty torpedo while alongside depot ship HMS Maidstone in Portland Harbour. 13 men lost their lives. Sidon was raised, and was sunk to serve as an ASDIC target in 1957. (Imperial War Museum FL 3632.) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
16 June 1942 // Destroyer HMAS Nestor, under tow to Alexandria after being heavily damaged in air raids on 15 June while escorting a convoy to Malta, was scuttled off Crete. She had been straddled by bombs, with four men killed and many injured, and was left in a sinking condition. [1/2]
15 June 1854 // Exploration vessel HMS Intrepid was abandoned in the Arctic, having become trapped in the ice during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. (Image: HMS Intrepid, right, and HMS Resolute overwintering at Melville Island 1853-4, via Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
15 June 1942, HMAS Nestor was severely damaged by near misses during an air attack while escorting convoy MW11 (Haifa - Valetta) through the Crete/Africa 'bomb alley' to reach Malta. MW11 was abandoned as AAA ammunition was running and the ships returned. Nestor was scuttled the next morning.
OTD June 15, 1954 Operation Alert is carried out in several major cities across the United States as a test of civil defense procedures in the event of a nuclear attack and involved civilians and all levels of government, all the way to the President.
#OTD Valentina Tereshkova is the 1st woman to fly in space, with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. On 16 June 2012, China successfully launched its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
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(An extract from N Class by L. J. Lind and M. A. Payne) At 1806, during a high level bombing attack, Nestor was straddled by three 1,000 pound bombs. One
