#OTD 10/6/1960 #RememberRCN -The last flight of a Royal Canadian Navy Grumman Avenger, the aircraft was later struck off strength on 5 July 1960. Photo courtesy of @YAWMuseum
#OTD 10/6/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS TEME -River class frigate, almost cut in half abaft the bridge in collision with the escort aircraft carrier, HMS TRACKER, in the Bay of Biscay, killing 4 RCN sailors. Towed 200 miles to Cardiff by HMCS OUTREMONT for six months repairs.
Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian
Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian
Happy it-would-have-been-your-142nd-birthday, Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
On June 10, 1918 the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought Szent Istvan was sunk by two 18" torpedoes fired by the Italian MAS-15 during an attempted raid on the Otranto Barrage.
Her sinking was filmed from the dreadnought Tegetthoff.
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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]
