The Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Exeter returns home to Devonport, Plymouth, from the Battle of the River Plate (1940) ~ Pathe News HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station. When World War II began in September 1939, the ship wa

A German weather ship and a submarine rescued five survivors from the sinking of the battleship Bismarck after British ships had to leave the area due to a perceived U-boat threat. The initial British rescue efforts by the heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire and the destroyer HMS Maori were halted, leaving the survivors in the water. The German submarine U-74 rescued three men, and the weather ship Sachsenwald picked up two more the following day, bringing the total number of survivors to 115. British

514K views · 3.1K reactions | The Sinking of HMS Antelope (F170)  Antelope took part in the Falklands War, arriving in the area of operations on 21 May 1982. Two days later, while on air defence duty at the entrance to San Carlos Water, protecting the beachhead established two days before, she came under attack by four Argentine A-4B Skyhawks of Grupo 5. | The British Falkland Islands & British Military | Facebook

ARA and FAA sinking HMS Invincible (Argentine Version of Events displayed in Video) British Version of Events from the log book of Lynx Helicopter Log book Entry: ESM AEW 1.30 hours ESM AEW 2.30 hours Scramble for jammer guard .30 minutes night The first sortie was uneventful. The second sortie wasn't. Nor for that matter was the third. So 6000 feet, way up ahead of the main force. Behind us in a line, on picket duty were three ships. Andromeda was to the north, Exeter in the middle and Avenger