HALCYON class minesweeper HMS SPEEDWELL built 1935.
On 17 January 1942 SPEEDWELL stood by ss HARMATRIS after she had been torpedoed during Arctic Convoy PQ8 and assisted in towing her into comparative safety in Murmansk.
HALCYON class minesweeper HMS SPEEDWELL built 1935.
On 17 January 1942 SPEEDWELL stood by ss HARMATRIS after she had been torpedoed during Arctic Convoy PQ8 and assisted in towing her into comparative safety in Murmansk.
The image shows two RAF Supermarine Spitfires attacking a group of German minesweepers in the English Channel, the M-Boats responding with robust AA-fire.
This picture gives a good example of the nearly unbelieveable amount of German propaganda drawings and paintings, made during World War II. This
According to the caption, the photograph shows a sinking German minesweeper in WW 1.
The minesweeper belongs to the class M-Boot 1914 or 1915 (476/513 ts), together with their successor, the M-Boot 1916, the largest class of standardized minesweepers built during WW 1. 176 of these vessels were ord
HMS Spey photographed on the 5 June 1994 while part for the Fleet review to celebrate tyhe 50th anivessary of tyh D Day landiings,
HMS Spey was a River-class minesweeper launched in 1985 and sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1998 and renamed Pegasus, and then Bocaina.
All of the River Class minesweepers
Photographed at Cardiff in May 2000. I believe it may be one of the River Class minesweepers built in the mid 80's
I've inset pictures of the crests/badges on the funnel and bridge front plus the name plate.
Looks like it was visiting Cardiff, incognito!