10K views · 50 reactions | Former HMS Scimitar, now known as MV Lady Jean, has been converted into a hospital boat and was shipped from Portsmouth to Africa to begin a new life in Lake Victoria - full story in comments ⚓ | The News, Portsmouth | Facebook

Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1940, HMS HOOD leads a small Task Group out of Scapa Flow, Orkney Island out into the North Atlantic. They are heading for the Faroe Islands and the gap between them and Iceland. This is one of 4 access points from the German bases around the Baltic, Norway and the North Sea out into the Atlantic. The other gaps are: • Shetland- Orkney Gap- dangerous due to British patrols both air and sea and minefields. • Orkney- Faroe Gap- wider area of sea but easily covered by air and

1.1M views · 33K reactions | UK’s Giant Warship  HMS Queen...

Filmed on September 25, 1958, HMS Victorious (R38) emerges from HM Portsmouth Dockyard after an extended 8-year modernisation period. She sports a full 8-degree angled deck, steam catapults and mirror landing system which, along with the huge 984 3D radar array, made her arguably the most modern carrier at that time. With her trials period complete, the ship left for a Mediterranean deployment. Later that day, the squadrons would join the ship at sea. The CO of 803 Squadron, Commander J D Russel