Escaped convict pulled from Solent after stolen boat sunk
Arthur Anderson, 38, owed his life to a Royal Navy pilot who spotted him after a boat he had stolen sank beneath him.
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Arthur Anderson, 38, owed his life to a Royal Navy pilot who spotted him after a boat he had stolen sank beneath him.
The Government needs to increase defence spending now to make sure we are prepared for future conflict
Named in honor of the deceased ruler of the United Kingdom, HMS King George V was laid down on New Year’s Day 1937, launched on February 21, 1939, and commissioned on October 1, 1940, thus becoming the second warship to bear the monarch’s name, the first one being a 1911 vintage battleship.
Perched at his post above the bridge of the destroyer HMS Scorpion, 21-year-old sub-lieutenant Tony Ditcham stared through his binoculars searching for the German battlecruiser.
Germany decided to build Pocket Battleships - or what some call giant cruisers - for some obvious reasons. They did not fare very well in naval combat.