The entire British Royal Navy mobilized to hunt down Bismarck, the pride of the Kriegsmarine, and on May 27, 1941, HMS Rodney ...

He commanded HMS Bronington for ten months during his ... His children were former King George VI and former King Edward VIII. He was Queen Elizabeth II's grandfather and according to the royal ...

When King George VI came to the throne in May 1937 ... The Queen and Prince Philip sailed to Spithead from Portsmouth, on HMS Endurance, to conduct the review of 167 naval, merchant and tall ...

LONDON, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP) - King George VI was born during the reign of a queen ... In 1916 he was aboard the HMS Collingwood when it was exposed to the heaviest firing in the battle of Jutland.

The King mentions that this is the second war most of his subjects will have lived through. He had served in World War One himself, seeing action as a turret officer aboard HMS Collingwood during ...

At age 17, he was a midshipman on HMS Bucchante, which docked in Port ... old future Queen taken by her father, the future King George VI, shows Charlotte with the royal family.