HMS Manchester, a relatively new cruiser armed with 12 six-inch calibre guns, had been hit by a single torpedo fired by an Italian motor torpedo boat lurking in the dark at about 1.10am on August ...

HMS Manchester light cruiser with the Home fleet based at Scarpa Flow Scotland. Whilst on Northern patrol duties she captured the German merchant ship ss Wahehe on 21 February 1940.

I joined the Navy as a boy at 15 1/2 and when the war broke out I was in the Indian Ocean on HMS Manchester. I came back on shore and was sent up to the Admiralty to start working in mine disposal.

HMS Urge: British submarine that mysteriously vanished in WW2 found off Malta. Experts say it appears the sub was hit by a mine while still on the surface and that nobody would have had a chance ...

HMS Manchester, a relatively new cruiser armed with 12 six-inch calibre guns, had been hit by a single torpedo fired by an Italian motor torpedo boat lurking in the dark at about 1.10am on August ...

I joined the Navy as a boy at 15 1/2 and when the war broke out I was in the Indian Ocean on HMS Manchester. I came back on shore and was sent up to the Admiralty to start working in mine disposal.

HMS Manchester, a relatively new cruiser armed with 12 six-inch calibre guns, had been hit by a single torpedo fired by an Italian motor torpedo boat lurking in the dark at about 1.10am on August ...