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several new events were described in detail in our special thread

21 August 1673 - The naval Battle of Texel or Battle of Kijkduin
21 August 1635 - Dunkirk squadron under Jacob Collaart (see Dunkirkers) defeat Dutch guardships and captures 60 fishing trawlers
21 August 1799 - HMS Clyde (1796 - 38), Cptn. Charles Cunningham, captured the French frigate Vestale (1781 -32) in the mouth of the Garonne.
21 August 1808 – Launch of Dalmate, a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy
21 August 1810 - Launch of Capri, a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the Real Marina of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
21 August 1823 – Launch of Algésiras, an 80-gun Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Sané
21 August 1846 – Launch of HMS Thetis, a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, later SMS Thetis of prussian Navy
21 August 1883 - USS Trenton (1876) get Pioneer in Electricity for US Naval Vessels

22 August 1638 - The Battle of Getaria or the Battle of Guetaria, Action of 22 August 1638
22 August 1696 - Battle of Andros - Venetians under Contarini vs Turks and their allies under Mezzo Morto near island Andros
22 August 1711 - Britain´s Quebec Expedition, or the Walker Expedition to Quebec, was ending with a disaster with the loss of eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais
22 August 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
22 August 1778 - Launch of french frigate Bellone (1778 - 32 - Iphigenie-class)
22 August 1796 - HMS Galatea (1794 - 32) drove the frigate L'Andromaque (1778 – 48 (mounted 40) – Nymphe-class), on shorenear Arcasson, where she was completely destroyed by HMS Sylph (18) on the 23rd.
22 August 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America
22 August 1942 - Destroyer USS Ingraham collided with the oil tanker USS Chemung in heavy fog off the coast of Nova Scotia and Ingraham sank almost immediately. Only 11 survived from 200

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Great info, Uwe, thanks for your effort!
Janos

Hallo Janos and all others,
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several new events were described in detail in our special thread

23 August 1766 - Launch of HMS Carysfort, 28-gun Coventry-class frigate
23 August 1774 – Launch of HMS Boreas, a 28 gun Mermaid-class frigate - H. Nelson commanded her 1784 to 1787
23 August 1785 – Birth of Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (d. 1819) and "Hero of Lake Erie"
23 August 1813 - HMS Colibri Sloop (16), John Thomson, wrecked in crossing the bar of Port Royal, Jamaica.
23 August 1819 - Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, dies on board the schooner USS Nonsuch on his 34th birthday
23 August 1884 - The Battle of Fuzhou, or Battle of Foochow,
23 August 1890 - USS Baltimore (Cruiser #3) departs New York Harbor to return the remains of inventor John Ericsson to his native Sweden.
23 August 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.

24 August 1217 – Battle of Sandwich and Death of Eustace the Monk, French pirate
24 August 1499 - spanish navigator Alonso de Ojeda leads the first Europeans arriving with three caravels in the gulf of Venezuela and Lake Maracaibo.
24 August 1733 – HMS Warwick 60-gun Completed
24 August 1774 – Launch of HMS Enterprise, a 28 gun Enterprise-class frigate
24 August 1782 – Launch of Censeur a french 74-gun Pégase-class at Rochefort
24 August 1786 – Launch of HMS Elephant, a 74 gun Arrogant-class
24 August 1789 - The First Battle of Svensksund
24 August 1798 - HMS Naiad (1797 - 38) and HMS Magnanime (1780 - 44) captured the French frigate Decade(1794/1798 - 36) off Cape Finisterre
24 August 1848 - Ocean Monarch was an emigration barque caught fire at sea and sank with the loss of 178 lives
24 August 1912 - The collier, USS Jupiter, is launched. The vessel is the first electrically-propelled Navy ship.
24 August 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of 7 officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged

25 August 1803 - HMS Seagull (16), Henry Burke, defeated East Indiaman Lord Nelson (late British) which was then boarded by boats of HMS Colossus (74)
25 August 1819 – Launch of French Souverain, 118 gun Ocean-class type ship of the Line
25 August 1835 - Launch of HMS Vanguard
25 August 1843 - Steam frigate USS Missouri arrives at Gibralter completing first Trans-Atlantic crossing by U.S. steam powered ship - and burned by accident

26 August 1652 - Battle of Plymouth
26 August 1808 - HMS Implacable (74), Cptn. Thomas Byam Martin, and HMS Centaur (74), Cptn. W. H. Webley, captured Russian Vsevelod (74),

27 August 1814 – HMS Avon, a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1805, captured by USS Wasp, abandoned and sunk
27 August 1816 - The Bombardment of Algiers
27 August 1824 – Launch of french Suffren, a 90 gun ship oft he line and lead ship of her class
27 August 193 - Columbian Naval Review in harbour of New York
27 August 1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history
27 August 1896 - His Highness' Ship HHS Glasgow sunk by british forces in Zanzibar
27 August 1931 - The Flugschiff ("flying ship") Dornier Do X reached after a monthly journey the harbour of New York City.
27 August 1942 - Launch of USS Iowa (BB 61)

28 August 1597 - The naval Battle of Chilcheollyang
28 August 1652 - The naval Battle of Elba (or Battle of Monte Cristo)
28 August 1760 - Launch of HMS Essex
28 August 1779 - Launch of HMS Montague

29 August 1781 - Raid on Annapolis Royal

30 August 1757 – Launch of HMS Diana, a 32 gun Southampton class Fifth rate frigate
30 August 1777 – Launch of French La Sibylle, a 32 gun Sibylle-class frigate
30 August 1791 – HMS Pandora (1779 - 24 - Porcupine-class post ship) sinks
30 August 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet surrendered to the British navy
30 August 1791 – Launch of French Sibylle, a 38 gun Hebe-class frigate, later HMS Sybille
30 August 1948 - HMS Worcester foundered at river Thames

31 August 1591 - The Battle of Flores - (galleon Revenge sinking)
31 August 1772 - Launch of HMS Prince George, a 90 gun Barfleur-class Ship of the Line
31 August 1799 – Launch of French Chiffone, a 38 gun Heureuse-class frigate
31 August 1810 – Launch of HMS Galatea, a 36 gun Apollo-class frigate
31 August 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner SS Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

1 September 1784 – Launch of HMS Hussar, a 28 gun Enterprise frigate
1 September 1800 - During the Quasi-War with France, the schooner, USS Experiment, commanded by Lt. Charles Stewart, captures the French privateer Deux Amix
1 September 1814 - The sloop-of-war, USS Wasp, commanded by Johnston Blakely, sinks the British brig sloop, HMS Avon

2 September 1773 – Launch of HMS Fox, a 28 gun Enterprise frigate
2 September 1777 - The frigate USS Raleigh, commanded by Thomas Thompson, captures the British brig, HMS Nancy,
2 September 1787 – Launch of French ship Duquesne, a 74 gun Temeraire class
2 September 1807 – Launch of French ship Hautpoult, a 74 gun Temeraire class
2 September 1866 - Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro hit two mines on 2 September and rapidly sank
2 September 1945 - The Japanese Instrument of Surrender

3 September - HMS Coronation (1685 - 90) and HMS Harwich (1674 - 70) sank in a storm whilst attempting to get into Plymouth Sound, appr. 1.000 of their crews drowned
3 September 1777 - Launch of HMS Lion, a 64 gun Worcester-class Ship of the Line
3 September 1777 – Launch of French Le Concorde, a 32 gun Concorde-class frigate, later HMS Concorde
3 September 1782 - The Ship of the Line USS America is given to France to replace the French ship, Magnifique, which ran aground
3 September 1782 - Battle of Trincomalee, the fourth action between Hughes and Suffren
3 September 1783 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolution and the War of Independance. The United States is acknowledged as a sovereign and independent nation.
3 September 1803 – Launch of HMS Illustrious, a 74 gun Fame-class Ship of the Line
3 September 1811 - A Court of Inquiry began to sit, to investigate the conduct of Commodore Rodgers, USS President respecting his affair with HMS Little Belt
3 September 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames
3 September 1913 – Launch of HMS Erin, a Reşadiye-class dreadnought battleship, originaly designed for the Ottoman Navy
3 September 1939 - The SS Athenia was the first UK ship to be sunk by Germany, 117 civilian passengers and crew were killed with the sinking condemned as a war crime.
3 September 1939 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic
3 September 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile
3 September 1954 – The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry

The first event of the above mentioned list you can find here:

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In the meantime it is already one month ago, when I made the latest update of the summary
several new events were described in detail in our special thread - Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History

4 September 1733 - Launch of French Diamant 50 guns at Toulon,
4 September 1758 - Launch of HMS Stag, a 32 gun Niger-class frigate
4 September 1762 – Launch of HMS Terrible, a 74 gun Ramillies class Ship of the Line
4 September 1781 – Launch of HMS Anson, a 64 gun Intrepid class Ship of the Line
4 September 1781 – Launch of HMS Anson, a 64 gun Intrepid class Ship of the Line (Part II - Intrepid-class)
4 September
1782 - Action of 4 September 1782 - HMS Rainbow (44) took French frigate Hebe (40) off the Ile de Bas.
4 September
1794 – Launch of French Minerve, a 40 gun Modified / enlarged Minerve-class frigate
4 September 1804 - The bomb-ketch USS Intrepid outfitted as fireship, blew up in failed attack on Tripoli with loss of all hands.

5 September 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship, the Pelican, defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay
5 September 1758 – Launch of HMS Cerberus
, a 28 gun Coventry-class frigate
5 September 1770 - a joung boy, William Bligh, entered as able seaman on HMS Hunter
5 September 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War:
5 September 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake
- Order of battle
5 September 1813 - The schooner USS Enterprise captures the brig HMS Boxer off Portland, Maine in a 20-minute battle where both commanding officers die in battle.
5 September 1813 - Launch of french Scipion,
a 74 gun Téméraire-class ship of the line, at Genoa
5 September 1819 – Launch of HMS Seringapatam, a 46 gun Seringapatam frigate, at Bombay

6 September 1781 - HMS Savage (1778 - 14), Charles Stirling, taken by American privateer Congress (1781 - 24), Cptn. Gedded, off Charleston
6 September 1800 - Loss of HMS Stag (1794 - 32)
6 September 1807 – Launch of French Ville de Berlin,
a 74-gun Téméraire class Ship of the Line at Antwerp
6 September 1808 - HMS Recruit (1806 - 18), Chas. Napier, engaged French sloop Diligente (1801 - 18) off Antigua.
6 September 1810 – Launch of French Rivoli, a 74 gun temeraire class ship of the line
6 September 1814 - USS Tigress, captured by british 3 days before, captured schooner Scorpion in Lake Huron
6 September 1814 - Beginning of Battle of Plattsburgh (6 – 11 September 1814)
6 September 1842 – Launch of HMS Superb
, a 80 gun Vanguard-class Ship of the Line
6 September 1870 - HMS Captain capsized with the loss of nearly 500 lives because of design and construction errors that led to inadequate stability.

7 September 1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
7 September 1753 – Launch of French Guerrier, a 74-gun Magnifique-class Ship of the LIne, at Toulon
7 September 1775 - During the American Revolution, the British supply ship Unity is taken by the Continental schooner, Hannah, paid for by Army Gen. George Washington. It is the first prize taken by a Continental vessel.
7 September 1776 – Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbo
r
7 September 1797 – Launch of USS Constellation, the second of the original six frigates
7 September 1804 - Loss of West Indiaman Christopher, ex Duguay Trouin and HMS Duguay Trouin at Charleston in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane.
7 September 1811 - HMS Barbadoes (1804 - 28) and HMS Goshawk (1806 - 16) engaged seven French brigs
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7 September 1825 - The frigate USS Brandywine receives the Marquis de Lafayette on board for return to France
7 September 1838 – paddlesteamer Forfarshire wrecked, giving rise to the rescue for which Grace Darling is famed.
7 September 1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.


8 September 1298 - Battle of Curzola (today Korčula, southern Dalmatia, now in Croatia)
8 September 1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor
8 September 1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
8 September 1892 – sinking of the SS Charles W. Wetmore
8 September 1914 - RMS Oceanic, a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line run aground and wrecked
8 September 1923 - At Honda Point, Calif., seven destroyers are run aground due to bad weather, strong currents, and faulty navigation. Twenty-three lives are lost during the disaster.
8 September1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
8 September 1943 - Operation Zitronella (Lemon Flavour), also known as Operation Sizilien (Sicily), was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen


9 September - Birthdays and Days of Death - Birth of Cornelis Tromp, Dutch general / Birth of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder / Birth of William Bligh, English admiral and politician
9 September 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
9 September 1763 – Launch of HMS Solebay, a Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy
9 September 1780 – Launch of French Sceptre,
a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
9 September 1796 - The Action of 9 September 1796
9 September 1943 – Sinking of Italian battleship Roma by airbomb


10 September 1759 -The Battle of Frisches Haff or Battle of Stettiner Haff
10 September 1813 - The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay,


11 September 1758 – Battle of Saint Cast - France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
11 September 1778 - Capture of HMS Fox by french Junon
11 September 1779 – Launch of french Lutine, a 32 gun Magicienne-class frigate, later HMS Lutine
11 September 1781 - HMS Richmond (1757 – 32 – Richmond-class) and HMS Iris (1776 - 28 - ex-USS Hancock), were taken when the french fleet under the Comte de Grasse returned at the Chesabeake
11 September 1781 - HMS Terrible (1762 - 74) was burnt as unseaworthy due to damage received at the Battle of the Chesapeake
11 September 1786 – Launch of HMS Royal Sovereign, a 100-gun first rate ship of the line
11 September 1798 - Launch of HMS Temeraire, a 98-gun ship of the Neptune-class
11 September 1809 – Launch of HMS Manilla, a 44 gun Apollo-class frigate
11 September 1861 – Launch of USS Kearsarge , a Mohican-class sloop-of-war
11 September 1919 – Launch of RMS Arundel Castle, British Ocean Liner
11 September 1943 - During the Salerno, Italy operations, USS Savannah (CL 42) is hit by a German guided bomb. The explosion kills nearly 200 of her crew, but she remains under her own power to return to the U.S. for repairs.


12 September 1711 - The Battle of Rio de Janeiro (12. - 22. September 1711)
12 September 1764 – Launch of HMS Saint Albans, a 64 gun St Albans-class Ship of the Line
12 September 1806 – Launch of french brig Cygne, a 16-gun Abeille-class brig - Part 1 - Naval Event
12 September 1806 – Launch of french brig Cygne, a 16-gun Abeille-class brig
- Part 2 - Monographie Jean Boudriot
12 September 1814 - The Battle of Baltimore (12. - 15. September 1814)
12 September 1857 – The SS Central America sinks
12 September 1869 – SS Carnatic wrecked
12 September 1882 – HMS Phoenix, a Doterel-class sloop wrecked
12 September 1905 - japanese battleship Mikasa sinks after accidentally explosion
12 September
1942 – Ocean liner RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life

13 September 1653 – English 200-ton warship Swan / HMS Swann (1641 - 12) sunk in storm
13 September - Launch of several french ships
13 September 1799 - HMS Arrow (1796 - 28) and HMS Wolverine (1798 - 16) captured Batavian Draak (24) and Gier(14), two days later Dolphin (1799 - 24)
13 September 1801 - HMS Lark (16), Lt. Johnstone, captured Spanish privateer schooner Esperance
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13 September 1803 - Death of John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803)
13 September 1810 - Action of 13 September 1810 - HMS Africaine (38), Cptn. Robert Corbett (Killed in Action), taken by Astree (38) andIphigenie (38), but re-taken by HMS Boadicea (38), Cptn. Josias Rowley - Part 1 Naval Event
13 September 1810 - Action of 13 September 1810 - HMS Africaine (38), Cptn. Robert Corbett (Killed in Action), taken by Astree (38) and Iphigenie (38), but re-taken by HMS Boadicea (38), Cptn. Josias Rowley - Part 2 The Ships
13 September 1858 - SS Austria was a steamship of the Hamburg America Line in one of the worst transatlantic maritime disasters of the nineteenth century,
claiming the lives of 449 passengers and crew..

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https://www.shipsofscale.com/sosfor...ime-events-in-history.2104/page-24#post-38914

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several new events were described in detail in our special thread - Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History

14 September 1779 - HMS Pearl (1762 – 32 – Niger-class) took Spanish frigate Santa Monica (32) off the Western Islands
14 September 1782 - Destruction of floating batteries at Gibraltar
14 September 1825 - Launch of HMS Princess Charlotte, 104 gun Princess Charlotte-class First Rate
14 September 1848 – Launch of French Henri IV, a 100 gun Hercule class at Cherbourg
14 September 1852 – Launch of French Jean Bart, 90 gun Suffren class Ship of the Line
14 September 1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands

15 September 1806 - HMS Anson (1781 - 64) engaged French Foudroyant (1800 - 80)
15 September 1808 - French frigate Canonniere (1794 - 44), Cptn. Bourayne, captured HMS Laurel (1806 - 22)
15 September 1814 - HMS Hermes (1811 - 20), Cptn. Hon. William Henry Percy, and HMS Sophie (18), Cptn. Lockyer, engaged Fort Bowyer
15 September 1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar
15 September 1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny
15 September 1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal

16 September 1782 - The Central Atlantic hurricane of 1782, was a hurricane that hit the fleet of British Admiral Thomas Graves as it sailed across the North Atlantic in September 1782. It is believed to have killed some 3,500 people.
16 September 1814 - A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte,
16 September 1823 - Samuel Southard becomes the seventh Secretary of the Navy,
16 September 1841 – Launch of French Forte, a 60 gun Surveillante-class frigate, at Cherbourg
16 September 1888 - HMS Lily, an Arab-class composite gunvessel wrecked on the coast of Labrador
16 September 1918 - HMS Glatton suffered a large fire in one of her 6-inch magazines, and had to be scuttled to prevent an explosion of her main magazines that would have devastated Dover.

17 September 1625 - The Recovery of Ré Island
17 September 1765 - Launch of HMS Canada, a 74 gun Canada-class Ship of the Line
17 September 1797 - HMS Pelican (1795 - 18), Lt. Thomas White (Act.), destroyed French privateer Trompeur (12) off St. Domingo
17 September 1803 – Launch of French Suffren, a 74 gun Short Variant (Suffren-group) of the Temeraire class
17 September 1807 - HMS Barbara (1806 - 10), Lt. Edward D'Arcy, captured by privateer General Ernouf (1805 - 14)
17 September 1840 - Caiffa captured by HMS Castor (1832 – 36 – Castor-class), Cptn. Edward Collier, and HMS Pique (36)
17 September 1864 - Launch of French Intrépide , a 90 gun Algesiras- class steamship of the line (sub-class of the Napoleon-class), renamed Borda
17 September 1887 – Launch of SS Oceana, a P&O passenger liner and cargo vessel,
17 September 1894 – Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
17 September 1894 – Death of Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (b. 1849)
17 September 1895 - The battleship USS Maine is commissioned.
17 September 1939 – World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous
17 September 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives

18 September 1740 - George Anson's voyage around the world begins in Spithead
18 September 1778 – Launch of French Auguste, a 80-gun Third Rate Ship of the Line ("vaisseaux de 80") at Brest
18 September 1781 – Re-Launch of French Couronne (later Ça Ira) , a 80-gun Third rate purpose built Ship of the Line at Brest
18 September 1804 - The Battle of Vizagapatam - HMS Centurion (50) engaged French Marengo (74), Atalante (40) and Semillante(36) in Vizagapatam Road

18 September 1810 - The Action of 18 September 1810
18 September 1846 - Birth of Richard Bernhard With
18 September 1849 - Launch of SMS Niobe, a Diamond-class 28-gun sixth-rate sailing frigate built for the Royal Navy, but sold to Prussia.
18 September 1860 - The sloop of war, USS Levant, sails from Hawaii for Panama. She is never seen again.
18 September 1876 – Launch of french ironclad Redoutable
18 September 1903 – Launch of german pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Hessen
18 September 1940 – World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48;
248 died, those killed include 77 child refugees.

18 September 1944 - Jun'yō Maru, a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was attacked and sunk in 1944 by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, resulting in the loss of over 5,600 lives.
18 September 1998 - MV Princess of the Orient, a passenger ferry owned by Sulpicio Lines, sank off Fortune Island, off Batangas province in the Philippines, 150 of the 388 passengers lost their life

19 September 1670 – Launch of Terrible and Tonnant, two french Ships of the line at Brest at the same day -> strange fact in addition: both wrecked at the same day at the same location in 1678
19 September 1758 – Launch of HMS Alarm, a 32 gun Niger-class frigate, she was later the first ship in the Royal Navy to have a fully copper-sheathed hull
19 September 1777 - During the American Revolution, the British cutter HMS Alert captures the brig USS Lexington
19 September
1779 – Launch of French Scipion, a 74 gun Scipion-class Ship of the line
19 September 1782 - French Ville de Paris 90-gun Ship of the Line sank in a storm
19 September 1785 - Launch of French Fougueux, 74 gun Téméraire class Ship of the Line at Lorient
19 September 1807 – Launch of HMS Sultan, a 74 gun Fame-class ship of the line
19 September 1813 – Launch of USS Peacock, sloop of the war
19 September 1898 – Launch of Japanese armored cruiser Izumo
19 September 1941 – Launch of japanese Taiyo, escort carrier of the Taiyo-class

20 September 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
20 September 1715 – Re-Launch of HMS Royal George
20 September 1759 – Launch of HMS Milford, a 28 gun Coventry-class frigate
20 September 1766 - Launch of HMS Magnificent, a 74-gun Ramillies-class third-rate ship of the line
20 September 1778 – Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852)
20 September 1799 - HMS Rattlesnake (1799 - 16) and armed storeship HMS Camel (1782 - 26) engaged French frigate Preneuse (1794 - 46) in Algoa Bay - Action known also as Battle of Algoa Bay
20 September 1807 – Launch of French Pultusk, a 74-gun Pluton class Ship of the Line at Antwerp
20 September 1839 – Death of Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
20 September 1874 – Launch of armored frigate / turret ship SMS Friedrich der Große of german Kaiserliche Marine
20 September 1899 - Launch of Ocean liner SS Rhein, later USS Susquehanna
20 September 1906 – The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
20 September 1906 - Launch of RMS Adriatic
20 September 1908 - Star of Bengal struck the rocks near the shore of Coronation Island and sunk, killing approximately 110 of 138 people aboard

20 September 1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
20 September 1911 – The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke
20 September 1911 – Launch of P-liner Passat

21 September 1742 - HMS Tilbury (1733 - 60) burnt by accident off Hispaniola
21 September 1757 - French Emeraude (1744 - 28) captured by HMS Southampton (1757 - 32)
21 September 1782 - HMS Centaur (1759 - 74) foundered in severe gale off Newfoundland banks.
21 September 1785 – Launch of HMS Lapwing, a 28 gun Enterprise class frigate
21 September 1785 – Launch of HMS Romulus, a 36 gun Flora-class frigate
21 September 1790 – Launch of French Prudente, a 32 gun Capricieuse class frigate at Lorient
21 September 1791 – Launch of French Thémistocle, a 74-gun Téméraire-class ships of the line, at Lorient
21 September 1802 – French Conquérant 74 (1791, ex-Spanish Conquistador, obtained 1801) – disarmed in Brest
21 September 1811 - HMS Naiad (1797 - 38) with HMS Redpole (10), HMS Rinaldo (10), HMS Castilian (18) andHMS Viper (4) again attacked off Boulogne, but the enemy fled as before, leaving one praam Ville de Lyon (12) taken by Naiad.
21 September 1850 - barque Jenny Lind wrecked at Kenn Reef
21 September 1905 – Launch of SS America, later USS America
21 September 1957 - Pamir, a four-masted barque one of the famous Flying P-Liners, caught in Hurricane Carrieand sank off the Azores, with only six survivors rescued after an extensive search.

22 September 1655 – Launch of HMS Dartmouth, a 22 gun frigate
22 September 1692 – Launch of French Royal Louis, 110 guns at Toulon
22 September 1776 - John Paul Jones in Providence sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet - The Raid on Canso
22 September 1796 - HMS Amphion (1780 - 32), Cptn. Israel Pellew, caught fire at Plymouth and violently exploded alongside a sheer-hulk.
22 September 1796 – Launch of Furieuse, a 38 gun frigate of the Seine-class
22 September 1797 - HMS Hermione (1782 - 32) handed over to the Spanish by her mutinous crew at La Guir
22 September 1857 – The Russian ship of the line Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
22 September 1907 - Launch and Sinking of SS Principessa Jolanda
22 September 1914 -The Action of 22 September 1914
22 September 1914 - Bombardment of Papeete
22 September 1943 - Operation Source (20-22. September 1943) - Battleship Tirpitz heavily damaged

23 September 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden
23 September 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
23 September 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.
23 September 1664 – French Tigre (1642 - 28) - sank off Sardinia
23 September 1699 – Launch of french Hermione, a 30 gun Hermione-class frigate + one day later on 24 September her sister Meduse was also launched, both in Brest
23 September 1778 – Launch of French Médée, Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate
23 September 1779 - The Battle of Flamborough Head - Part I
23 September 1779 - The Battle of Flamborough Head - Part II
23 September 1782 - Launch of HMS Thetis, a Minerva-class frigate
23 September 1801 – Launch of HMS Aigle, a 36 gun Aigle class frigate
23 September 1809 – Launch of HMS Curacoa, a 36 gun Apollo-class frigate
23 September 1858 - Launch of HMS Donegal, a 101-gun Conqueror-class
23 September 1901 – Launch of submarine USS Porpoise, a Plunger class


24 September 1695 - HMS Winchester (1693 - 60) foundered off Cape Florida
24 September 1757 - HMS Tilbury (1745 - 58) wrecked and HMS Ferret (1743 - 14) foundered off Louisburg during a hurricane
24 September 1762 - Battle of Manila
24 September 1787 - Sir John Jervis and Adam Duncan promoted to Rear-Admiral and Samuel Hood promoted Vice-Admiral of the Blue
24 September 1803 – Launch of french Cassard, a 74 gun Large Variant Téméraire class Ship of the Lin
24 September 1856 - sidewheel steamer Niagara kept fire and sunk on Lake Michigan close to port Washington
24 September 1895 – Launch of HMS Quail (1895), Quail class destroyer
24 September 1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.


25 September 1732 - Re-Launch of HMS Marlborough, ex HMS St.Michael (Saint Michael)
25 September 1759 - Launch of HMS Niger, the leadship of the 32-gun Niger-class frigates
25 September 1779 - Bonhomme Richard sinks two days after the Battle of Flamborough Head
25 September 1786 - Launch of HMS Theseus, a 74 gun Culloden-class Ship of the line
25 September 1794 – Launch of French Artémise, a 32-gun Magicienne class frigate of the French Navy in Toulon. 4 years earlier, on 26 September 1790 sistership Topaze was launched. All ships of this class were built in Toulon

25 September 1794 - Launch of French Romaine, lead ship of the Romaine-class frigates at Le Havre
25 September 1806 - The Action of 25 September 1806
25 September 1809 - HMS Carieux Sloop (18) wrecked off Petit Terre, Island of Marigalante, West Indies
25 September 1858 - Launch of transatlantic steamer SS Hungarian
25 September 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked
25 September 1880 – Gussie Telfair ex USS Gertrude wrecked
25 September 1897 - Launch of SMS Fürst Bismarck (Prince Bismarck) a germany first armored cruiser
25 September 1909 – Launch of SMS Helgoland, a german Helgoland-class battleship
25 September 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Libertédetonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

26 September 1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth
26 September 1748 – Birth of Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810)
26 September 1771 - Launch of HMS Grafton, a 74 gun Albion-class Ship of the Line
26 September 1794 – Launch of French Forte, a 42 gun Forte-class frigate
26 September 1800 – Diligence-class Brig-Sloop HMS Hound (1796 - 16), William James Turquand, wrecked near Shetland.
26 September 1805 - HMS Calcutta captured by french squadron
26 September 1810 - Launch of HMS Astraea, a 36 gun Apollo-class frigate
26 September 1812 – Launch of HMS Stag, a 36 gun Apollo-class frigate
26 September 1814 - The Battle of Fayal
26 September 1883 – SS Rotterdam (1872) , a dutch passenger ship ran aground and sunk
26 September 1908 - Launch of SMS Rheinland
26 September 1918 - Coast Guard cutter Tampa is steaming through the Bristol Channel when she is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-91.
26 September 1931 - The keel to USS Ranger (CV 4) is laid at Newport News, Va. She is the first ship designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier
26 September 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched
26 September 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172
26 September 2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers
26 September 2002 – An overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,800 people

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27 September 1588 – Spanish El Gran Grifón (38 guns), Flagship of Juan Gómez de Medina wrecked at Stroms Hellier, Fair Isle, Shetland Islands, Scotland
27 September 1598 - Birth of Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)
27 September 1747 – French La Renommée (1744 - 30), a Sirene-class frigate captured by british HMS Dover, becoming HMS Renown
27 September 1778 - HMS Experiment (1774 - 50) and HMS Unicorn (1776 - 26) captured Continental Navy frigateRaleigh (1776 - 32) off Boston
27 September 1803 – Birth of Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
27 September 1806 - HMS Dispatch (1804 - 18), Edward Hawkins, captured French frigate Presidente / Président(1804 - 40)
27 September 1813 - HMS Bold Sloop (1812 - 14), John Skekel, wrecked on Prince Edward's Island.
27 September 1840 - Sidon captured by HMS Thunderer (1831 - 84) and squadron – the last fleet action conducted purely by wooden ships of the line under sail.
27 September 1840 - HMS Imogene (1831 - 28) burnt while in ordinary in the covered South Dock at Plymouth
27 September 1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board
27 September 1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool - for rescue activities the United States Congress moved to award the newly instituted Lifesaving Medal to the lifeboat men
27 September 1938 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
27 September 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships
27 September 1941 – Liberty Fleet Day

28 September 1652 - English fleet of 68 ships,under Robert Blake, defeats Dutch fleet of 62 ships, under Vice-Admiral Witte de With, at the Battle of Kentish Knock, off the mouth of the Thames
28 September 1728 - Relaunch of HMS Royal Sovereign
28 September 1768 - Launch of HMS Prudent, a Exeter-class Ship of the Line
28 September 1799 - HMS Blanche (1786 - 32), Cptn. John Ayscough, wrecked after grounding several times in the Texel
28 September 1840 - Launch of HMS London , a 90-gun Rodney-class second rate Ship of the Line
28 September 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people


29 September 1625 - Battle of San Juan
29 September 1757 – Launch of HMS Juno, a 32 gun frigate , Richmond-class
29 September 1758 – Birth of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)
29 September 1792 – French 80-gun ship Deux Frères was renamed as HMS Juste
29 September 1808 - HMS Maria gun brig, Lieut. James Bennett (Killed in Action), captured by French corvetteDepartement des Landes (22) off Point Antigua,
28/29 September 1780 at 11pm - danish Printz Friderich (1761-70) run aground east of Laesoe and the disaster begun


30 September 1652 – English ship Antelope wrecked off Jutland
30 September 1681 - Action of 30 September 1681 near Cape St Vincent - a victory for the Spanish overBrandenburg
30 September 1757 – Launch of HMS Actaeon, a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate
30 September 1780 - HMS Pearl (32), Cptn George Montagu, took French frigate Esperance (28) off Bermuda
30 September 1785 – Launch of HMS Circe, a 28 gun Enterprise-class frigate
30 September 1787 - Robert Gray on Lady Washington and Captain John Kendrick ob the Columbia left Boston, to trade along the north Pacific coast.
30 September 1863 – Birth of Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (d. 1928
30 September 1909 – The Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
30 September 1909 – Launch of HMS Neptune was a dreadnought battleship
30 September 1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
30 September 1975 – Launch of Russian aircraft carrier Minsk

1 October 1693 – Launch of french Triomphant, a 94/98 guns ship of the line, designed and built by Laurent Coulomb, at Lorient
1 October 1746 - HMS Exeter (1697 - 60) and consorts captured and burnt Ardent.
1 October 1748 - Battle of Havana
1 October 1803 – Launch of French Vengeur ("Avenger") was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy,
1 October 1807 - The capture of the Jeune Richard
1 October 1808 - HMS Cruizer (1797 - 18), Lt. (act. Cdr.) Thomas Well, captured a Danish gun brig (10)
1 October 1942 – World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong

1 October 1955 - USS Forrestal (CVA 59), the first postwar super-carrier, is commissioned

2 October 1786 – Death of Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
2 October 1817 - Brig HMS Julia (1806 - 16), Jenkin Jones, wrecked off Tristan d'Acunha, coast of Africa
2 October 1830 – Launch of HMS Stag, a 44-gun Seringapatam-class fifth-rate frigate
2 October 1836 - The second voyage of HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board ends at Falmouth, Cornwall, England
2 October 1901 – HMS Holland 1 (or HM submarine Torpedo Boat No 1) launched
2 October 1906 - The at this time most modern battleship HMS Dreadnought was laid down
2 October 1935 – Launch of French battleship Dunkerque
2 October 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 337 crewmen aboard the Curacoa
2 October 1946 – Launch of PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world

3 October 1805 - HMS Barracouta wrecked
3 October 1808 - HMS Carnation (1807 - 18), Cptn. Charles Mars Gregory (Killed in Action), captured by La Palinure(16), off Martinique
3 October 1811 – Launch of french Alcmène at Cherbourg
3 October 1866 - The american passenger steamer Evening Star sank 180 miles east of Tybee Island in a heavy storm. Over 250 individuals perished,
3 October 1918 - SS Burutu was a British steamship, sunk after a collision with the steamship City of Calcutta off the coast of South Wales about 25 miles south-west of Bardsey Island in the Irish Sea
3 October 1936 - USS Enterprise (CV-6), launched

4 October 1710 - Action of 4 October 1710 / Battle of Køge Bay
4 October 1744 - Loss of the HMS Victory (1737 - 100), Cptn. Samuel Faulkner. Admiral Sir John Balchen and 1,100 men lost.
4 October 1744 - Admiral Sir John Balchen died and 1,100 men lost their life with sinking HMS Victory
4 October 1770 – Launch of French Victoire, a 74 gun Bien-Aimé class Ship of the Line
4 October 1780 - 13 Royal Navy ships foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies over 8 days - includingHMS Thunderer (1760 - 74), HMS Phoenix (1759 - 44), HMS Barbadoes (1778 - 14)
4 October 1782 – French Bizarre, a 64 gun Ship of the Line wrecked
4 October 1810 - Launch of italian - French Favorita - Favorite, a 44 gun Pallas-class frigate
4 October 1821 - Lt. Robert F. Stockton sails aboard USS Alligator from Boston to West Africa, to suppress the African slave trade and select and acquire territory to resettle former slaves in their native continent

5 October 1338 - The town Southampton was sacked by French, Genoese and Monegasque ships
5 October 1775 - Launch of HMS Stirling Castle, a 64-gun third rate Worcester-class ship of the line
5 October 1778 – Launch of French Annibal, a 74-gun Annibal-class ship of the line, launched
5 October 1778 - Launch of french Hercule, a Scipion class 74-gun French ship of the line built, at Rochefort
5 October 1780 - 13 Royal Navy ships foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies over 8 days - includingHMS Stirling Castle (1775 - 64), HMS Scarborough (1756 - 22) and HMS Victor (1779 - 10)
5 October 1781 - Launch of french Pégase, a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class
5 October 1804 - The Battle of Cape Santa Maria
5 October 1836 - Lord Melville wrecked
5 October 1850 - Launch of Ville de Paris, a 118 gun Ocean-class Ship of the Line

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6 October 1641 - Death of Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer - He started in 1639 an expedition together with Abel Tasman
6 October 1774 – Launch of HMS Vigilant, a 64-gun Intrepid-class third rate ship of the line
6 October 1779 - The Action of 6 October 1779
6 October 1786 - Launch of HMS Bellerophon , a 74 gun Arrogant-class
6 October 1986 - Soviet submarine K-219 sunk by explosion and fire caused by seawater leak in missile tube (some sources date it 3.rd October) - film: Hostile Waters

7 October 1403 – Battle of Modon / Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet
7 October 1571 - Battle of Lepanto - Part I
7 October 1571 - Battle of Lepanto - Part II
7 October 1785 – Launch of Commerce de Marseille, a 74 gun Téméraire class of the French Navy.
7 October 1795 - Battle of the Levant Convoy / Action of 7 October 1795
7 October 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun East Indiaman Kent.
7 October 1807 - Boats of (the brand new) HMS Porcupine (1807 - 22), Cptn. Hon. Henry Duncan, cut out Italian gunboat Safo, Ensign Antonio Ghega, from the harbour of Zupaino, Adriatic.
7 October 1807 – Launch of HMS Zenobia, a 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop by Brindley at King’s Lynn
7 October 1864 - The Bahia incident / USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in harbor of Bahia, Brazil.
7 October 1865 - The Duncan Dunbar was a clipper constructed for Duncan Dunbar & Company in 1857. It was shipwrecked at the Rocas Atoll off the coast of Brazil on 7 October 1865 on the way to Sydney, Australia.
7 October 1973 - The Battle of Latakia
7 October 1985 – Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

8 October 1746 - HMS Weazel (1745 - 16), Cdr. Hugh Palliser, off Beachy Head, in a short time captured four French privateers including Jeantie (6). Antoine Colloit, and Fortune (10), John Gilliere.
8 October 1778 – Launch of HMS Alexander, a 74-gun Alfred-class third-rate
8 October 1778 – Launch of HMS Charon, a 44-gun Two-decker Roebuck-class Fifth-Rate
8 October 1782 – Launch of HMS Standard, a 64-gun Intrepid-class third-rate ship of the line
8 October 1800 - HMS Diligence (16), Charles Hodgson Ross, wrecked on the Honda Bank near Havana
8 October 1804 - gunboat HMS Speedy (1798 - 4) sank
8 October 1805 – Launch of HMS Fame, a 74-gun Fame-class third rate ship of the line
8 October 1812 - During the War of 1812, a boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia at Fort Erie in a night attack
8 October 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
8 October 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos
8 October 1879 – Death of Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834) - killed in action during the Battle of Angamos
8 October 1885 – Launch of SS La Bourgogne, a French ocean liner
8 October 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

9 October 1776 - HMS Roebuck (1774) was in action on the Hudson, with HMS Phoenix and HMS Tartar, where she destroyed two armed gallies Independence and Crane,
9 October 1790 – Launch of HMS Leviathan, a 74-gun Courageux-class third-rate ship of the line
9 October 1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000
9 October 1800 - HMS Galgo (1796/1799 - 14) [renamed Chance], George Samuel Stovin, upset in a squall
9 October 1803 - HMS Atalante (1793/1797 - 16), J. O. Masefield, drove three French vessels ashore at the mouth of the Pennerf.
9 October 1814 - Sloop of war USS Wasp informs crew on the Swedish brig Adonis that she is headed to the Caribbean but is never seen again, with all hands lost
9 October 1824 – Launch of HMS Talbot, a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth-rate frigate
9 October 1861 – Launch of USS Kineo, a Unadilla-class gunboat
9 October 1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire (caused by a cigarette) in the mid-Atlantic and sank
9 October 1918 - While escorting the British transport ship HMS Aquitania, USS Shaw's (DD 68) rudder jams just as she is completing the right leg of a zigzag, leaving her headed directly toward the transport. Aquitania then strikes Shaw, cutting off 90 feet of the destroyer's bow, mangling her bridge and setting her on fire. Shaw's crew brings her under control, though 12 lives are lost.

10 October 1659 - Death of Abel Tasman
10 October 1683 - Harbour of Cadiz: A fire started in the forecastle of convoy ship Wapen von Hamburg I and rapidly spread throughout the vessel. The fire eventually reached the gunpowder depot and caused a terrible explosion that destroyed the ship
10 October 1758 - HMS Winchelsea (1740-20) taken by french Bizarre (1753-64) and Mignonne (1757-16)
10 October 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
10 October 1794 – Launch of French Décade Française, a 32-gun Galathée class frigate at Bordeaux
10 October 1843 – Launch of HMS Worcester, a 52-gun 1,500 ton fourth rate frigate, belonging to the six-ship Southampton class in Deptford, 23 years after she was laid down
10 October 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors
10 October 1892 - The SS Bokhara, a P&O steamship sank in a typhoon off the coast of Sand Island in thePescadores, Formosa. Of the 150 people who perished, eleven were members of the Hong Kong cricket team
10 October 1918 - RMS Leinster , a vessel operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, sunk by German submarine UB-123. Over 500 people perished in the sinking – the greatest single loss of life in the Irish Sea.

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