The Heart of Oak Memory Tree was installed at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to recognise "individual service and sacrifice", ...
A SEVEN-METRE torpedo found on the seabed in Scapa Flow is believed to have been fired at HMS Royal Oak by a German submarine at the beginning of the Second World War. The device was spotted during a ...
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The Royal Oak Tragedy

In the early hours aboard HMS Royal Oak, anchored in the supposedly secure waters of Scapa Flow, most of the 1,200-man crew slept soundly. Among them was a young sailor, just 18, still adjusting to ...