Events are being held in Orkney to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hampshire. The armoured cruiser survived the Battle of Jutland and was on its way to Russia with Secretary of ...

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Princess Margaret launched HMS Hampshire, the Royal Navy’s second guided missile destroyer, on Clydebank last week. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Werkly’s edition of March 22nd 1961 ...

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The First Lord of the Admiralty [William Clive Bridgeman], in a written reply to Captain Waterhouse, has issued a correction of certain articles which have been published in the Press relating to the ...

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HMS Hampshire was carrying Lord Kitchener, one of the key figures in World War One, from Scapa Flow for talks with the Tsar of Russia in 1916. He was among 737 killed after it struck a mine and sank.

AFTER 100 years at the bottom of the sea, one of the most enduring mysteries of the First World War could finally be about to be solved. HMS Hampshire was sunk by a German mine during a storm off the ...