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The Examination for Lieutenant

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Lt. Peter Medhurst RNZNVR was a New Zealander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve serving with the Royal Navy in 775 Sqn Fleet Air Arm as a pilot in WWII.

Tragically in Sept. 1942, while returning to Britain from a Middle East shore posting, he was a passenger aboard the requisitioned troopship RMS Laconia when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat 156 and Peter was killed.

This is a superb photo of Lt. Mehurst in the classic Irvin sheepskin flying jacket.

Rest-in-Peace. (FTP)

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Tonight's random quartet of images. Back to 2015 and my first visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton.

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Me, when I see model ships in online shops that I could never afford:

And yet I still watch them again and again 😭

#I WANT THE HSM VICTORY!#hornblower #hornblower series #royal navy #c.s. forester #sir edward pellew #captain pellew #edward pellew #robert lindsay

William Bush in Mutiny

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Sebastopol: First day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England. [17 October 1854]

Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855. Sebastopol, First Day's Attack by the Allied Fleet and Armies of France and England. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 14 April 1855. Ships L-R: Sanspareil; Tribune; Queen; Vesuvius; Agamemnon, (Admiral Lyons); Circassia (Tug); Vengeance; Highflyer; Bellerophon; Cyclops; Rodney; Spitfire (sic) HMS Spiteful (1842); Trafalgar; Retribution; Vladimir; Britannia, Admiral Dundas; Furious; Henri 4; Canada; Napoleon, (Rear Admiral); Mahmoudie, (Turkish Admiral); Valmy; Descartes; Ville de Paris; Primauget; Jupiter; C Colombo; Bayard; Orenoque; Friedland; Vauban; Tishrefech; Tarif; Montebello, (Rear Admiral); Marengo; Labrador; Alger; Magellan. There is a transcription error: HMS Spitfire (sic) is actually HMS Spiteful (1842).

#sebastopol: first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of france and england.#the illustrated london news #wood engraving #british navy #royal navy #mediterranean fleet #crimean war #siege of sevastopol #1850s #1854 #1855 #hms bellerophon #<- history / fiction ->#the artful dodger #jack dawkins #research for jack's service in the royal navy #this is the action that saw jack decorated for gallantry as belle shared at dinner (1x04) a little over a year later #a little more history ->#the siege of sevastopol lasted from 17 October 1854 to 11 September 1855 #the 20 march 1855 navy list still shows the bellerophon in the mediterranean but by the 20 june 1855 navy list she's in portsmouth #it's possible the navy lists reported assignments/movements differently during wartime #perhaps she was already on her way back to england in march and just hadn't arrived yet #she had taken significant damage during this bombardment—though not enough to warrant sending her for repairs as two other ships were #and all other ships were able to repair while remaining with the fleet maintaining the siege #all this to say it's hard to know exactly when the bellerophon returned to england #and more fiction ->#depending on when bellerophon returned to england and that jack would have been 4 months again at sea before arriving in australia #and that he must have left officially to have received such a glowing recommendation from the first lord of the admiralty #it can't have been much before late july/early august 1855 that he arrived in port victory #and the show begins on 26 october 1855 (the bank note jack signs in the first scene shows this date)

The allied fleets anchored in the Bosphorus, 1853 by Amedeo Preziosi (1816–1882).

Signed and dated 1854, this panorama of British warships lying at anchor in the Bosphorus can be dated more correctly to the final months of 1853, just prior to the period before the fleet entered the Black Sea on 3rd January (1854) and the subsequent formal declaration of War three months later. The animosity between Turkey and Russia had been worsening throughout 1853 to the extent that Britain and France, having agreed to support Turkey in the event of hostilities, had each sent fleets to the Eastern Mediterranean that summer. As the international situation deteriorated, the British fleet entered the Bosphorus on 30 October and remained there for two months awaiting developments. The fleet initially consisted of ten ships-of-the-line "Agamemnon", "Albion", "Bellerophon", "London", "Queen", "Rodney", "Sans Pareil", "Trafalgar", and, "Vengeance" accompanied by various small vessels, mostly frigates, and led by the huge 120-gun flagship "Britannia".

#the allied fleets anchored in the Bosphorus‚ 1853 #amedeo preziosi #watercolor #british navy #royal navy #mediterranean fleet #crimean war #1850s #1853 #hms bellerophon #<- history / fiction ->#the artful dodger #jack dawkins #research for jack's service in the royal navy

**On August 9, 1945, Canadian naval pilot Lt. Robert Hampton Gray led an attack by Corsairs on ships in Onagawa Bay. His aircraft was hit by flak, but he continued the attack and struck the ship Amakusa, which sank. Gray was killed. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. #RobertHamptonGray #Corsair #WW2.**

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