A poppy wreath hangs from the memorial tablet of those lost on November first 1914 from HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. The Falkland Islands also remembers those involved in the naval battle of ...

“HMS Good Hope was hit all over and after the first ten minutes had many guns out of action – she was on fire forward and all along the port side …At 19:50 she blew up with a tremendous ...

HMS Good Hope was the first British ship to sink, taking Cradock with it. Just over an hour later, the Germans sank HMS Monmouth with the loss of all hands.

In June 1942, HMS Barrymore sailed out of the South African city of Cape Town towing a damaged corvette, HMS Bellwort. Our destination: Durban, on South Africa's east coast. I was a signalman on ...

The Royal Navy squadron consisted of two ageing cruisers HMS Good Hope (Cradock's flagship) and HMS Monmouth, four light ...

Thompson said HMS Good hope was characteristic of early 20th century steamer battleships. "This was a massive battleship," he said. 'You steer towards it' ...

The six-inch guns on the armoured cruisers HMS Good Hope and Monmouth were in casements so low on the hull that when the gun ports were opened the brine flooded in.

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands R/I (PG) The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands R/I (PG) WALTER Summers' 1927 silent classic, newly restored by the BFI, is a dramatic ...