Orkney Library and Archive HMS Vanguard sunk almost immediately after the accidental explosions Built in 1909, Vanguard was the eighth ship to bear the name and was one of the new generation of ...

Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 August, 1917. It was seen as marking the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers.

Plans for the potential development of an enhanced memorial for those lost on HMS Royal Oak have been unveiled by Orkney ...

Where HMS Protector’s small hi-tech survey boat ... lump of rock and ice 45km long and the largest isle in the South Orkney chain. It was the first visit to the inhospitable, uninhabited island ...