On the morning of 10 April 1940, 110 people on board HMS Hunter died when the Royal Navy ship was sunk by German forces during World War II's first Battle of Narvik, in Norway. John Hague, now 87, but ...

During 1944-5, HMS Hunter sailed from Gibraltar to Alexandria seven times, relieving Malta and other islands and chasing the German Army out of Greece. The Greek railways were blown up to stop the ...

In the summer of 1945, HMS Hunter sailed to Colombo, Ceylon, but harboured at Trincomalee, the Naval Base on the East Coast of Ceylon. My Army base was in Colombo on the West side where the ...

British battleship sunk by the Nazis is found in Norwegian waters. March 10, 2008 — -- The wreck of a British warship sunk by the Germans during World War Two, killing more than 100men, has ...

The men he speaks of are the ship’s company of HMS Hunter, one of two ships blown up and sunk during ferocious fighting in the fjords almost 78 years ago. Advertisement. Hide Ad.