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.
The Royal Navy’s polar research ship HMS Protector found an enormous Antarctic ... and ice 45km long and the largest isle in the South Orkney chain. It was the first visit to the inhospitable ...