HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German submarine off Orkney, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, just six weeks into the Second World War. The Royal Navy battleship, under Captain ...

Families of those who lost their lives after a Royal Navy battleship was sunk during the Second World War will soon see an obelisk built in their memory. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

Families of those who lost their lives after a Royal Navy battleship was sunk during the Second World War will soon see an obelisk built in their memory. A memorial honouring the 835 men and boys ...

HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 14 October 1939. An obelisk will be built on The Hard in Portsmouth, the ship's home port. The city council, which has awarded ...

In the early days of World War II, HMS Royal Oak lay anchored peacefully in Scapa Flow, with most of its 1,200 crew, including a young 18-year-old sailor, asleep and adapting to naval life.

Dramatic new images have revealed the extent of damage to HMS Royal Oak after it was sunk by torpedoes. The ship was attacked by a German submarine in Orkney's Scapa Flow in 1939, killing 835 crew ...

Eighty years after the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak, dramatic new images have revealed the extent of the damage caused by torpedoes launched from a German U-boat. HMS Royal Oak was attacked on 14 ...

got the sword with leather strap and scabbard from a professional diver decades earlier who had recovered it from the wreckage site of HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands off the ...

HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German submarine off Orkney, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, just six weeks into the Second World War. The Royal Navy battleship, under Captain WH ...

HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German submarine off Orkney, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, just six weeks into the Second World War. The Royal Navy battleship, under Captain ...