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31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog

31st January 2025
Tagged as: Battle of May Island, Battleship, British Navy, First World War, Firth of Forth, Fog, Navy, Royal Navy, Scotland, Submarine, Weather

The Battle of May Island was not an actual battle but rather a peacetime disaster caused by miscommunication and navigational errors near the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth in Scotland during World War I.

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14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg

14th February 2024
Tagged as: Battleship, Bismarck, Germany, Hitler, HMS Hood, Navy, Nazi Germany, Third Reich

Bismarck was the first of two of the largest battleships ever built by Germany. Ordered for Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine, the ship was a testament to Nazi Germany’s ambitions to build a powerful and modern navy.

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31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog

14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer

3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance

1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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