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HMS ROYAL OAK returning to Portsmouth c.1918. HMS VICTORY still afloat in the harbour off Gosport. The hydroplane was added for this commissioned watercolour, but even Sir Winston Churchill flew in one here once. . . . #marineartist #colinmbaxter #hampshireartist #watercolourart #hmsroyaloak #originalwatercolour #marineart #marinehistory #maritime #navalart #hmsvictory #portsmouth #hydroplane #art_daily #art_dailydose #artdiscover #artistsofinstagram #commissionart #sirwinstonchurchill #watercolor #watercolour #artistsoninstagram #artoninstagram #dailyart #britishart #britishartist

@admiralrodneyrum rums are heavier bodied rums than most column distilled rums and deserve extended periods of aging in oak casks to fully evolve into the Saint Lucia’s most prized liquid treasure. We have their HMS Royal Oak (blend of rums between 7-12 years) and HMS Princessa (blend of rums between 5-9 years) #rum #stluciarum #breaktheline #thebattleofthesaints #stlucia #hmsroyaloak #hmsprincessa

HMS Royal Oak Memorial #scapabeach #royaloak #memorial #scapaflow #hmsroyaloak #poppies #ww2

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Wrecked Wednesday! — HMS Royal Oak — The above image is a sonar scan made by ADUS during a 2006 environmental survey of the wreck site. Clearly visible is the torpedo damage to the ships bow, although the main damage was caused by three torpedoes fired into her starboard side 20 minutes later. --- HMS Royal Oak a Revenge-class battleship of WWI vintage. She served in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was modernized with torpedo blisters and later AA guns and oil powered propulsion. She was sunk 14 October, 1939 by soon-to-be U-boat celebrity Günther Prien in the Type VIIB U-47. U-47 would disappear under confusing circumstances in 1941 with Prien aboard. Prien's celebrity came from his rather daring venture into the British Home Fleet anchorage in Scapa Flow, the famed Orkney Islands harbor in Scotland. The defenses were antiquated and in disrepair, yet due to the presence of block-ships scuttled in the channel the official stance regarding the Flow was that it could not be feasibly breached. Slipping in with the tide, U-47 found Royal Oak anchored as an anti-aircraft battery and torpedoed her bow. After reloading and gauging he had not been discovered, Prien attacked with a further spread of three torpedoes. Royal Oak took on water quickly and turned over in minutes, sinking into ~30 m/100 ft of water. U-47's attack and escape as done in such stealth that a diver, commissioned by the Navy to investigate the wreck, determined the ship had been torpedoed. Of a crew of over 1,200 men and boys, 833 lost their lives as a result of the sinking. --- Royal Oak was essentially obsolete at the time of her destruction due to her lack of speed, but was nevertheless the first of five battle-line ships lost by Britain in WWII, the others being the Queen Elizabeth-class Barham, King George V-class Prince of Wales, Admiral-class battlecruiser Hood and Renown-class battlecruiser Repulse. Royal Oak was a publicity coup for Nazi Germany and was declared a war grave, which left the ship where she lay, off limits to all but specifically sanctioned divers. In the 1980's efforts succeeded to drain out much of the oil from the wreck. #wreckedwednesday⚓️ (see comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️)

Günther Prien, comandante del sommergibile U-47, silura e affonda la corazzata britannica HMS Royal Oak nella baia di Scapa Flow nelle isole Orcadi, il 14 ottobre 1939. Fu il primo grande colpo degli U-Boot durante la guerra ed ebbe un significato morale importantissimo dato che alla fine della prima guerra mondiale la flotta tedesca imperiale si era autoaffondata a Scapa Flow. Prien riuscì poi a rientrare in Germania dove venne accolto come un eroe e decorato con la croce di cavaliere della croce di ferro. . . Günther Prien, commander of the U-47, torpedoed and sink the British battleship HMS Royal Oak in the bay of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, on October 14, 1939. It was the first major U-boat strike during the war and had a moral significance considering that at the end of the First World War the German imperial fleet had sunk itselfes to Scapa Flow. Prien then managed to return to Germany where he was received as a hero and decorated with the knight's cross of the iron cross. . . #artwork #wallpaper #fanart #conceptart #kriegsmarine #uboot #u47 #guntherprien #scapaflow #strike #sink #ship #hmsroyaloak #battleship #1939 #germannavy #submarine #ace #ww2 #wwii #parabellum #followme #followmyfollowers

HMS Royal Oak, likely at the end of her 1922-24 refit in Portsmouth. The prominent anti-torpedo bulges introduced a void space to lessen the explosive impact of a torpedo warhead on the ship's vital spaces. Royal Oak was the last of her class to have this modification added. Despite this modification, Royal Oak would be sunk by torpedoes from U-47 in Scapa Flow early in WWII; in line with recent posts, this showed the near-impossibility of defeating a good torpedo strike.

HMS Royal Oak early in her career, likely during 1916 shortly after her commissioning in May of that year. She would fire her first shells in anger just 30 days after commissioning, at the Battle of Jutland.

HMS Royal Oak, the eventual victim of U-47, at anchor in 1937 about two years before her demise a month into the Second World War. Note the prominent anti-torpedo bulge at her waterline, added in a major refit from 1922-4. The Jutland and Spanish Civil War veteran would be sunk without firing a hostile shot in WWII. Royal Oak’s loss was widely celebrated in Germany, and resulted in Karl Dönitz’s promotion to Konteradmiral, the equivalent of a US Rear Admiral, and cemented his theories on the continued relevance of submarines leading into the conflict. - Apologies for the stall in momentum this week, it’s been arguably the busiest one of the year. I feel like I say that a lot lately!