On this day in 1940, HMS Wakeful is lost off Belgium after rescuing soldiers from the British Expeditionary Force as part of Operation Dynamo. 690 soldiers & sailors are lost. HMS GRAFTON picked up survivors but was also lost with another 14 men killed.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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