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WW2 submarine tragedy remembered. Britain’s most iconic ancient site was the fitting setting for an 80th-anniversary service to a lost WW2 submarine. HMS Stonehenge vanished on only her second patrol sometime in mid-March 1944 in the Bay of Bengal. “All 50 souls aboard were lost – neither their fate, nor their boat’s have ever been determined. Most likely, the submarine struck a mine or suffered mechanical failure in waters between the Nicobar Islands and Sumatra. HMS Stonehenge was officially listed as lost on March 22 1944 – less than three weeks after an official war photographer had captured crew on camera preparing for their fateful last mission. Eight decades later, national veterans’ charity Alabaré organised a memorial service in conjunction with English Heritage at the prehistoric monument in Wiltshire which gave the ill-starred sub her name.”

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East Coast-based U.S. Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) conduct maritime training with Norwegian Naval Special Operations Commandos as part of Nordic Response 24. Nordic Response 24.

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On this day in 1940 Flag Officer Submarines, Admiral Sir Max Horton, turned down Churchill’s proposal that submarines have relief crews because no crew would wish to be separated from their boat. By the 60s dual crews were introduced to the Polaris boats.

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