
Tag: Royal Navy


The thread about the last voyage of the Battlecruiser “Moltke”; or how a German warship almost destroyed the Forth Bridge after 8 years on the seabed

The thread about Watson-Watt, Wilkins and Wacław Struszyński; whose work on top-secret electronics to detect aircraft and submarines appreciably shortened World War 2

The thread about the warships built in Leith by Henry Robb during World War 2 and what became of them all

The thread about the short life and times of the first Royal Navy warship built in Leith and why it took so long to build more

The thread about the 20th Century Naval Reserves in Leith and Granton and the tenuous link to 17th Century Jacobitism

The thread about John Paul Jones; the Scottish-born American naval hero who almost captured Edinburgh and Leith but lived to tell the tale
