2016年1月17日 · Spotted whilst watching afternoon telly this week. During a recent episode of Father Brown, on BBC 1, I spied the following inscription on a garden bench two of the characters were sitting on. 'HMS Lion 1914-18' Could this have been constructed from timber taken from the ship during the process o...

2022年2月6日 · On the back of the painting, which I saved from his house clearance, is a record of John McPherson R.N. stating this man had served on HMS Lion between 1918 and 1920. John McPherson may well have been a member of the cousin’s wife’s family, the painting possibly handed down through generations although I am guessing at this.

2016年1月17日 · Lion was stripped of the armaments (demilitarised) in Rosyth, there's film of workmen pulling the fronts of the turret armour off and cutting the 13.5s into 12in lenths. That was a very important stipulation in the contract as the ship was counted towards the Washington Treaty tonnage.

2016年6月8日 · Grant was a Chief Gunner, a warrant officer and near as high as a man can go without being made an officer and a gentleman, the title of his book is 'Through the hawse pipe' which was a phrase used for when a man was promoted from the lower deck to the quarterdeck, the seamans messdecks used to be sited foreward under the hawsepipes, the quarterdeck …

2010年2月19日 · I thought that members may like to see this artists impression of the "Lion" being towed home by HMS Indomitable after the the battle of Dogger Bank in 1915. The picture is from volume 5 of the publication "Deeds that Thrill the Empire" and the description in the book is: "On Sunday, the 24th of ...

2018年3月10日 · Hello! I'm trying to put together my family tree, for my grandmother but I'm a little lost/stuck. My 2nd great aunt, Ely Jane Protheroe, was married to Richard Scott (although I cannot find when or where).

2004年7月6日 · There is a good possibility that a few of HMS Lion's Bandsmen could have been working alongside yr man in that turret. Bandsmen were sometimes employed in shell & propellant handing in action. I have the medals of the Bandmaster of HMS Black Prince, which was sunk at Jutland.

2019年7月24日 · I haven't found it anywhere. (Though I haven't looked at either of those yet.) According to Chatfield's report the shell exploded in Q Turret at 16.00. He is a bit vaguer about when the propellant explosion took place, If I understand him aright he said that it took place at about the same time as the enemy battle cruiser

2015年6月1日 · Wikipedia has, "Lion rejoined the Battlecruiser Fleet, again as Beatty's flagship, on 19 July 1916 without 'Q' turret, but then had the turret replaced during a visit to Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick that lasted from 6 to 23 September"

2015年8月12日 · HMS Lion - 1918. HMS Lion; Bath; By greenman126 12 August , 2015 in Sailors, navies and the war at sea. Share