ALTHOUGH she was built in peacetime, the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle had a busy life on the ocean. Laid down at Harland and Wolff in 1942 while World War Two was still raging, it was March 1946 before ...

The awesome starboard view of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, right, was sent in by Mike Nolan but he has little information about the occasion. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, ...

Bertie Reginald Dagnell joined the navy at the age of 15, and by the time he had lost his life in 1942, he had served 17 years. Bertie was a Leading Seaman on board HMS Eagle, which was sunk in the ...

A COVENTRY man who survived the sinking of the illfated HMS Eagle has died at the age of 84. John George Clempson, known to everyone as Jack, died on Tuesday at Keresley Wood residential home after a ...

TRADITION, nostalgia and belonging - they are the key words used in the centenary celebrations of the Royal Naval Reserve on Merseyside. The RNR is embarking on a series of events to mark the occasion ...

Lend lease to the United States Navy 1943. His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the workings of an aircraft carrier with the aircraft etc ...

I was standing in the shade of No.1 starboard 6" gun, fifty feet above the waterline. The Eagle shuddered with four distinct lurches. For some reason I thought we had hit a school of whales! The deck ...