Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Swedish-Swiss Commission: Managed by Swedish and Swiss personnel under leaders like Paul Mohn and Emil Sandström, neutral Swedish-flagged ships (painted white with large Red Cross emblems) carried Canadian wheat and South American supplies directly into ports like Piraeus. 142
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Organizations like the Greek War Relief Association in North America and influential diaspora leaders pressured Washington and London to ease their strict food blockades 130
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Great Famine was a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1944), during World War II. The local population suffered greatly during this period, while the Axis powers initiated a policy of large-scale plunder. Requisitions, together with a blockade by the Allies. 140
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The group campaigned for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War. 020
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oxfam started in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in Britain to help starving citizens in occupied Greece during World War II 3155
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Its the Time Travellers and the nazi super weapon isn't it !! 100
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@dreadships.bsky.social The French Submarine Mariotte apparently built on the principal that you can never have too much conning tower . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_... The caption in the first photo says Mariotte sinks gloriously. Which is a odd word to choose . 0145
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Big Brother for Cats - googled Endemol contact details 010
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is the Pre Dreadnought Battleship HMS Dreadnought almost the Pre Dreadnought HMS Fury but her name was changed. 182
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Do newspapers deliberately make mistakes now to power engagement and clicks This is the link photo and next to it is the first paragraph of the article. I know they leave out locations to get you to click . But this seems deeply cynical . 010
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The ASW trawlers were operated by a WRNS officer, 1st Officer Audrey Parker. I think she was the only Wren officer to be given an operational job. She sat at the next table to mine in the office, and we worked together in perfect harmony. She really knew about ships. From Escort by D Rayner 1144
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026So a group of Zebras are called a Dazzle so which came first . Is the camouflage named after the Zebras or the group of Zebras named after the camouflage. @dreadships.bsky.social 140
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So that's where the design ins piration for the BT tower came from 130
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Voltaire while not known as a Poet did write poetry and also had his own 20th century Battleship 2102
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Bear with me .....has anyone checked Sylvester Stallone's Diary . "My name is Harry Kane" 011
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This week I learned we had an HMS Urtica which is basically posh for HMS Stinging Nettle - mayhap we were running low on the good names 1121
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I'd like to recommend the Felixstowe Fury mostly because the name sounds like a very localised Vigilante/ Wrestler 050
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Empire Stevedore was an approximately 750 GRT cargo ship which was built as Kriegtransporter KT 3. Taken over at Hamburg in October 1949 by the Royal Engineers. To Marchwood, Hampshire in 1950 for use as a stevedore training ship, replacing Empire Flamian. 111
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026On a related note . The British Ship Research Association woke up one day and decided to strap some jet engines to the hull of a Victorian Paddle Steamer 180
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Invisible cars for Spies - let's think this through . You have not factored in other road users To Q from Finance We have been unable to get ongoing insurance cover for your Aston Martin "Vanish " In road trials other road users hit 14 times while in motion and 47 times while parked 140
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 08/06/2026WAAF flight mechanics and Royal Air Force (RAF) mechanics work together on a Bristol Beaufighter Mark VI plane at the Operational Training Unit, Cranfield, Bedfordshire. © IWM. CH13693. 020
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Thanks to @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social we have this pic and blog entry to remind us of importance of Logistics in Operation Neptune 274
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026She also was before her loss rocking 2 very different camouflages on different sides . 191
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026HMAS Perth The funnel flaps were fitted while in the West Indies . The idea was that they would break up the outline of the two funnels and so confuse enemy rangefinders. . The flaps were worn until the time of her loss @dreadships.bsky.social 4497
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Darling I've found this Amazing Air BnB for out next holiday. The views are amazing you can See for miles.... 030
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 23/05/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YF... The reverse can also be true 010
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I actually live quite close to former site of one of first primary schools to teach cooking in the UK. See attached some of dishes they tackled 020
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026womenwhomeantbusiness.com/2021/12/28/e... The amazing story of a lady who built Batchelors Foods and cared for her workers and even tackled the thankless task of improving British Rail Catering @garius.bsky.social 03119
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I think they were used across multiple ships. I've heard reference to Anton and Bruno for Graf Spee for example. I did also find this reference but haven't been able to find a second source for it. So in WW1 it looks like the system could have been more fluid 141
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Viper was converted into a crane ship between 1909 and 1910 In 1940, during World War II, the ship was allocated to, Operation Sea Lion. For the planned amphibious assault, Viper was fitted with an experimental ramp to send amphibious Tauchpanzer III tanks ashore; 1111
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine... The Germans in WW2 didn't really carry on any historical naming schemes from German Naval History With one notable exception which are Bremse and Brummer which in English are Horsefly and Bluebottle. Which are names straight out of the RN naming playbook . 5416
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 03/05/2026USN cookbook of Ice-cream flavour from WW2 Pineapple Grape anyone ? #navalhistory 041
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Robin Don't forget the robins Robin Don't forget the USS Robin 141
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Fascinating series of photos of sinking of HMS Gurkha. Pics taken from Dutch Destroyer Isaac Sweers 392
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is HMS Star , she was built in 1898 and is a destroyer. So technically the Royal Navy had an Imperial Star Destroyer @dreadships.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social 13710
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Also Doc was rich , how did he make his money ? Deloreans are not cheap 120
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 11/04/2026From 1967 to 1975, 15 ships and their crews were trapped in the Suez Canal after the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_... @dreadships.bsky.social 2104
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026From the first Famous Five book On their way to Kirrin Island, George shows her cousins a shipwreck, explaining it was her great-great-great-grandfather's ship. He had been transporting gold when the ship was wrecked in a storm, 220
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The Lucy Ashton bought by the British Shipbuilding Research Association who wanted to test different hull shapes to see what effect they had on the resistance to travel through the water, and on speed fitted with four Rolls-Royce Derwent jet engines the former steamer underwent speed tests 082
Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026SMS Derflinger raised from the bed of Scapa Flow . She spent the entirety of WW2 floating upside down and in fact spent longer afloat inverted than she did verted . 0164