Tag: hero, Pendlebury, Royal Navy, WW1
100 years ago: The incredible story of Pendlebury hero torpedoed by German submarine
In a very rare newspaper story from 100 years ago we hear the testimony of a local sailor whose crew was attacked by a First World War German U-Boat submarine. By...
Ex-Salford student becomes Royal Navy bomb disposal diver
A former Salford University student is the latest addition to the Royal Navy’s specialist diver team after passing a gruelling Ministry of Defence training...
100 years ago: Canadian chancer jailed for ‘posing as Royal Navy Captain to pull women’
The pages of the Salford City Reporter of June 1916 told this amusing tale: a Canadian sailor charged with illegally wearing a Royal Navy uniform with the hope that...
100 years ago: Salford remembers WW1 naval catastrophe at The Battle of Jutland
Today marks the centenary of the largest and most decisive naval battle of the First World War: The Battle of Jutland. Commanded by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, the...
100 years ago in Eccles: Mobs riot and ransack town over Lusitania sinking
It is exactly 100 years ago today that the RMS Lusitania was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine with the loss of 1,198 men, women and children. This act...
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