SS AGBERI: The silent herald The sinking of the SS AGBERI is an event that, at first glance, has not received much attention among scholars, the media, or the wider public. However, when placed in the wider context of the 1st World War, it is plain that the details surrounding her destruction show some of the most impo...
Today the Heritage Lottery Fund announced a grant of £409,700 for the Royal Commission’s partnership project: Commemorating the Forgotten U-boat War around the Welsh Coast, 1914-18. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, over the next two years the project will use the latest imaging techniques to re...
On Christmas Day 1917, U-87 attacked a convoy in St George’s Channel (in particular, the 4812-ton British steamship AGBERI). One of the convoy escorts, P56, was just 150 yards away from the AGBERI when it was struck and turned to ram the submarine while another escort, the BUTTERCUP, fired and hit its conning tow...
The wreck of the First World War hospital ship HMHS Anglia has recently been given a designation under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. This will now provide legal protection to the wreck. Twelve other wartime vessels have been added to the lists of protected military vessels this year to bring the ...
Recently, the Royal Commission’s Maritime Officer, Deanna Groom, had the privilege of reviewing a sample of the early record cards of the Central Index Register of the Merchant Seaman now conserved by Southampton Archives. The small, printed CR10 cards contain information about our seafaring ancestors and the ships...
