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Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, St John's, the signal station in Newfoundland.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - September 1924

In this final instalment of the blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy follows the final movements of the British Special Service…

Quebec - August 1924
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - August 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

A plaza in Peru at night.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron – July 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Hand-drawn picture of a lake next to a forest with a mountain in the background.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - June 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

HMS Dauntless at sea rolling at an angle due to the waves.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - May 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Special Service Squadron arriving in Sydney April 9 1924
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation

British Special Service Squadron - April 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Postcard kept by Captain Charles Round-Turner. Courtesy of the National Museum of the Royal Navy
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

The British Special Service Squadron - March 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Eight men unloading 99 bags of mail at Colombo.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

The British Special Service Squadron - Journey to Singapore 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

A small craft welcomes HMS Dauntless to Delhi.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - January 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Mill Street in Freetown Sierra Leone.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron 1923 - the first ports of call

December 8th, At Sea.  At 7am we sighted the West Coast of Africa, but owing to a low lying mist could not plainly discern the entrance to the…

Map showing the route that the British Special Squadron will take.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - 27th November

‘27th November 1923. Got underway at 0945, started World Cruise, not touching at Plymouth.’