1 dez 1920

Reino Unido
  • Bruce Fraser greeted officers returning from Soviet captivity at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bruce Fraser | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
24 mar 1921

Reino Unido
  • Carrier Eagle underwent a reconstruction at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Eagle | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
28 mai 1925

Reino Unido
17 jun 1925

Reino Unido
23 set 1930

Reino Unido
29 set 1930

Reino Unido
  • HMS Hermes departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for Sheerness in Kent, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Hermes | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
12 nov 1930

Reino Unido
24 set 1931

Reino Unido
  • The keel of HMS Neptune was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Neptune | Portsmouth, England | AC]
31 jan 1933

Reino Unido
26 jun 1933

Reino Unido
  • The keel of HMS Amphion was laid down at the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Perth | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
18 nov 1934

Reino Unido
12 jul 1935

Reino Unido
  • Aging Australian cruiser HMAS Brisbane arrived in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom with a crew for operating the future cruiser HMAS Sydney (currently HMS Phaeton). ww2dbase [Sydney | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
29 jun 1938

Reino Unido
  • British cruiser HMS Amphion was recommissioned as Australian cruiser HMAS Perth at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Perth | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
21 set 1938

Reino Unido
  • On the last leg of her extended shakedown cruise, cruiser USS Nashville departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom bound for New York. The ship was also laden with 25 tons of British gold bullion bound for the United States. ww2dbase [Nashville | Portsmouth, England | DS]
22 set 1938

Reino Unido
  • USS Honolulu departed Portsmouth, England bound for the United States with $20,000,000 in gold bullion being transferred from the Bank of England to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Portsmouth, England | DS]
22 jun 1940

Reino Unido
  • The British motor yacht Campeador V (FY002) was requisitioned for war service on harbour patrol duties at hire rate £60.0.0d per month. She was sunk after activating a magnetic mine just south of Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 20 people lost their lives; two crew members were picked up. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | Portsmouth, England | HM]
30 jul 1940

Reino Unido
  • The 5,183-ton merchant steamer Umvoti, built in 1903, was taken of of service and scuttled at the entrance to Portsmouth harbour in southern Britain. The ship was subsequently cut in half and the two halves were moved to East Sands where in 1944 the wreck was broken up. ww2dbase [Portsmouth, England | HM]
6 set 1940

Reino Unido
  • Successful tests of the "Plastic Armour" devised by lawyer Edward Terrell were conducted at the Royal Navy gunnery school, HMS Excellent. The trials of this material which consisted of a mastic asphalt and hard granite mix on a steel plate would result in a directive being issued that the bridge and gun positions on merchant ships (and subsequently, in December, for naval ships) should be protected with the new material to deflect bullets. Terrell would later receive an award of £9,500 from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors for this protective material. ww2dbase [Portsmouth, England | AC]
18 jan 1941

Reino Unido
  • British destroyer HMS Castleton was damaged by German bombing while under repair at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Portsmouth, England | CPC]
27 mai 1942

Reino Unido
  • A German Ju 87 Stuka aircraft sank British anti-submarine trawler HMT Arctic Pioneer off Portsmouth Harbour, England, United Kingdom; 18 were killed, 16 survived. ww2dbase [Portsmouth, England | CPC]
20 ago 1942

Reino Unido
25 set 1942

Reino Unido
7 jun 1944

Reino Unido
  • HMS Rodney collided with LCT 427 off Portsmouth, England, slicing the LCT in half and killing all 13 British Royal Navy personnel aboard the LCT. ww2dbase [Rodney | Portsmouth, England | CPC, DS]
14 jul 1944

Reino Unido
  • Heinkel aircraft of III/KG3 flew 23 sorties to launch V-1 bombs against Southampton, England, United Kingdom during the night. Most missed the City or were shot down but night fighters. However, one came down on Newcomen Road in Portsmouth killing 15 and another killed all members of a family that had fled London and were staying with friends in the small village of Goodworth Clatford. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Portsmouth, England | HM]
26 jan 1946

Reino Unido
  • HMS P556 was transferred to the US Navy, and the submarine was struck from the US Naval Register. She would remain in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [S-29/P556 | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
24 jan 1947

Reino Unido
  • S-29 was sold to the firm H. G. Pound of Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for scrapping. ww2dbase [S-29/P556 | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
1 mar 1962

Reino Unido
15 mai 1969

Reino Unido
  • USS Wasp arrived at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom and participated in a NATO naval review presided by Queen Elizabeth and her consort Prince Philip. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Portsmouth, England | CPC]



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