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From fighting pirates in the Indian Ocean to aiding a grounded cruise ship in the Dutch Antilles, RFA Wave Knight has spent a decade serving the global community. The ship arrived yesterday, en route to an assignment patrolling the Caribbean, to meet...

UK Naval support ship RFA Wave Knight is due to arrive in Bermuda today for a five-day visit. The Island will be her first port of call as she patrols the North Atlantic in support of humanitarian aid and disaster relief. While here Wave Knight’s Com...

Funeral services were held for a war veteran honoured by medals dating back to 1939. Owen Darrell was laid to rest as the only Bermudian known to have served on the dangerous Arctic Convoys in the Second World War. He died on December 27, just one we...

The roster of thousands from Bermuda who served in the First and Second World Wars will acquire at least 80 more names over the next week. “I've seen the pictures, but this is the first time I've been in front of it,” said master mason David West, wh...

For a decade or so in my wayward youth, the family of “Sewing Machine” Harris lived on Point Finger Road, formerly the more illustrious Springfield Avenue, perhaps one of the first modern subdivision developments in Bermuda. Our old home is now a med...

A little rain fell on the first morning of Cup Match 2012, damping not the spirits of the warring teams of cricketers of St George’s in the east and Somerset, or “God’s Country”, up here in the west, but rather adding to the heat of this August, 98 y...

I trust that the strategic position of Bermuda will be fully recognised early in this war. It is believed that Bermuda is of as great importance in the Atlantic as Pearl Harbor is in the Pacific. — Captain Jules James, USN, June 30, 1943 During the ...

Phillip Lamb, one of four black Bermudians who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, celebrates his 90th birthday today. According to war historian Andrew Bermingham, Mr Lamb is one of the oldest living war veterans in Bermuda. M...

SENDER THREAT…PASS TO NOB BERMUDA FOR ACTION … ARMY TUG RETURNING UNESCORTED TO BERMUDA WITH LEAKING FUEL TANKS. REQUEST PROVIDE ESCORT WITHIN 50 HOURS. — Message from USS Threat, February 5, 1944 TUG REPORTS SHE IS SINKING APPROX. LAT 31-29 LONG 60-...

February 25, 2012 Dear Sir, A recent documentary film entitled “West Indies Calling” has recently been uploaded to the internet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGwxJloI70. The film is of interest as it contains a shot of a Bermudian woman, apparen...

Samuel Houghton seldom spoke of his four years as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, and threw away most of the medals he later received. There are few former inmates from Germany's Milag Nord camp still alive. Mr Houghton, who died on February 19, w...