Royal Daffodil was given the title Royal by King George in recognition of its service in WWI Retired Royal Marines have commemorated the anniversary of the 1918 Zeebrugge Raid at a service on ...

There will again be no live ceremony for the Zeebrugge Raid commemoration because of Covid-19. But this time it will be filmed and viewable on the day. The ceremony around the Zeebrugge Memorial at St ...

However, everything didn’t quite go to plan for the raid on Zeebrugge, Belgium, as Lesley Bellew found out. The end of the First World War was just months away, but German U-boats were still a menace.

The Zeebrugge Raid, 1918 Zeebrugge was an outlet for German U-boats and destroyers based up the canal at Bruges, and the British planned to sink three old cruisers Iphegenia, Intrepid and Thetis, in ...

PUPILS have been learning of the heroic feats behind a grand painting which was hung in their dinner hall this week. The portrait of war hero Lt Cdr Percy Thompson Dean, who attended Queen Elizabeth’s ...

A MEMORIAL service was held in Merseyside to commemorate one of the most heroic actions of World War I, the Zebrugge raid. Retired Royal Marines from across the country gathered in Wirral yesterday to ...

Mersey Ferries played a key role in the World War One action - the original Daffodil and Iris ferries acted as landing crafts and tug boats. Both ferries came under heavy fire but they returned to ...

Now that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the ...