HMS Southampton Overview The wreck of the Southampton dates from a conflict long since forgotten by many, the War of 1812, when America and the British Empire were at war over Atlantic trade routes.

At the end of 1939 I had said farewell to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and in January 1940 set forth to join my first ship, HMS Southampton, a cruiser of 10,000 tons undergoing a short refit ...

A tiny pilotless aircraft (“UAV”), developed and built by the UK’s University of Southampton, has been launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with ...