Dan McHugh had never met the man in the casket at the front of the room. Although the two had defended the country in the same war, the 87-year-old McHugh, a Naval veteran of World War II, didn’t have ...
A Royal Navy silver bosun's whistle dating back to the 16th century was discovered by a metal detectorist in a field, miles from the sea. The whistle is typical of those used on Navy ships for ...
A metal detectorist discovered a piece of naval history in a Lancashire field. Michael Carey unearthed the fragment of a post-Medieval silver bosun's whistle on land near Barton. The find was the ...