The Merchant Navy is often referred to as the ‘Fourth Service’, but it has also become the forgotten service, with the…

In February 1941, during the Battle of the Atlantic, a Merchant Navy vessel, the SS Gairsoppa, was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-101 off the Irish coast.

A £100 silver Piedfort coin issued to celebrate Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday bears the monarch’s coat of arms with the…