Charybdis Weekend is held in Guernsey each year to commemorate not only the sailors and marines who lost their lives, but also the bravery of the islanders. On 23 October 1943 HMS Charybdis was sunk ...

About 500 lives were lost when the Royal Navy warships were torpedoed by German T-boats in the English Channel. Twenty-one bodies washed ashore in Guernsey and were buried with full military honours.

One of the last surviving crew members of a World War Two shipwreck has thanked Channel Islanders for helping keep the memory of his fallen comrades alive. More than 500 people died when two Royal ...

Events have taken place in Guernsey to mark the sinking of HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne during World War II. More than 20 bodies from HMS Charybdis washed up in Guernsey after it was torpedoed by ...

Second World War veteran Roger Roberts had not been in the water for 80 years (Picture: SWNS) A Royal Navy veteran has gone swimming for the first time since he survived his ship being sunk by German ...

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A 110-year-old World War Two veteran has given a new set of Royal Marines some advice ahead of their career. John Eskdale from Lydney in Gloucestershire, visited the Commando Training Centre in ...

Islanders in Guernsey are holding commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the bombings of HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne. The two ships were torpedoed by German U-boats in the Second World War ...

A 97-year-old Royal Navy veteran has gone swimming for the first time since surviving his ship being sunk by German torpedoes during the Second World War. Care home bosses arranged for Roger Roberts ...

A 97-year-old World War II veteran has got back into the water for a swim for the first time since his ship was torpedoed 80 years ago. Roger Roberts was left with a fear of swimming after the ...