1846
SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain completes two transatlantic round trips during her second season of passenger service.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Atlantic Ocean in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
SS Great Britain completes two transatlantic round trips during her second season of passenger service.
British cable operations sever German transatlantic communications shortly after war begins.
Reports the destruction of German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by HMS Highflyer.
Boards U-110 and recovers an Enigma machine, rotors, codebooks and current cryptographic material.
Participates in the U-110 capture operation that secures valuable German Enigma material.
Orders a boarding party onto disabled U-110, enabling capture of an intact Enigma machine and code material.
HMS Vanguard begins the first operational Trident deterrent patrol
Rifkind oversees the entry of the Trident force into operational service
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