The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders AIT33 HMS Valiant and HMS Queen

HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth at Alexandria by Ivan Berryman

had been training hard for weeks and the rumour on the grapevine suggested it might be the Tirpitz they were after

30am on the 23rd June 1945

enabling the main force of Lancaster and Halifax aircraft to drop their bombs as accurately as possible

The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders AIT33 HMS Valiant and HMS QueenDHM1347. The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders. A splendid little war was how John Hay, ambassador to Britain, described the Spanish American war of 1898. Though the war was small in scope it was large in consequences; it promoted the regeneration of the American Navy and the emergence of the United States as a major world power. Fought primarily at sea, the war created an American naval legend in its opening encounter between the pacific