Portsmouth based Revenge–class battleship HMS Royal Oak entering Portsmouth harbour. She was torpedoed on the 14th October 1939 by a German Submarine whilst at anchor at Scapa Flow in Orkney only just over a month after World War Two started. Sadly, of the 835 lives lost, many were boys from local training establishments such as HMS St Vincent. In the foreground a naval rowing boat crew of boy sailors with their instructor wait for the ship to enter harbour before making the crossing to the Gosport side. In the centre is the chain ferry which carried passengers, vehicles and horses between Gosport Hard and Old Portsmouth from 1841 through to 1958. I have produced two views of this scene, the second having a Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft flying overhead.