In Charleston HMS Seraph has a rather unique memorial.
Parts from her conning tower and a torpedo loading hatch were preserved as a memorial at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina due to her unique war record .This monument is the only shore installation in the United States where the Royal Navy ensign is authorised to be permanently flown by the British Admiralty.

The Dunkirk Fleet

In May 1940 a fleet began to muster ,
They flew the white ensign and sailed under the red duster
They came from fishing ports and the excursion trade
They hailed from yacht marinas to the soldiers aid The oldest had first set to sea in the last century
And the youngest had barely been to sea
They carried every cargo, from passengers to freight
They put out fires and plucked men from the sea
They rounded up bigger ships and put fish on your plate

In late March 1941, as British ships of the Mediterranean Fleet covered troop movements to Greece, Mavis Batey, a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park, made a breakthrough, reading the Italian naval Enigma for the first time. Mavis Batey was a British student of 19, midway through her university course in German Romanticism, when she was recruited for a top-secret assignment during World War II.
In May 1940, Mrs. Batey — then the unmarried Mavis Lever — joined the team of code breakers at Bletchley Park, the

Florence Violet McKenzie OBE (née Granville; 28 September 1890[1] – 23 May 1982), affectionately known as "Mrs Mac", was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. She campaigned successfully to have some of her female trainees accepted into the all-male Navy, thereby originating the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Some 12,000 servicemen passed through her signal instruction school in Sydney,

So you're sitting at a platform on your local station and the tannoy goes . "The next train will not be stopping at this station." And a goods train trundles by and you look up and some of the containers are marked Maersk The A. P. Moller-Maersk Group (Danish: A.P. Møller-Mærsk Gruppen) is an international business conglomerate more commonly known simply as Maersk and its been around since 1904

The Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS) was the naval section of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) (WAC(I)). It was established during the Second World War as a branch of the Royal Indian Navy. The induction of women in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) began with the wives of RIN officers in service in the port city of Bombay, before extending to other Indian ports. They were first employed in 1939, at the onset of the WW2, to assist in decoding messages

The Lohmann Affair

In early 1923 Captain Walter Lohmann, who had acquired international business experience, gained command of the Navy's Maritime Transport Department in October 1920, whose primary responsibility was logistical matters. With full confidence and trust of naval Chief Admiral Paul Behncke, Lohmann was transferred to managing naval black funds generally used for covert funding.
Initially, proceeds of about 100 million gold marks were garnered from the illegal sale of ships and submarines