For those with any interest in beautiful pictures of powerful wet navy as well as space navy ships: HMS Revenge, HMS Ramillies, HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Resolution Steaming in Line in the Atlantic (c.1930.) (Hat tip to "Empire Aesthetics" on X)

  No, this isn't an April Fool - but it started as one. Hat Tip for a great story from Screen Rant, which you can read in full at: One Of The Best Star Wars Stories Ever Written... Was An April Fools' Day Joke

The film U571 went down like the proverbial lead balloon with British audiences and critics because it took an act of great heroism which had actually been carried out by British Royal Navy sailors, and made a film with American sailors doing it. Aside from that there were various opinions about the accuracy of the film. It would appear from this one-sentence review that the Brits were not the only nationality unhappy with it ...    

As the star destroyer ISS Chimaera is currently in orbit above Dathomir, there has been no need to change the ship's clocks today. But on earth, where today is the closest Sunday to the local equinox, many cultures in the Northern hemisphere put their clocks forward an hour in the early hours of this morning. (Or back in the Southern hemisphere.) The Chimaera used to have a number of emergency use combined clocks and lights, not dependent on the ships main power supply, designed to provide light and a time-check if combat damage were to disrupt the ship's main lighting systems. When ships' time was synced to that of a planet, it was sometimes necessary at the local equinox.to send an ensign round the ship to re-set the these clocks to stay consistent with local time.  Last time this happened, some of these clocks failed to re-set and continued to show the wrong time. The Grand Admiral noticed and ordered the faulty clocks thrown out of the airlock, asking the young officer,...

Clocks in Britain and much of Europe go forward an hour tonight as Britain and many other countries change to Summer time.