 The HMS "Royal Oak" Association holds an Act of Remembrance annually at the church on the Saturday nearest to 13 October, the date of the sinking of the battleship at Scapa Flow in 1939.At the service on 9 October 2019, eighty years after the ship was torpedoed, a memorial stone was unveiled in the church by Anne, Princess Royal.Although the last survivor died in 2016, some one hundred and fifty relatives and descendants of the crew attended.