Pearl and Moonstone are traditional modern birthstones for which month of the year?
HMS Moonstone (T90) as part of the 4th AS (anti-submarine) Patrol Group, and later to the Red Sea. In June 1940 Italy joined the war against the Allies, and the Royal Navy commenced operations against the "Regia Marina". On 16 June "Moonstone" rescued the crew of the Norwegian tanker "James Stove" which had been sunk by the Italian submarine earlier that day. On 18 June "Galileo Galilei" was sighted and attacked by British aircraft, and "Moonstone" was dispatched to find her. On 19 June "Moonstone" obtained an ASDIC contact and attacked, dropping two depth charges. The submarine’s captain, realizing his opponent was smaller
The Moonstone The Moonstone The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round". "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White" are widely considered to be Collins' best novels, and Collins adapted "The Moonstone" for the stage in 1877, although the production was performed for only two months. The Moonstone of the title is a diamond, not to be confused with the semi-precious moonstone