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Another Door Part 2: Our Journey to Disaster

The old man poked his head round the radio room door and indicated that I should leave my post and give a...

Another Door Part 6: Benkulen the Bottleneck

With no compass to be found either on the prauw or in the town navigation would be precarious to say the...

Another Door Part 3: In Beleaguered Singapore

Negotiating Fullerton road and Robinson road and finally Anson road junction we arrived at the mission...

Another Door Part 1: War in the Far East

So, it was with a sigh of relief that we eventually set sail on December 16th, and much to Captain...

The Royal Navy on Omaha Beach

The second and third waves of LCAs from our flotilla had landed between 0700 and 0800, by which time the...

Another Door Part 4: Escape to Sea

The 'Pinna's' high-diving Sandy would stay with the 'Makota' and its passengers, George...

One of the Many (Re-edited): A Surgeon in the Royal Navy

By now I knew the correct method of address was to call him Chief because he was the Chief Petty Officer...

Another Door Part 5: The Road to Palembang

Mossie said that upon leaving Bengkalis, the Resident had added that the airfield at Pekam Baru had had...

HMS Whelp: Reminiscences of a Young Naval Officer

There was one period – I think during the journey from Trincomalee to Sydney – when we took on...

Another Door Part 7: Another Wrong Island

The main objective being taking Batavia and the docks at Tanjong Priok It wasn't until later that I...

HMS Euryalus — An Engineer's Reminiscences

Nobody had yet told us where we were going, but as we cleared the harbour, Captain Oliver Bellasis informed...

HMS Euryalus — An Engineer's Reminiscences

Lady Luck Part Three: Battle of the North Cape 1943

LADY LUCK Part Three Boxing Day, 26th December 1943, we were up in north Russia at the north cape, we were...

HMS Phoebe in World War Two

HMS Phoebe, along with ships of the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, was involved in the evacuation of Greek...

D-Day: The Very First to Arrive

HDML1383 and her crew, 1944 Here is a true-life story, written by my father-in-law, 'Engineman'...

A Tale of Six Scaffolding Poles: Juno Beach on D-Day

Unfortunately the sea was dead calm and we didn't land them onto a beach, they just stepped off at Rye...

From Singapore with thanks

I could hardly go down with my ship because I didn稚 have one, I could not desert my post so,...

The Malta Convoy 1942 Operation Pedestal

She turned away from the wind and at the same moment also, the main fleet, namely the aircraft carriers and...

Memories of WW2

In late November 1941, the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, comprising the battleships HMS "Queen...

Hong Kong - Lisbon Maru Sinking/2

The account which follows is based on the account by Martin Weedon in his book “Guest of an...

X-craft and Operation Source

In addition to handling the boat, the divers had to practise cutting through antisubmarine nets. This meant...

HMS Forward (1939-1945)

This is the story of the abandoned and little-known tunnels of Royal Naval Headquarters HMS Forward at...

On Board HMS Ramillies during the Normandy Invasion (D-Day)

The following diary of the events around the D-Day Landings was written by my father, Edward Francis...

The Secret Tunnels of South Heighton

As such, it was responsible for HMS Marlborough at Eastbourne, HMS Aggressive and HMS Newt at Newhaven, HMS...

HMS Bruiser's Mediterranean Commission 1943 - 1945

One of the saddest experiences I had was my friend, who was also a Petty Officer, we were lying off a...

A Snapshot of Eric's War

The Petty Officer said that he had become friendly with the Italian Padre in the hospital, where he said...