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Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1945 Episode 5

In April, 1944 I was instructed to report to the sub commissioners of the London Trinity House at...

The Westminster Hotel

I was, as you know wearing my steel helmet and greatcoat and hearing a lot of bombs coming down I drew away...

Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948. Episode 2

The first marine casualty to occur in the vicinity of the Humber was the loss of the fine passenger and...

HMS Hardy, Torpedoed On My Birthday

A Norwegian destroyer cut the u boat that attacked us in half. The Norwegian destroyer came with us into...

D-Day a bird in the water

I would be guiding up to twelve landing craft full of Canadian and British troops for despatch to Juno...

Petty Officer Fagan, my Father

HMS Godwit Recalled

The Fleet Air Arm took RAF Peplow over as RNAS Hinstock and in Naval manner it was named HMS Godwit. My...

HMS Defiance - Devonport

Just for strangers to that excellent ship it comprised three old tubs lashed together with gangways between...

H.M.S. Phoebe Light Cruiser

The friend who I met on the jetty who was on the Costa Rica did survive the war because I met him...

Sinking of Cornwall and Dorsetshire

The first full story of the sinking of the cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire in the Indian Ocean on...

On Liaison with the Yugoslav Navy

My service was rather unique in the Navy because I trained to be a signal man in the Navy and I was...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, THE BOARDING AND CAPTURE OF A DUTCH TRADER (SALLY MERSK) AND THE PASSENGER SHIP 鈥� CHANTILLY 鈥� A FREN

The Chantilly was carrying some French troops we subsequently found out and the Dutch trader was carrying...

Minna 1942-45

At the beginning of the war I had joined the R.N.V.R. and when in 1942 the 鈥淒unnottar Castle鈥�...

HMS Barham - Bombardment of Bardia, 1941

The Italians are being hammered now in the Western desert as well as in Albania, and it seems that the...

Sanstrule

On arrival in New York, the thirty or so crew members who had signed up in Liverpool with Geoffrey were...

RN Service

I took a trade test in Portsmouth and was made a Leading Motor Mechanic and allocated to Combined...

Battle of Walcheren

SSEF consisted of 6 LGGs and 2 LCGs, 6 LCFs, 6 LCSs and five rocket craft, a force of 25 craft, there...

Service on board H.M.S.Subtle

I trained at H.M.S Dolphin at Gosport and H.M.S Elfin at Blyth, Northumberland, finally doing sea training...

The Death of Amy Johnson

You may not have heard of Amy Johnson but in Britain her name and fame were as well known as Amelia...

My Time at War

I saw a lot of blood and bodies鈥� the War started in 1939 when I was 15, I couldn't get into the...

Winter's Rages

The Norwegians wanted to enable the combatants to stay on Soroya and defy the German trawlers who were...

H.M.S. Wisteria

When I came out Wisteria was on patrol, so I was transferred to a drifter 鈥� Fairhaven 鈥� which...

The Landings at Anzio - A View from the Sea.

I was serving on board the destroyer HMS Inglefield on 22nd January 1944, and whilst we did not see what...

Three Ex-Servicemen Reminisce

He was to take it to Brize Norton into RAF service and was being towed by a Sterling bomber... It grew dark...

A Paddle Ship Goes to War

Our duties as an Anti-Aircraft ship was to patrol out of Sheerness into the north sea Giving anti- aircraft...

The Legend of Pedro

In my Japanese Prison Camp, there were seven long prison sheds to house the prisoners, each one divided...