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The Lack of Nelson

With Hitler and his armies having not learned the lesson of Napoleon - namely that of undertaking an...

The Sailor That Never Went to Sea

Posted to RAF Warboys in Cambridgeshire where they trained some of the 鈥楶athfinders鈥� I worked...

David Ritchie of HMS Baraham

At the beginning of World War II, David Ritchie's ship HMS Barham was recalled from the Mediterranean...

Dunkirk 1940

At the time of Dunkirk my father, Fred Wilkinson ERA, MX48140, was under training at H.M.S. Dolphin, the...

My Naval War in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean

My first ship was the HMS Carinthia, which I joined in Plymouth in1939 my rank was Petty Officer. We landed...

Aboard L.C.G.(M) 1944/1945

Two of us from signals were chosen to become part of a 22 man crew for a major landing craft built at...

Hell Fire Corner

Suddenly a light blinked from the cliffs and a message came from the Vice Admiral at Dover telling us we...

D-Day Memories

Our job being a gun boat was to escort the soldiers into the beach, as close as we could get... There were...

Bill Sanderson's Wartime Experiences -Part 5 - The End of the War

When we got back to Naples the troopship that took us back was the Caernarfon Castle, one of the...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, BATTLE OF SPARTIVENTO鈥擮PERATION COLLAR

The events unfolded in a planned way and involved Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers, the Ark Royal aircraft...

The War of Two Sailors part three

One which landed close to LST 63 caused minor damage but Harold and other members of the crew were able to...

Sun, Sea and Sand

At sea the war continued with the sinking of the German Battleship 'Bismark' 'The Battle of the...

HMS Barham - With Force "H": Part 2

Following a two-month spell at Scapa Flow during the summer of 1940, HMS Barham sailed to Freetown, Sierra...

A Member: Remembers - December 13, 1939 The Battle of the River Plate 65 Years Ago.

In June 1939 HMS Exeter has nearly finish her commission in the West Indies and South American station,...

Top Secret: Special Service Onboard HMS Bulolo

After training, I was posted to HMS Bulolo which was the HQ ship of Force G. We did 4 major landings. The...

The Rescue Ships

The COPELAND then went to Halifax for her next 4 voyages and then Gibraltar, then another trip to Murmansk...

Ozzie Osgood's Wartime Memories

By the age of 14 (1942), I was working at Weymann's Motor Bodies at Addlestone, Surrey, later moving to...

fate is a strange thing

My story starts well before the 2nd. world war as in 1935 aged 16yrs my parents apprenticed me in the...

Wartime Service in the Navy

I was a Shotley on HMS Ghanges for nine months doing training before going to the Naval Barracks at Chatham...

A Time to Remember

The Black Prince was the fourth in Naval History of that name, a modified dido class cruiser of 6010 tons...

George's Story

The local doctor's son had joined the RAF and left his 350 Norton in the garage... We put the Norton in...

Death of a Ship

Written notes found after the death of my father, Dick MacKintosh, in December 1998, describing his...

HMS Barham - Alexandria, September 1941

The following are extracts from censored letters written from the Barham by my father, Surgeon-Commander...

My Time as a Police Runner, and as a Royal Marine

I did odd things like unexploded bombs, stopping parked cars and vehicles going into the road like with...

Escort duties at Scapa Flow on the "H.M.S. Volage" 1943 by Leslie Atkinson

Built in Cowes, the 鈥淰olage鈥�, after working up trials, was assigned to the 26th D.F. based at...

The Fate of the HMS Juniper

Raised in the coal mining town of Selston, Nottinghamshire, in March 1940 he would find himself aboard the...