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A Day in the Life of HMS Victorious

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for 'gallantry in the face of the Enemy, and for setting...

Tales of Pikey

Immediately all available sources were mobilised,and my patrol was dispatched to Shoreditch Town Hall for...

North Atlantic Convoy PQ17

During the Second World War, I was on Russian convoy duty in North Atlantic to Murmansk after Russia joined...

My Experiences in the Royal Navy

Our ship was the HMS Crane and our first operation was the invasion of Sicilly and then we went on to the...

Ark Royal Torpedoed

I was in the fleet arm during the Second World War and was on board the Ark Royal when we were torpedoed....

HMS Stonehenge

This is the story of hms stonehenge,which due to a mix up of time and place was not blessed before it...

Alf O’Neil-My Time In The Royal Navy (Between England, Greece and Germany).

Alf joined the Navy primarily because he was interested in travelling to America, as his brother had been...

Joined the Navy: Saw the World

Prudential Insurance moved out of London to Nuneaton in the war so the branch was a very busy one!.. In...

New book: Royal Navy Camps in Portsmouth

I did some research and found out it wasa former naval camp, a satelitte camp to HMS Daedalus Lee on Solent...

Landing on Gold Beach

When Dad passed away after a long gruelling illness he was cremated locally, but we were requested to take...

830 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, Malta

So after a few months with the holding squadron at Dekheila, he was posted to 830 Squadron in Malta....

Lancashire to Washington DC part 6

We arrived at Greenock, changed at Glasgow, at Preston and Blackburn and arrived at Burnley at midnight to...

I Died for Freedom: Stoker in a Minesweeper on the Russian Convoys

I was a Stoker Petty Officer in a minesweeper on the Russian Convoys....

Shore Leave during the Greenock Blitz

Royal Naval Barracks a scene of activity, firemen, rescue workers, digging, probing, somebody remarks...

The Fish Ate Them Whilst I was on My Boat.

As the boat began to sink and all of his friends and collegues struggled to save themselves from drowning,...

The Japanese Surrender of Singapore: Witnessing History in the Making

HMS Sussex sailed to Mombasa on the east coast of Africa and we were based here, carrying out conveying...

Joining Routine

I joined Chatham in November 1942,to be met by a large chap who said here's another one. We were shown...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, THE BOMBARDMENT OF GENOA—OPERATION RESULT.

The Firedrake took an unusual part in the Fleet action in bombarding the Italian port,. We were to stand...

My Family's War

Her brother, James Mc Afee served as a stoker on HMS repulse and later HMS Prince of Wales and was sank in...

Dunkirk: HMS Intrepid

He told her "If I don't appear tomorrow, cycle as far inland as you can". He did not return as...

Torpedoed at Dunkirk

I am narrating this story on behalf of my uncle Herbert Drake, I never met him as I was only 4 years...

In the Thick of It

Men with grievous injuries were brought in to be cared for by a very small and hard-pressed nursing staff...

Memories of Peter Green

Peter lived with his parents at the ‘Gas Works House’ and they had come from Coventry when his...

A Young Sailor's Yarn

On one occasion my head rested on the shoulder of a Land Army girl and she in turn rested on her other...

HMS Sirius

I then received another email from a man from Huddesfield called James Robinson who's farther had...

"I Saw How The Other Half of the World Lives"

In the war they called up 30 people from the Post Office to be attached to the Fleet Air Arm for special...