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'A Wish Come True' ...........Ponam Island

After sampling the generous hospitality of the Australian people, we embarked on the escort carrier H.M.S....

Sunk - Twice! Part 2

This brought us into the Indian Ocean and the nearest port was Columbo in Ceylon. We anchored in the...

Round The World With The RNVR (1940-1946)

Then instead of returning to the UK, we were stationed at the Russian naval base of Polyarnoe to do some...

HMS Eskimo D-Day Action

We were sent on leave at the end of January to await a seagoing draft and I was soon to join the...

The Scapa Flow Convoys HMS Matchless

My war

Whilst there we were used to ferry the landing craft from the yankee liberty ships, which had brought them...

Arthur's Memories: 3 - Mediterranean Wanderings

The one that I joined was HMML 1254 and had been built around the River Amble, commissioned and sailed with...

THE ATLANTIC STAR - PART TWO

Our Tanky became drunk, perhaps on rum saved-up for Christmas, came up on deck, somehow scrambled down into...

Stan Foreman's War Years 1939-1945 (Part 1)

A British force consisting of battleships Renown and Ramillies, aircraft carrier Ark Royal, Berwick and...

Leslie Neal - War Time Memories Part 1 of 2

I reported to a hall in Wellesley Road, Croydon for a medical examination and an IQ test and was soon on my...

Coastal Towing Salvage

Just above Gourock is a larger area of the Clyde known as the 'Tail of the Bank'. Here there is...

The Little Ships - Part 1

The routine was as follows; small coasters would load up at Leith down the river, and sail up past Port...

Sunk - Twice! Part 1

The drifter took me to a depot ship in Scapa Flow from which I was picked up by a motor cutter from...

49 days in an open boat

The rescued man is Gunner Sydney Ludlam, of 90, Weston Street, Sheffield, and the sailor, Sidney Hobson,...

Atlantic Tow

Our dredger wasn't ready so it was 1st November when we set off down river, calling at Sydney, Cape...

WAR EXPERIENCES as told in a letter to parents

Convoy to Russia

At eight this morning we suffered our first loss, two merchantmen were torpedoed and sunk by U-Boats and...

HMS Penn in Operation Pedestal(Part 1)

Astern of the battleships were four aircraft carriers: Victorious, Indomitable and Eagle operating...

H.M.S.WATCHMAN - PART TWO

(20) Grog was the nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon who, in 1740, incurred the everlasting displeasure of...

HMS Recruit - Part 2

The trawlers attached to us were badly shaken, and four men took to the water; a Motor gunboat went to...

My Story Bill Griffin-Part 2

Mrs. Burke was a very close and dear friend of my mother's and whenever I docked in Glasgow I would...

A MARINES STORY

This office in normal times dealt with Marines under the Naval Discipline Act, providing orderlies for the...

Captain Walker RN Part Three

Captain Walker's Old Boys Association attended their last function on Saturday 10th July 2004 at the...

MY BATTLES WITH VON-TIRPITZ, APPENDICITIS and KAMIKAZE

Unwilling to hazard their last battleship of that size in open conflict with Allied naval forces, the...

Escapers Escapade Part Three

A very senior Greek army officer and his daughter had reached Kythira Island and had asked that they be...

A civilian working in Devonport Dockyard

I cannot remember the actual sequence of events of 1940 but I think it was during that year that my Father...