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As we anchored in the bay of Naples at 22:00 captain Belben received a signal ordering him to prepare for...
And then, suddenly, two chaps 鈥 civilians 鈥 came into the cutting-room: one in a blue rain-coat...
We were guided in by Aldis signals from a Naval Beach Signal station, under an overhead barrage of shells...
After two months undergoing repairs in Durban, South Africa, Barham sailed on July 31st, 1941 to re-join...
It was decided to test the loyalty of the French population in Colonial French West Africa, and attempt to...
His only symptom was a slight headache and his temperature was 100掳F. Two days later he developed a...
My thoughts on St. Valentine's Day are perhaps unusual and for me it is difficult to bring to mind...
After the fog incident and leading the convoy to Archangel our first surprise was a Russian woman pilot to...
The eldest Harold No.1 Son joined the Royal Navy in August 1917 and served 4 years as a Sickberth Attendant...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
Pom-poms and Morse code After training I was sent to North Shields to erect guns on either side of the...
The ship was called the Samstrule, because it was built by Uncle Sam and named after the Irish river, the...
I was promptly sent packing, and when I got back to Fairey's I was given another rollicking by the...
The "Cairo" at first did guardship duty as part of the Dover Patrol, being anti-aircraft cover for...
From August 1939 on, he was at the Miscellaneous Weapons and Development Department of the Admiralty...
Unusual in that as a naval officer he was on the beach at the evacuation of Dunkirk and he landed on the...
The so-called ambush occurred whilst I was a crew member of Her Majesty's Gun Boat 657 in May 1943......
The X-Craft were based at Loch Cairnbaun, North West Scotland, and the operation to sink the enemy ships...
After this Seaman Gunner Hazell served on destroyers including HMS Mohawk in the Norwegian Campaign and in...
After this Seaman Gunner Hazell served on destroyers including HMS Mohawk in the Norwegian Campaign and in...
No potatoes only rice cakes The Samstrule remained in the Mediterranean following the invasion of southern...
Now, there are two mainline stations, and as I'd never been this way before, I picked the nearest, St....
His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the...
Seeing my expression, and in order to prevent a punch-up, he was obliged to explain to me that some of the...
In June 1942, HMS Barrymore sailed out of the South African city of Cape Town towing a damaged corvette,...
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