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The Channel Dash Heroes Part 1

As they raced towards the smoke, made by the German E-boats screen it suddenly cleared and Pumphrey and...

Adventures of a young Wireless Operator at sea

We were billeted at HMCS York, a shore station by Lake Ontario. The ship's siren gave a fond farewell...

Escape from Singapore 1941/42. Part 2

The only food was biscuits and a few tins of bully beef out of the 3 life boats, but as there were...

Memories of a Bumboater in Moville

Two business men in Moville arranged through the NAFFI boat that was tied up at Moville pier for a...

Survival At Sea

Arriving back in Freetown, South Africa I was given a draft to join HMS Birmingham, and while on the depot...

Hugh Mc Devitt - a Canadian Sailor in Derry

McDevitt, Royal Canadian Navy Veteran and has been added to the site with their permission. We'll have...

Life in the Fleet Air Arm, by Mr A W Rowell

My life in the Fleet Air Arm, by Mr A W Rowell

"Operation Demon" H.M.S. Hero.

Having escorted a convoy of evacuated soldiers from Greece and survivors from the bombed troopship...

William Cummins at Sea - Part 2

Blew up DEMS gunners legs and because they were on deck, and did one or two other bits of damage and as...

In the Main, Here and There

In June 1942 I joined H.M.S. Phoebe as, although at sea for part of the time until then, I was still inhome...

Anatomy of an Asdic Trawler

HMS "Pearl" - T22 - was formerly the "Dervish" of Hull, a 600-ton distant-water trawler,...

A Destroyer and Aircraft Carrier at War by Jack Taylor Chapter 8, Carrier service

The three aircraft carriers were flying off Seafire and Corsair Fighters and we also had Barracuda Torpedo...

Mulberry Harbour

On the 13th August 1944 we went across to the artificial harbour at Arromanches, towing a huge drum from...

The Q Ships

The armament consisted of one 6鈥� BL gun mounted on a platform on the poop deck, manned by Merchant...

Boy From Brazil

I left by night train from Belo Horizonte on 27th July to Rio only to be told on arrival that I had...

HMS Recruit - June 1944

The waters were thick with craft of all kinds: big transports to invasion flotillas, capital warships, some...

MY FATHER'S WAR

Consequently they issued a warning to them through the offices of the Dock Police in the port in question...

TOMMY BURNS FROM DRUMAHOE, DERRY REMEMBERS THE SINKING OF HMS REPULSE

During his time in the Navy Tom and Elaine had lived with her parents in Messines Park. Tom's duties...

HMS Antelope in collision 1940

Bulkheads were being shored up and other preparations made so that when the other destroyer went astern out...

Merchant Navy High Gallantry Awards

In the following L.G. refers to The London Gazette, Ll.W.M. to Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea,...

Captain Kleiss: The Battle of Midway Part One

Our Captain Murray outlined our ambush strategy, and said that the Japanese would make a feint attack on...

Education, Education, Education

The next day I received a telegram from the Royal Navy to report to their office in Liverpool. I was soon...

Serving in Submarines

En route they received a signal saying that Medway had been torpedoed and sunk by the enemy leaving the...

Peter Burns' Story Continued

He was an Englishman that was working in Germany for the Germans giving false information, naming all the...

Prelude to the outbreak of war

I was a messenger and whilst making my way along one of the passage ways below the upper deck toward the...