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A telegram, a trenchcoat, and the sinking of HMS Broadwater.

John Scott, a Boiler Fireman at Pearce and Becketts, was having a break from work when some of his fellow...

My war years in Bedford and the Navy - Part Three

Now our type of Destroyer wasn't the type of Destroyer really that was designed to protect Battleships...

HMS Bonaventure X-Craft Depot Ship

The Bonaventure's boat's crew motored me out to the Flagship moored in the harbour. An officer,...

Wartime experiences in the Royal Navy - Part One

The Station was bombed and we used to walk from Halfar down to Kalafrana for our meals and to come back...

1943 A year to remember - Part 1

They turned out to be two large enemy ships laden with 100 octane petrol tanks and German special SS troops...

Captain Walker RN Part Four

Walker sank two more U-boats on this trip, and Milwaukee was duly delivered... Although the enemy could be...

History of Service with the Royal Navy 1943-1947

I started my service with the Royal Navy on 27th September 1943 under NS/AF Act on arrival at H.M.S....

Life Aboard the 6th Minesweeping Flotilla

HMS Gozo became part of the 6th Minesweeping Flotilla seeing service as convoy escorts across the Atlantic...

THE 1939-1945 RUSSIAN GOLD MEDAL - PART ONE

The ships in harbour included the King George V Class Battleships Duke of York and Anson, the Cruisers...

The short life of H.M.S. Ekins

About April 1944 we were transferred to the East coast to Immingham on the Humber from where we did nightly...

Some recollections of service afloat during WW2 - Part 3

With five fellow Officers , including the Padre , I ventured to Basutoland to Qachanek , an administrative...

My war years in the UK and the Royal Navy

I had been told his wife lived on a house boat berthed in the dock at Woodbridge and sometimes Count...

RAF Bomb Disposal Norway

William Cummins at Sea - Part 1

One voyage we loaded coal for Kingston Jamaica... It was war time, we were on our own and one night we were...

Flashes of Memory

When you elected to go to sea, especially as a Cadet, it wasn't that you THOUGHT it MIGHT be a good...

Calshot & Newlyn 1942/43

When I arrived at Calshot in the company of my friend and mentor, Corporal Bill Dyce, it was to join the...

Convoys, and rescue from the sea 1942 — 45

Fully dressed we joined the crew by the lifeboat station, the boat already lowered onto the sea with men...

Operating radar

Then later on I was posted to HMS Carlisle which was a gunnery cruiser, an anti-aircraft cruiser, the...

HMS FIJI - THE BATTLE OF CRETE

The Fiji, along with HMS Gloucester, HMS Kandahar and HMS Kingston, had been sent to assist HMS Greyhound...

The King's Postal Order

The King told me to report to HMS Royal Arthur - no it's not a battleship, it's a shore station in...

My war years in Bedford and the Navy - Part Two

In the Army they took you whatever but in the Navy you still had to have one and so I had to...

A Marine in the Med - Egypt & HMS Aurora

Kenneth More, the film actor, was a lieutenant on HMS Aurora — he was the Entertainments officer....

J34 - HMS Tenby - Part 2 - Operation Overlord

However, on 5th June 1944 sea conditions had improved, although still very choppy, and at 12.55 on that day...

Wartime Experience of Joseph Sacharin Part 2

I then took a bus to Cambridge where I was met by a Mrs. Hyde, who drove me to her neighbours farm...

Everyone Has 15 Minutes Of Fame, and Other Stories

On 9 November 1942 I sailed from Liverpool on the tanker Comanchee on the staff of Commodore Magee Convoy...

George Lee's War in the Royal Navy

We finally got back to England and to Chatham, and then I was sent to join the East Mediterranean Fleet,...