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Life in the Merchant Navy as a Radar Engineer - On board C.A.M.S, D.E.M.S and the Themistocles

On reaching the ship I was surprised to see the Greek Ensign flying and found that she had been handed over...

A Life at Sea, part 2 of 2

That was only half a day out a sea, we'd just got round the head land, then we was going up the...

Wartime memories of an Able Seaman - Part Two - 'North Atlantic Convoys' on HMS Bulldog. Capture of U boat U.110 on 9th May 1941

The Captain had said down here on the phones, ‘‘X’ gun man the whaler’ - which is...

My War as a Submariner by Joel Blamey - aged 101 years (the oldest surviving Submariner)

I oversaw the building of H.M Submarine 'Sanguine' which was an ordinary sub of the same class as...

Serving on HMS Anthony during Operation Ironclad

In order to surprise the resistance, the plan was to enter Diego Suarez harbour under the cover of darkness...

Chapter 5 Heading Home at last.

The Focke-Wulf Kondor — a four-engined German bomber mainly used for naval reconnaissance provided...

My experiences as schoolboy,civilian, matelot

My leave was extended to 28 days with instruction to report back to the HMS Trouncer in King George 5th...

Royal Navy Chronicles

I eventually heard in 1943 that I should travel to the Belfast Recruiting Office and if found fit I would...

Memories from a Scrapbook

Early in May 1944 I reported on board Cameronia at KGV Dock Glasgow where I was one of three Cadets. In...

Chilhood memories

The Merchant Navy Club was formed for both officers and seamen, and my father who was Chairman of Furness...

Childhood memories

The Merchant Navy Club was formed for both officers and seamen, and my father who was Chairman of Furness...

Herbert Frank Napper's WW2 Record

They sailed from England to the Mediterranean where, at Valletta in Malta, H.M.S. Tuscan joined other...

A Torch in the Fog

THE SINKING OF THE H.M.S. WARWICK

This story is of my husband, Jim, when his ship, the destroyer H.M.S. Warwick, was torpedoed and sunk off...

HMS Hardy Part 4 - The 1st Battle of Narvik

On the afternoon of the 9th April 1940, Captain Warburton-Lee led his five ships up the fjord and on...

John Wright, his service for the duration

However, on that day John's brother, Joseph William Wright, was killed when HMS Wakeful was sunk, the...

Narvik — April 1940

Her radio operator was Aberdonian Basil Skinner, a young Marconi employee, who had already crossed the...

People's War according to John Gilbey - Chapter Four

The next problem was to get from Greenock to Glasgow, mostly that was done by hitching a lift on a Tate...

The Gates Of Hell

I have just received my 3rd medal from Russia this is the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversary Medal and one...

A Marine on HMS Fidelity

HMS Fidelity was known as Le Rhone or Le Rhin first and the crew were a mixed bag of French Belgium, Arabs...

One Young Man's War at Sea

Joined the 7th Destroyer Squadron at Scapa Flow with an intensive work-up programme that included shore...

HMS Tyne, Burma and India

After a couple of weeks in Greenock I embarked on HMS Tyne, a destroyer depot ship I knew well from my days...

Yugoslavia & The Dalmatian Islands

We remained at Veli Rat until 21.00 hours on December 2nd 1944, when in company with LCG's 4 and 8 and...

Sydney to Liverpool in seven months

We discharged at Lake Timsah on the Suez Canal and Port Said, and made a return voyage with phosphate and...

In the war zone when I shouldn't have been

The French used a thatched cottage on the Helford as their base and there was a big 3-masted schooner,...

Ambuscade destroyer

After a week or so the ship was sent to a place to have newly invented equipment fitted to the base ,it...