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My War

The ship was to be depot ship in Trincomalee Harbour, so all the officers went out and bought themselves...

A trip at sea

On arrival the lorries and extra guns were removed and replaced with Coal dust for Algiers and Depth...

A trip at sea

On arrival the lorries and extra guns were removed and replaced with Coal dust for Algiers and Depth...

Kite Flying at Dunkirk

Unusual in that as a naval officer he was on the beach at the evacuation of Dunkirk and he landed on the...

THE OPENING WAR YEARS IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC

Mon.July 22nd.1940 The Raider has gone North,it is thought,and we have been ordered to go South again to an...

My experiences on the Russian Convoy's

On completion of the training I was given a travel warrant, and ordered to travel to Rosyth to join HMS...

An Alarming experience on Convoy SC94

Hearing screaming from the abandoned port boat, I observed that a young deckhand had his hand jammed in the...

HMS Rodney - Operation Torch

Much later the pilot, Hooky Walker, and myself were called to the bridge and the Captain told us that he...

John Mills: Chapter 11

Ourselves, Volage's ships company, stood down from action stations which meant I, along with other crew...

Sinking of the Elsa

The captain and the mate and the Third Officer got away from the bridge in the captain's gig, a small...

"Goodnight sorry for sinking you" - An Apology

Goodnight Sorry for Sinking you鈥�, an apology uttered by Kapitain Karl-Friedrich Merten of German...

Naval service in West Africa

When war actually broke out we were on holiday visiting relatives in London and I can remember the...

One Man's War -Part 22: March 10, 1945 -- June 1,1945

Mog Mog Cemetery For the few days we were at Ulithi anchorage we were anchored 26 miles from the island...

Very Important Persons

A gangplank was laid between us, then the Wilton's crew stood to attention as on the Orion's...

Recollections of Leading Seaman Herbert Bunting Part 1 - Rescue of Refugees from the Sinking of the Empire Patrol

The captain turned the Trouncer to go to their aid and as we approached the burning Empire Patrol, we could...

The Rosetree & The Eagle (Part 1 of 5)

Victorious', one of the latest armoured aircraft carriers, with the massive merchant 鈥楤risbane...

Forth Bridge Faux Pas

After a time, I was sent to Dover to join HMS Boreas, a destroyer on The Dover Patrol in the English...

HMS Cotswold - Collision At Sea

I was ordered to join HMS Cotswold a Hunt Class Destroyer attached to the 16th Destroyer Flotilla,...

The Buccaneers/London Navy

The SGB I was sent to was called "Grey Seal" and the senior officer of the flotilla of steam...

BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: The trip out

I was supposed to report to the centre at Blackpool on a Monday morning, but because of a delay in crossing...

A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE AND BEYOND PART 1

Following upon that incident, we proceeded to Reykjavik, where the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, came...

Sidney Lyles; a life on water

She was taken into dry dock at Brooklyn navy yard and the crew was given permission to go ashore, which Sid...

Words Of Comfort From The Padre

I was in the leading boat in our flotilla and as I looked back at the other five, directly behind them I...

My Experiences in Canada, Indian and Pacific Oceans during WW2

The wireless training was quite straight forward in Anson's, flying about one hundred miles from base,...

The Second Battle Of Narvik: HMS Cossack's Story

The destroyers sped down this long, wide fjord leaving WARSPITE behind, and as they turned the corner into...

Athens and Piraeus were suddenly bombed and strafed

Perth and Ajax, another Australian cruiser, refuelled in Piraeus and also topped up their ammunition. He...