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Journey to India

The next thing we knew was that we were to embark on the 'Ile de France', a large North Atlantic...

My War as a POW

HMS Belfast 60 Years On

Inspired by the log sheets copied from the records office at Kew describing HMS Belfast's action off...

Atlantic Convoy

It was a moonlight night and there we were in the middle of the Atlantic, just keeping the boat head-on to...

Mr West Goes East

We went to Belfast where we joined H.M.S. Begum, which was a U.S. built light escort aircraft carrier,...

Atlantic Crossing by convoy, 1943

Meeting his wife in Columbus, Ohio, they married before returning to Britain with the mission in the summer...

HMS RAMILLIES LEGEND

There are witnesses, to the fact, that certainly, on D-DAY, while bombarding the coast of Normandy, and...

My War Service 1939 - 1945/6

Troopship SS Rangitiki

Having now stopped at the Station we were ordered out and told to form up on the Platform.Then we marched...

"You went in a boy and you came out a man鈥�

I think England was saved because Germany invaded Russia. One was a serge navy blue suit for this country...

VE DAY 1945 HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA - A VICTORY CELEBRATION THAT WENT WRONG

After completing 6 weeks Training at Wallasey Sea School for the Merchant NavyI spent 9 months coasting...

H.M.S Brilliant 1942 - 1943

My experience of H.M.S. Brilliant was from 1st June 1942 until middle of February 1943, during which time...

They Fired The Last Shot

On board the Dido, from her launch to the day she accepted the surrender of the German Fleet in Copenhagen,...

Gadget for Governors

All my gunners had been taught by the Royal Navy and the maritime acc-acc Bofors gun crew, for hours and...

Overboard

Shortly afterwards, I realised that my side of the raft was slowly sinking, with the water creeping up my...

Thoughts On D-Day

A phrase that was often in my thoughts during a spell in the wild North Atlantic on board a small mine...

Dads' War - just a Coxswain!

As young as he was, my dad realised that if he went to work on a farm, he would have no chance...

The Sinking of the SS 'Oakcrest'

The other ships in the convey OB-244 that were lost along with SS Oakcrest were Cree, King Idwal and...

The Far Eastern Fleet January to August 1945

The remainder of the 720 consisted of frigates, sloops, submarines and a great miscellany of other ships...

Finding HMS Rodney

The Officer then clicked his fingers, sailors appeared and my kit and I were placed in a very smart green...

The U-boat war in the North Atlantic

In 1935 Karl Doenitz who was in charge of the German U-boat army, was convinced that the British would use...

Bombed at Lazaretto

The P36 and P39 were sunk in Lazareto Base and another badly damaged, so when we returned to Malta from our...

A sailors letter to his grandson

"I was an Air Raid Warden at the Post 70 Wembley Borough Council from the 11th May 1939 until the 26th...

Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese

We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government and the Japanese...

Voyages I & II

Much later a Cataliner Flying boat from the USA happened to spot us and sent a signal to the Admiralty in...

A Unique Story (With a Bucket)