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Minesweeper 109

Ultimately I boarded the small wooden minesweeper which had no name, just MMS 109 based in Queenborough......

HMS Ullswater - Crew List

Cook Son of John Edwin and Martha Ellen Camsell of Heeley, Sheffield. Son of William and Isobel Ross of...

John Carpenter's Wartime Reminiscenes

In 1943/4 I was serving with Royal Navy coastal forces based at E and S coast ports- Yarmouth, Felixstowe...

Narrow Escape on Training Course and First Trip to Sea

Then on to Bombay, after leaving there, across the Indian Ocean to East Africa, and around the Cape into...

THE NEAR LOSS OF HM SUBMARINE TRIBUNE

Tribune took the huge seas, but the for'd external torpedo tubes gave us anxiety... We broke off the...

THE NEAR LOSS OF HM SUBMARINE TRIBUNE

Tribune took the huge seas, but the for'd external torpedo tubes gave us anxiety... We broke off the...

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The taxi driver was obviously aware of this, and arrived just after the service to take Geoffrey and the...

A "5-bob seat" - with lemonade

In June 1944 my ship - HMS 鈥淧earl鈥�, 600-ton Asdic Trawler of the Royal Naval Patrol Service -...

Royal Naval Flying

In July 1945 1772 Naval Air Squadron boarded HMS Indefatigable and joined the British Task Force 37 which...

One Man's War -Part 30: June 10,1945 -- July 24, Back to the War

I was beyond the point of no return and was forced to continue with an air speed that was considerably...

tHE NEAR LOSS OF HM SUBMARINE TRIBUNE

Tribune took the huge seas, but the for'd external torpedo tubes gave us anxiety... We broke off the...

Battle of the Atlantic Part Three

I have since learned that Rear Admiral Creighton, our Master Captain Harold Martin, Captain Frith of...

Sinking of the Browning

Eventually we entered the Mediterranean and proceeded along the Algerian coast to a place called ARZEW BAY...

Recollections of the St Nazaire raid

St Nazaire was an important port for the Germans because it was the only dock available on the Atlantic...

hms barham

H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was leading, followed by H.M.S. Barham which was about 300 yards astern of us, and...

George Male鈥檚 story part 3 of 3

I was a good swimmer and there was a destroyer HMS MARNE standing by to pick up survivors... The next day...

The sinking of HMS Ark Royal

Sea power in the 1930鈥檚 was the first line of defence in the British Empire and for the British Fleet...

My war experiences

I joined the navy at HMS Royal Arthur at Skegness and with a number of others I travelled to HMS Cabbala at...

Six in One Trip: U762 - 8 February (Type VIIC)

My ship was out in the deep field on the convoys port bow when a shout from the port lookout drew the...

What did you do in the War, Daddy?

I lived in London, but was told if I came to Glasgow there was a job for me as Royal Naval Auxiliary...

INVASION ALARMS IN CORNWALL

It was a foggy November night when a Coastguard auxiliary, from his lonely duty post at The Lowlands, the...

Voyage around the world

At Odessa, we picked up allied troops, who had been liberated from German POW Camps by the Russian Army and...

Re: Bob Biggs Codebreaker The day I helped the US gain revenge for Pearl Harbour

We decoded messages sent from the Solomon Islands to Tokyo which said:- 鈥淩unning short of ammunition...

WESTERN APPROACHES

After this time I went home because Roland was sent to Scotland, and when I arrived back in Leicester, they...

All for Norway (Alt for Norge)

During the war when I was a little girl, my parents Jack and Madge Lyon owned the Imperial Hotel in Queen...

Alexander Moore sees action in the Royal Navy

It was like HMS Sea Eagle at Derry 鈥� it was a shore base. Also in Rangoon, because of being a...