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Royal Navy and HM Submarine Service

He served in the Atlantic and Far East theatres of war and it was following the Tantalus's involvement...

Return of the Australian and New Zealand prisoners of war

On the 3rd of July 1945 I was a Naval Petty Officer ERA lon passage to Australia to join the British...

Recollections of the Wartime Navy by Albert Lister

I left HMS Iron Duke on April the 10th 1944 and arrived back in Portsmouth Barracks on the following day......

A dog called Shrapnell

When the 鈥淢ANCHESTER鈥� was steaming at the head of the line towards the Italian Fleet at the...

HMS Beagle to the rescue.

Whilst serving as a 21 year old Leading Seaman DJX312195 on a destroyer, HMS Beagle from June 1943 to June...

Just 3-5 seconds!

With the Warrant Officer at the wheel, off they went out of the wet dock, and with the ease born of...

WHAT A COINCIDENCE

In 1956 I was helping out at the Auckland Hospital Board's nurses graduation ball, in my capacity as...

Scorched by the Rising Sun

However, whilst we were in Durban, the Japanese air force bombed Pearl Harbour and created a new theatre of...

Battle of the Atlantic. Part Two

The convoy had been provided with an unusually powerful anti-submarine escort of 10 Corvettes and...

My First Wartime Voyage

Anzio chase me charlie

On the 23rd of January the destroyer HMS Janus was sunk by a glider bomb off Anzio few survivours... Off...

Our American Allies

We of ten, operated with units of the American Navy, also their Merchant Navy that lost so many of their...

Hello Africa

I was on deck before starting the night shift, when I saw a destroyer traveling along the horizon...

Waimarama

Several days later we boarded the S.S. Waimarama 11,000 tons in Wellington docks. The Waimarama and all on...

A Wee Submarine: My Service with X-craft (John Lorimer)

A Wee Submarine: My Service with X-craft. On Christmas Day, 1942, they launched three submarines, a T-boat...

One Man's War

This story,submitted by Neil Garside, is about his fathers war experiances.ONE MAN'S WAR...

JUI FREETOWN

I was on deck before starting the night shift, when I saw a destroyer traveling along the horizon...

A WAR TIME LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE

The Golden Hind鈥� in Sydney, then onto the destroyer 鈥楴orma鈥� and H.M.S....

Gloucester Castle

I told the family of Joseph Farnworth I was sailing to Cape Town on Queen Elizabeth 2 and would be passing...

Leading Signalman P/JX.158613 Leonard Henry Mitton Royal Navy

Leading SignalmanP/JX.158613 Leonard Henry Mitton Royal Navy 1938 -1942 Leonard Henry Mitton aged fifteen...

The Discovery of U-176

As a result, on the morning of May 15th, an American OS2U Kingfisher floatplane of Navy Scouting Squadron...

The Men Who Missed The Tide - 1st Selection

Captain J.S. Earl has written a series of poems in remembrance of the war veterans who returned, and of...

Utah Beach on D-Day 6th June 1944.

Arthur served in the Royal Navy in World War Two and was a friend of mine who lived in the same road...

Jack's Journey

HMS Implacable had a terrific welcome at Sydney and, after a couple of days there, we left for the Pacific...

THE DERRY YARD

I can only recall one ship being damaged by a u-boat and repaired in Derry and that was the HMS...

S.S. Jan Lievens

I will put men on every morning to scrub the mess room decks and clean the guns, etc and if you fail,...