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Madeline Roan's Story

The Suez Canal was closed so we came home via Durban and Cape Town, where we took on some Free French...

First on The Beach

D-Day came along and before I knew it i was changing into a rubber diving suit, climbing down into a LCA...

Hard Times on Hard Ships

Joining Royal Navy July 1942, trained ten weeks at H.M.S. Collingwood, thence to Egypt, back to Gibraltar...

COMMUNICATIONS COMMANDER

My father Commander Archie Pitman joined the RNVWR branch in Leicester and became in charge of this group...

Malta Convoy 1942, and D-Day serving on HMS Nelson

Malta Convoy We set off from Gibraltar in August 1942 on HMS Nelson en route to Malta....

Clan Chisholm

We duly completed our discharge at Calcutta and loaded in various Indian ports for the U.K. where I left...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: On The Atlantic

We learned that the port was in Oran, Algeria, North Africa, and that the sunken ships had been scuttled by...

WAR RECOLLECTIONS: June 1940 - Dec 1945 / Chapter 2

The German battleship Tirpitz was anchored in a fjord in northern Norway for a few months and aircraft from...

The War in the Mediterranaen

After this action we returned to Malta where, as a Gunnery Control Rating, I was surplus to requirements...

"THE RAW Power of nature" a typhoon

THE 12dec 1946 we were just getting back into harbour after sea duties and going up to a buoy to tie up...

Boy's Brigade to Naval Telegraphist - Early War Years

He lived in Whelley, Wigan, with his parents Jim and Sarah Taylor and brothers Fred, Jim and Alan and...

Storm Luck

My ship HMS Drangey with two other naval escorts rendezvoused with the floating dock towed by three...

"Close Encounter"

I was a young Engine-Room Artificer serving aboard the new cruiser HMS "Newcastle". After arriving...

The Battle of the Atlantic, from the inside

I was then sent to a Corvette, HMS Pink and we escorted convoys from Londonderry to America and St...

This a summary of a recorded interview

I was involved in what has now become known as the Yanghsei River Incident. HMS CONCORD had been captured...

Peter Easton, Nutley

I went to the Far East on an old Canadian Pacific liner called the Aurangi - ended up in Pietermaritzburg...

operaion draculer Rangoon 1945

HMS LCH 101 was an American Troop Landing ship, which had been converted as a Control for Invasion Duties....

Return to the Front, Relighting the Torch

A draft from the 8th Irish Battalion of the Kings’ Liverpool Regiment, destined to reinforce the 6th...

In the Battle for the Atlantic

In July 1943 Admiral Raeder, C-in-C of all U Boats admiteed that Germany had lost the battle of the...

THE MAN NEVER KNEW ON HMS KELLY

From the jigsaw of photographs he collected on his travels, I was able to piece together that he joined the...

SYDNEY TO HONG KONG RECLAIMED

On 13th June we arrived at Madras, India, where our aircraft markings were altered, as the Americans tended...

We operated from Rangoon, Burma - by Roy Hobden

I then volunteered for the coastal forces and was sent to Fort William in Scotland for training in the...

Nothing short of a miracle - The Battle of the Atlantic

It told of all the convoys crossing the Atlantic and the position of the U-boats. In July 1943 Admiral...

HMS Beagle to the rescue. (page 2)

The Diary refers to this event in some detail, filling in further details such as the fact that, after the...

Night Strikes from Malta

Heavily guarded convoys risked the narrows between Marritims and Cape Bon sought out by the famous MARYLAND...

Petty Officer Morgan Griffiths, RN

It was during one of these convoys,, that on 31st December, 1942, both HMS Bramble and HMS Achates were...