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Trauma

I joined HMS Statice and spent the next two years in the Atlantic operating from Halifax, Nova Scotia...

Workings of the wireless office on HMS Whelp

I was in a miscellaneous deck made up of telegraphists, coders, signalmen etc, all torpedoists and seamen...

Last letter home from HMS Repulse

Clarence survived the sinking of the Repulse which went down along side the HMS Prince of Wales as part of...

The Gracie Fields

The story starts with my dad working at Thorneycrofts, Southampton, ship building and repair, 1940. The...

Last Convoy out of Malta

After training, we joined the HMS Eagle at Liverpool, taking the Ark Royal's place in the Mediterranean...

Frederick Hayzen Smith- Royal Navy

The return home for training for commission: Two week preparatory course at Lancing College Four weeks at...

One of the tragedies of World War Two, The sinking of H.M.T. Rhona.

One of the tragedies of World War Two, The sinking of H.M.T. Rhona....

North Atlantic Incident

In January 1943 I left Greenock, Scotland aboard the RMS Orduna to join a convoy heading into the North...

In the Fleet Air Arm

We lost 2 Fulmar fighters and I think 11 or 12 Albacore bomber aircraft. When the war had finished I'd...

Pembroke V - W.R.N.S.

I joined the W.R.N.S. in November 1943, was sent to Eastcote, Middlesex, as part of Pembroke V, working on...

Relief in the Navy.by Stephanie Burton

A long time ago my great uncle Billy fought in the Merchant Navy in the month of March 1943 at the age...

The cat that saved my life

At the entrance to Portsmouth harbour, there were depth charges and explosives to protect the harbour...

Memories as a wireless operator

From Chatham I was posted to HMS Hornet the coastal forces base in Hampshire and assigned to M.L 907 an...

A stoker mechanic's story

After a spell at HMS Victory in Portsmouth I was sent to Liverpool to HMS Rosemary, an LSD... It was while...

Crossing the Atlantic

On a cold day in September 1940 we said goodbye to my Father while I waited with Mother and with my brother...

John Butler's Time at Sea

After some time docked in Alexandrea on the Ierax once more we moved - to a net laying cruiser called the...

Crossing the Atlantic

On a cold day in September 1940 we said goodbye to my Father while I waited with Mother and with my brother...

Telegraphist's 'IF'

Leo's record papers show he signed on at 18 years of age as an Ordinary Telegraphist -Until the end of...

Newlyn 1943 'Comedy of Errors'

During 1943 a Crown Film Unit came to Newlyn to make a film about the Air Sea Rescue, and High Speed Launch...

Battle of the Atlantic

British Warships involved in escorting HG73, some for the whole and some for part of the voyage were: HMS...

Abandon Ship!

Looking out along the deck, I saw a young sub-lieutenant walking towards me, and when he was just about...

A MERCHANT SEAMAN'S DEATH

JAMES HENRY WEALE was born 1909 in Liverpool and it was told through the family that he died at sea during...

Naval exploits

This was a very slow voyage, until we reached Gibraltar, where the three frigates sailed for Aden via Malta...

Incident at Trincomalee

This incident had to be kept very quiet as both the floating dock and HMS Valiant had been badly damaged,...

Training Ship Conway and the RN College, Greenwich.

But things changed, we are now talking 1940, and the war was on, of course, and during the two year period...

Frank Edwards

The boats used to call into the Cumbrian port of Silloth and it was on one run ashore that he met my...