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Cape Howe

I was fascinated to read Sheila Dawn's account of Scotland's Kennedy brothers and of the fate of...

My Pen Friend Sailor

At Little Heath School I gained a sailor pen pal from one of His Majesties ships,. I wrote to my sailor...

A Memorable Journey

My dad was an R.S.M. in the Seaforth and we had spent six years in Egypt, and China... On arrival in...

A close shave for the "Pacific Star"

In 1942 or thereabouts, Blue Star Line's 鈥淧acific Star鈥� was loaded down to her marks and...

Peter

I remember celebrating my 21st Birthday in the Indian Ocean on my way to Bombay. I took part in the CCI...

Up And At Em

1940 saw me enlisting in the Royal Marines,at Chatham and I did my training at Alum Bay in the Isle of...

My Royal Navy Service between 1940 and 1951

My first ship was the destroyer HMS Cossackand I was aboard when she was sunk by a German U-Boat in the...

Retreat from Dunkirk

My brother John A. Tompkins always known to us as Jack was a regular sailor when war broke out and he took...

Navy Days

The name of my ship was H.M.S. Grindall. On leaving the U.S.A. we went to Newfoundland, from there we...

GORDON WELLS - MEMORIES OF THE WAR - MERCHANT NAVY

Because of certain eating prowesses a contest had been arranged for a meatball-eating contest between...

Queen Mary

> >My work? well myself & 2 others, with 3 "Dems"made up the six man crew of >one...

Torpedoed in the Med

One of the landing craft had crashed around the deck but myself with some navy crew managed to salvage the...

Forming a Territorial Army Unit in Belfast

591 Unit spent our time ensuring that no undesirable cargo boats came up Belfast Lough. The unit was...

The Sinking of Tanker Davenger

Norman Donovan, born 1914, was a Merchant Navy Officer and made 32 Atlantic crossings in convoys carrying...

The scattering of Convoy PQ.17

As a Royal Navy signalman in HMS Palomares, an anti-aircraft cruiser, we were escorting the ill-fated PQ.17...

Life after War

Elizabeth Rice conducted the interview and Mark Jeffers transcribed the story. If they had have been on HMS...

Ted Butcher RN ( signaller)

This Island, a British protectorate, lay between the toe of Italy and North Africa across the supply lines...

North Atlantic Run

The whole crew were the transferred to HMS Bayntun the first escort built under the lease lend agreement,...

Protecting the Russian Convoy

Vernon was, after survivors leave, drafted to Motor Torpedo Boats in the Mediteranean, taking part in the...

Pembroke Dock 1944 'Seal Of Approval'

As the coxswain of the seaplane tender known as the 'Crash boat' I was instructed to come to the...

A SOUTH AFRICAN SAILOR'S STORY

My father was a young man living in Cape Town, South Africa when the war broke out. The film 鈥淚ll Met...

My WRNS Experience

In September 1940 I joined the WRNS and first of all was stationed at Headquarters, London which then was...

City of Benares

No.6 Unit personnel were on the Athlone Castle liner, one of several 'Castle' ships in what was...

My WRNS Experience

In September 1940 I joined the WRNS and first of all was stationed at Headquarters, London which then was...

Livin' For nothin' on Malta

I served in Malta from 1940-43. after that I was on a ship, the Zarathusa, in the Atlantic....

Taking of a ship's bell

We were returning from a sailing boat trip to German occupied Crete. Back on my own boat, with the captive...