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A Boy Seaman on HMS Ramillies

At the start of the war HMS Ramillies was in New Zealand... HMS Ramillies then went back to Portsmouth to...

Life on Royal Naval Camp 1944/45

I was the Naval Stores Wren based in the Victualling Office with 5 Victualling Wrens and a Chief Petty...

Life after War

If they had have been on HMS Pink and looked ashore to see those poor boys getting off those boats and...

The Japanese Surrender in Yokohama Bay

The atom bomb had just been dropped on Hiroshima and the Japanese had surrendered. We were told the...

The Torpedoing of the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow

I was mobilised on 6th September 1939 and sent by train from Portsmouth to Scapa Flow to join the Iron...

The day my Grandad died

The Captain of the Graf Spee Hans Langsdorff ordered the crew of the Doric Star to vacate the ship before...

The Voyage Home

My mother was employed as a deep sea stewardess by the Anchor Line Shipping Company and regularly sailed...

SINKING SHIPS IN BURMA 1942

After the fall of Rangoon in the early part of the March 1942 the main objective of the multi-national...

Uncle Tom's War

My mother's younger brotherjoined the Merchant Navy early in the War years by declaring himself to be...

A trip to New York

There was a United Services Organisation in New York where you could book all night parties, the cinemas...

Service on HMS Taku

The Lincolnshire town of Spalding collected £3,560 during Warships Week in 1942 and bought HMS Taku...

Memories of an ASDIC operator

When Mum also passed away, we learnt many interesting things about my Dad's life in the Navy,...

Japanese Surrender and Point Duty

We were lining and guarding the Municipal Building where Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the surrender of...

A Lucky Escape

After training I proceeded to Porstmouth barracks where I was told that I would be joining the Australian...

Corrales

The Corrales was a sister ship to the S.S. Tetela, which had been Geoffrey's first ship. Geoffrey had a...

Merchant Navy Sea Fair experience 1941 —1946

Below are eight short summaries of experiences serving for the Merchant Sea Navy for which I have paperwork...

Wartime memory of 17 year old

We loaded Armements in one of the London Docks and when we were loaded we sailed to France arriving off the...

THE SCHARNHORST AND AFTER

We sailed to Burma, and we were in Tokyo when they signed the peace on a US ship in the harbour... We...

Lost Hero

Bertie was a Leading Seaman on board HMS Eagle, which was sunk in the Mediterranean on 11th August 1942,...

First trip apprentice

Lost Hero

Bertie was a Leading Seaman on board HMS Eagle, which was sunk in the Mediterranean on 11th August 1942,...

Pembroke Dock 1943 " I am on fire"

Having tied up alongside the Control Pinnace, I was standing by the Control Officer when he received a call...

Irish veteran of the Convoys and D-Day

The Atlantic Star, the France and Germany Clasp....

A Fateful Night In 1943

Just as I was dozing off there was a huge bang, so we rushed up on to the deck to see what...

The Japanese Surrender and the Forgotten Fleet

By 1945 I was 20 years old, and sailing with the British Pacific Fleet on the Battleship HMS King George V....

A schoolboy, then joining the Merchant Navy