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The Sinking of the Neptune

My father's cousin Harry Ward from Pudsey, West Yorkshire was an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class when...

The Battle with the Scharnhorst and My WW2 Career.

Our job was to sail to Iceland and wait for the convoys coming, mainly from Britain, taking food to Russia...

Living near the Cyde WW2

We had a lighthouse at Ganntox and there was a boom across from Ganntox to the Cloch lighthouse. On a hill...

Depth Charge Fishing

I was posted to what was known as a Destroyer, 908 tones, we spent most of our time out in the...

Evacuated to Australia

We went by Liverpool on the MS Victoria, the Virginia America Line, a ship which had been converted to...

Evacuated to Australia

We went by Liverpool on the MS Victoria, the Virginia America Line, a ship which had been converted to...

RN in the Far East

We were escorting from Singapore to Batavia, that's the Dutch East Indies then. The most memorable...

Churchill and family returnng from Canada and on to Alexandria in the Renown

The train pulled in at the station, alongside the pier, and out stepped Winston Churchill, Mrs Churchill,...

How the DSM was won by SPO William G. Barnett

The shells burst onto the Unison's bridge; the First officer, Lt Commander King RNR died the following...

In the Navy and Still Can't Swim

I was posted to what was known as a destroyer, 908 tones, we spent most of our time out in the...

H.M.S.ACASTA

On the 8th June 1940 the Destroyers Acasta and Ardent were detailed to escort the Aircraft Carrier H.M.S....

On the Briny

When Japan surrendered the Belfast was heading for the East and ferried many survivors of Japanese P.O.W.,...

'My Memories on the Georgic' by Allan Thipthorpe

After leaving No 1 Amphibious Training Corps near Barmouth, Wales in 1945, we were sleeping in a church...

On Board HMS Rodney

It bounced its way down the steel gangway to the deck below tearing off its nose cap and exposing a...

The SS Grodno - one more trip 1939

My last day ashore My first ship — M. V. Wim Jumping ship then the Ocean Volga Convoy preparations A...

Arthur Owen Davies

I eventually arrived in the R.N H Stonehouse Plymouth where I went into training as a Sick Berth Attendant...

Escorting Churchill

In 1944 I was a crew member on HMS Matchless, a destroyer usually occupied with merchant ship convoys in...

Last Voyage of H.M.S Charybdis

I lived in my parents’ house near St Judes Church in Plymouth and have many memories of the war...

Albert Haslam's Story

On my eighteenth birthday I was called up and sent to HMS Raleigh, Plymouth for 10 weeks’ training as...

The Jewel of Australia

I arrived in Brisbane, Australia unassigned and after a week there, I was assigned as personnel officer of...

A Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy

I was in a lifeboat with 10 other people we had an engine and we pointed the boat towards America... We...

Transport to Africa

We arrived in Glasgow and boarded the "Esperance Bay". This was a cargo liner that had been taken...

D-Day 1

Life on Board

A member of the Fleet Air arm in Aircraft Maintenance we'd fly in and then we'd have 2 days of it....

A sooty adventure

Carthage was being being sent to India and the three dockyard families on board were to go to Singapore...

Minesweeping From Portsmouth to Derry

So then i was sent to Chatham as a rookie to learn seamanship. anyway, at the end of the 9 weeks training...