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War Ship Repairs

We worked on the Biggest Destroyer in the world called the Lepeord A free French destroyer. when it was...

Hurricanes Hardly Ever Happen.

By Ray Tyler During the war I was a Jack Dusty in the Andrew. I normally slept in the afternoons and did...

H.M.S. FORMIDABLE

After the course, I went up to Rosyth in Scotland in early 1943, and joined the battleship HMS George V...

Wren on the rock

My father had to return to Chile where he was in charge of the Missions to Seamen in Valparaiso, but my...

My time at Scapa Flow

We did manouvres before that at Slapton Sands Devon with American Rangers doiing landings , actually this...

Mine Disposal in WW2

I had to go to the Palace to get the medal from the King... I met the King again when he came...

Operation Pedestal

HMS Penn and HMS Branham then towed the Ohio all the way into Malta. Once we got to Malta one of the...

The Ups and Downs of a Wartime Honeymoon

My shipmate, Harry Smith suggested that I write to my fiancée Annie and ask her to marry me there and...

TROOPS SHIPS TO DURBAN

This involved training cadets or new recruits in aircraft recognition, seamanship, radar and ASDIES. In...

‘S³Ù°ù²¹³Ù³ó²¹±ô±ô²¹²Ô’

My father served his apprenticeship as a boilermaker at Ashford Railway Works during WWI before joining the...

Spell Beautiful

People in story: Richard Stanley Bryers Location of story: Liverpool, England Unit name: Home base:...

RN sailors' shore-leave

We were escorting from Singapore to Batavia, that's the Dutch East Indies then. The only thing was, we...

German Spies amongst Polish Naval visitors sabotage British Torpedo Boat at H.M.S.Hornet

German Spies amongst Polish Naval visitors sabotage British Torpedo Boat at H.M.S.Hornet. During this time...

EDWARD FOWLER - FIRE FIGHTER IN BRISTOL

Later a company of Canadian Fire-fighters came to Bristol and were stationed at Stoke House in Stoke Hill...

Life in the Navy for an Irish Lad

I was on a destroyer 3 yrs on the Atlantic convoys. Weather in the N Atlantic was as hard to contended with...

Jock Mair

I remember being sent home from school aged 7 with a project, it was ‘What my parents did in the...

scapa flow

We did manouvres before that at Slapton Sands Devon with American Rangers doiing landings , actually this...

Convoy

0445 Commodore vessel Ariosto torpedoed alongside us sunk in 8 minutes Daylight Ariosto, Carsbreck and...

Scapa flow

We did manouvres before that at Slapton Sands Devon with American Rangers doiing landings , actually this...

Stories from the States

We were transported by train and lodged in two hotels named the Berkley and Monterey, in Asbury Park, New...

Lascaris War Rooms

As one will realise a great many messages had to be sent by Winston Churchill to London... I was fortunate...

D Day Landing and Return Home

We begun at Devonport on landing craft waiting for the seas to calm down a bit before we set off for...

A Naval Christening

On board HMS Probe in Alexandra Dock, the ship in which her father served, the baby daughter of Seaman...

D Day Landing and Return Home

We begun at Devonport on landing craft waiting for the seas to calm down a bit before we set off for...

Tribute from an Ex-P.O.W.

Tribute from an Ex-P.O.W. This being the 60th Anniversary of V.J. , I think would be appropiate to include...

Stories from the States

We were transported by train and lodged in two hotels named the Berkley and Monterey, in Asbury Park, New...