He served on quite a few ships: Duke, Medina, Daedalus, Merlin, Landrail, Ashbury, Heron. In his collection...
We begun at Devonport on landing craft waiting for the seas to calm down a bit before we set off for...
My brother William Arthur Martin was second officer on the SS UMGENI. The survivors of the Focke-Wulf were...
They were in contact with Ronald Hayter an shipmate of my uncle Valentine on the Ben Nevis and a fellow...
During this visit Georges' uncle, John Maharg, who was only a few years older than himself and serving...
I was known to colleagues as "West Brom". It would be nice to hear from anyone who has stories...
We arrived in Trieste the day after VE day to find ourselves in another war situation, as there was a...
My dad left HMS Snapper on the 30th February 1941 to go on a well earned shore leave he had arranged for...
A few weeks prior to April a German Submarine got into Scapa Flow and sank the Royal Oak with 1300 men...
From the very beginning of the Second World War the Merchant Navy was in the front line of battle. Hence...
On one occasion one of the Japanese said that he'd rather give up Tokyo than give up his sword. The...
After the Japanese surrender Father helped with the rehabilitation of prisoners of war and visited...
I went back again in March, and I got aboard a Lease-Lend American destroyer, with 4 funnels. But on...
We were grounded in Chinese waters, between the Communists and the Nationalists. I missed the Plymouth home...
Using information received through headphones from our radar colleagues, ships were moved and removed from...
Margaret Williams, as a Fleet Street reporter on the Sunday Dispatch, went to Berlin in 1946 with the first...
This brief autobiographical note by Bertie Throld is submitted to the site by a member of Market Harborough...
The British Admiralty agreed to a request by King Faruk of Egypt to visit the Royal Navy in Alexandria. As...
We still keep in touch with the survivors of Rusian, opposite James St rail station every month, and we...
An American Patrol Boat pulled alongside the 'Duke of York' Two lads came on board and spotted...
From the Indian Ocean to England in HMS Nigella, Flower class Corvette K19...
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