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Dutch Navy at Ennis House, Mylor.

There were many representatives of foreign forces in Falmouth during the war, mainly naval personnel and...

Do not fire form the hip

I was serving on the River Class Frigate HMS Spey in November 1942, under the command of H G Boys-Smith. We...

How I found out about VE day

I joined my first ship in May 1940 and sailed on a Whaling Factory ship a cargo ship, and two Anglo Saxon...

Naval Terms

And since we've joined the W.R.N.S we find It's no good being haughty For Naval terms are nautical...

German Invasion of the Low CountriesRN action NorthSea 1940

We are steaming steady at 16 knts keeping station with Princess Victoria astern and Esk and Intrepid on...

The Cold

I think it is this cold that we remember most: either the damp misery of the bulkheads running with...

Naval postings

I was doing my naval training when I was sent to work as a firewatcher at the Royal Navy Maternity Hospital...

This and That

My 'Action Station' when I was on duty was on the bridge standing next to a TBS, which was a radio...

Caught Unawares in the Atlantic

The U Boat captain on reaching the top proclaimed in perfect English that 鈥渨e had caught him...

Loch Killin

The story of the 鈥滾och Killin鈥�, supported by 鈥淲ren鈥�, describing how a U-boat she...

German Assault on Holland

We are steaming steady at 16 knts keeping station with Princess Victoria astern and Esk and Intrepid on...

Royal Navy, Submarine service

I completed training at Malvern and was drafted to Portsmouth for the Submarine Service... When I was in...

Ship Stories

In 1943 I was on HMS Savage a G20 Destroyer, D Command, when we crossed paths with the German battleship...

That dreaded Telegram

As many other women must have done, my aunt Leana, nearly passed out when she saw the Telegram boy opening...

Scottish man's tragedy during the D-Day landings

When the war ended we landed at Brunsbuttle Coog and it was there that we celebrated the end of the war....

follow up of The Boy and the Kitten

After writing my story 鈥楾he Boy and the Kitten鈥� a pen friend of mine who enjoys checking out...

My Grandma Sees a Ghost

My father's half brother, Ron was a Royal Naval gun crew able seaman on the HMS Prince of Wales when it...

How Alf Burtman served in the Merchant Navy & the Army

Some of the ships were requistioned and transformed into auxillary cruisers under a T124 agreement where...

Trying to get home from the East

Mountbatten was in charge of the South East Asian Command in Hong Kong, uncle of Prince Philip who was...

Serving on Aircraft Carriers

I was serving on aircraft carriers through the Pacific and Atlantic for 8 - 9 months. One memory that...

DEATH BY MISADVENTURE

A few days鈥� later, the Pinguin herself was sunk by the cruiser HMS Cornwall, responding to distress...

A1104788 - My Father, a map and D Day

My late father was CPO Telegraphist stationed onboard HMS PLUCKY, one of a group of minesweepers that...

Misplaced account

- You could quite well have been directed to go as a passenger to the United States or Canada to crew a...

The Williams at War

Margaret Williams, as a Fleet Street reporter on the Sunday Dispatch, went to Berlin in 1946 with t he...

Terry Bromley Experience of War.

Terry joined the Navy when he was 18 and was sent to HMS Raleigh at Tor Point in Cornwall. Terry also met...

Amy Johnson

I joined the Royal Navy on September 3rd 1940,one year to the day of the declaration of war.My first ship...