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HMS Forte 1, 2, 3, 4.

The Navy took over Falmouth as is the practise with the Navy when they establish a naval base and they gave...

848 Malaya

In 1952, 848 Squadron sailed for the Far East again, this time as the Navy's First Operational...

HMS Warwick

Some forty years after this William Spear had the idea to set up a reunion for any survivours by...

Navy's hairdresser

After about 12 months I was drafted to a Butlins Camp that the Navy had taken over, and it was near...

Dad's claim to fame and a rocky journey across the Atlantic (D.M.)

He went to New York for Merchant Ships to be loaded for the return journey to Britain... He went to the...

Action against the Bismark

We were attacked by aircraft in Scarpoflow, and hit by bombs, which fell in the officers’ quarters....

My Years in the WRNS

I joined the Wrens early in 1939 before war was declared and was posted to HMS Cochrane at Rosyth as a...

The Man who Torpedoed the Scharnhorst

No one would believe his claim that a torpedo he had fired had actually damaged the Scharnhorst and I...

HMS Skipjack

George Hines was an Able Seaman on board the HMS Skipjack Minesweeper when it was sunk on 1st June 1940. He...

The first shot fired… in North Africa

My Uncle Putt was on the American battleship, USS Massachusetts BA59, otherwise known as ‘Big...

A Nurse in the Merchant Navy Bringing Back POWs from Japan

"Vigorous" Malta Convoy

The Samstrule

I along with one officer, two NCOs and ten other airmen were on board the Samstrule... Shortly after we...

The Tramp & The Lady

After serving in the Auxiliary Fire Service in the Blitz of London I then volunteered for the Royal Navy in...

U-570

He recalls a lot of people lining Walney Channel to watch a captured German U-boat being towed into Barrow...

A close shave(D.M.)

Dad's Navy days were always filled with incidents especially like the time he got torpedoed in the...

Alf O’Neil-My Time In The Royal Navy (between England, Greece and Germany).

Alf joined the Navy primarily because he was interested in travelling to America, as his brother had been...

Shipwrecked

Another account of my memories of WW2 is my shipwreck episode on the Charles H Salter, which was a Canadian...

On board the T.S.S. Tamaroa - sunk with no survivors in early 1941.

We sailed to the mouth of the Clyde where the convoy was formed and off we went, almost to America then...

Life in the WRNS

On the pier at Gourock, Scotland, we dealt with the Merchant Navy and all the Battleships, Destroyers and...

War in Hull

At one time we had a captured French Destroyer called the Leopard in for conversion. Someone in the free...

Lifeboat duties

We were in company with ‘four Woolworth aircraft carriers – converted merchant ship with a...

Saving the Sub

I remember one time we were sitting on the bottom of the sea just outside a French port. We were lying on...

Flying and Landing

Each convoy would take about a week, so when the fine weather arrived in 1944 we finally began training to...

V.J. DAY THE ENDING OF WW2

We took them to Columbo in Ceylon, where a Dutch liner, waited to take them to Holland... The Royal Marines...

WWII Minesweeping

Majority were fishermen pre-war They knew the cruel sea Called up to crew these little ships For some -...