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Collision on the high seas

Our boat was called the Warwick Castle and we were part of a massive convoy. Later an armed merchant boat...

Wartime Reminiscences

Then I was drafted to HMS Rosemary, a coal ship on the Atlantic... I was given the Burma Star, the Victory...

Scottish Wren signals

I joined the Wrens in 1942. At the interview they asked me about the organisations I had been in - I said...

The D.IY Iron Lung

A group of Royal Navy personnel constructed a temporary iron lung to keep a young army officer alive until...

Rat in the hammock

WAITING IN THE BAR FOR THE WAR TO END

Those who for the second time, saw it begin and charting the future watched death crawling; like a lizard...

The history of the sinking of HMT Anselm

The padre on HMT Anselm, Squadron Leader Pugh, lost his life trying to save some of the wounded....

HMS Indomitable Crippled - Photo No.3

In his story 鈥淚n the Main, Here and There鈥�, Dugg Wakefield wrote about his ship HMS Phoebe and...

The Admiral's Safe

At the time of the Normandy invasion I was drafted to the Chatham dockyard and worked in the Confidential...

HMS Hood Lost

HMS Hood current flag ship of the royal navy and the largest ship in her majesteys royal navy had already...

Jeffrey Dawson and friends

I left the Isle of Man in 1940 for Skegness to train for the gunnery for about 4 weeks - we then...

Wartime Ship repairs in Greenock

John Hamilton and his friend George both worked in the Greenock Dockyard Co., specifically at the Garvel...

Empire Morn Stranded in Murmansk

When we arrived at Murmansk, german ships blocked our exit... The Graf Spey / Sharnforce prevented us from...

Worse things happen at sea

The Artic winter produced a Force 10 gale, when my ship, HMS Anson, sailed from Akureyri in Northern...

HMS Hartland

I was in the Navy on HMS Hartland at the age of 19 and after six weeks at sea recall being involved...

No Food Or Water On Board For Three and A Half Days

They were three and a half days in the life boat without food or water, six hundred miles from Ascension...

Clifford Battersby and the sinking of HMS Hood

My great uncle, Clifford Battersby was an Able Seamanon board HMS Hood on the day it was sunk by the...

The Far East on HMS Anson

He lived in Swansea which was of course heavily bombed during the second world war. The boat went through...

The Eye

I remember my father telling me about the times he was on call at the submarine depot in Valletta in...

Joining The Navy

Then I joined HMS Rother at South Bank Middlesborough, which was the first ever built river class frigate....

HMS Indomitable Crippled - Photo No.2

In his story 鈥淚n the Main, Here and There鈥�, Dugg Wakefield wrote about his ship HMS Phoebe and...

the worse day of my life

the worse day of my life...

Ganges service

I am an ex Ganges boy, who now helps out as a trustee at the Ganges Museum which is situated where the...

Battle at Oran

He told me that the biggest battle he ever saw was when the British navy destroyed the French fleet...

The Empire Attendant

Our dad, Charlie Needham, was a gunner assigned to a convoy of Merchant Navy freighters... The damaged...

Able Seaman Ernest Booth

My Dad, Ernest Booth, was born in Sawley, Long Eaton, Derbyshire in 1910. Dad always said that he wanted to...