On returning to Scotland and Inveraray in particular, I was again accommodated on the Southland with the...
Eight Landing ships anchored at Cowes now. 1200, Left Cowes and anchored off Yarmouth with Prince David,...
The operation was planned to provide information for future operations, enemy preparedness and to relieve...
Following my leave I returned to duty and was sent to Greenock where I was first kitted out and then joined...
We had done quite a few operations of the z-z-s type for convoy protection in the North Sea and by this...
Later, that morning we were to lay off Omaha beach to assist the Americans who were having trouble getting...
9th, we are well on our way now to our second port of call, which may be Cape Town , if we...
A bombardment of our beach by Battleships Warspite and Ramelles, Five Cruisers and a number of Destroyers,...
Quite a number of arab workmen were completing a conversion of Hopper to Sweeper, and the black smoke was...
I was rudely awakened from my meditative state by a blast from the Tannoy, "M.S.R. 6 MUSTER IN THE...
Together with others we would travel to Waterloo Station and from there cross London to Euston and catch a...
HMS Phoebe, along with ships of the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, was involved in the evacuation of Greek...
There was a real feeling of Internationalism among the armed forces during World War II, I recall the time...
Although neither Grandma, Uncle Charlie or Dad were aware of this story, Uncle Charlie remembers the device...
In our hut we were talking about naval discipline and an old three badge killick told us that according to...
The Nelson, and, I think the Rodney battle-ships, Victorious, Indomitable, Indefatigable Eagle, and Furies...
My elder brother got married to the girl he had been courting for a few years... I learned that Eileen and...
Whenever we left harbour there was a pipe over the Tannoy followed by an instruction "Close all X and Y...
Leaving there and feeling fit and happy with the navy, so far our next camp where our stoker training was...
At sea I was one of the watch-keeping officers, on duty for four hour stretches on the bridge, seeing that...
HMS Partridge had taken the Bedouin and her crew in tow. Apart from that Christmas didn't exist on the...
It was with a feeling of great relief, when on the 5th of November, we boarded HMS ‘Thruster’ a...