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During the war I was working has an apprentice at Brigham & Cowans Ship Repairs.
We had a Destroyer called the Express come in with all the foward end blown away from the Bridge to the bow.

The Dead where still aboard it when it was towed in.
Volenteers went aboard and extecated the dead sailors from the wreakage.

When the Job it was recommisioned has the Corncrake and joined the Canadian navy.

One after another we where installing Submarine Detection gear called Asdic. it was on the Secret list. A policeman was on Duty in the Drydock on the work site. to keep unortherized people away.

We allso Built a Midgit Submarine in our Fitting Shop.

We worked on the Biggest Destroyer in the world called the Lepeord A free French destroyer. when it was finished General Degaule inspected it.

Later the crew mutinied in the Medeterainian sea.

The Duke of Kent visited the Shipyard and was killed in an aircrash soon afterwards.
I was walking down The King Georged dock. When Winston Churchill passed me by Sat in the back of an open topped car smoking one of his cigars. No smoking was allowed on the Docks.

He had been to give the dockers a pep talk they had been causing a bit of bother at the time.

I watched the building of two Mulberry Harbour Blocks made of concretete in the dry docks,We had no idea what they were for at the time.

Thats all for now.

Mr.Arnold Drury.

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