Stories categorised in 'Merchant Navy'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
SS Fort Buckingham crew list Raft No 1, picked up by SS Moreby and landed in Western Australia: Petty...
In August while still in the South Atlantic, a rendezvous with the other operating raider 23 and a further...
When the Russian authorities heard what we were doing, although they had many unexploded bombs to deal with...
To be in the land-lot sea of the Mediterranean was a drastic change from the wide oceans of the Atlantic...
The 'British Sergeant' was assigned to oil supply and storage duties to the Royal Navy in the...
It was on a run from Takoradi in West Africa to Liverpool with a cargo of palm oil, groundnuts and mahogany...
The ship was built by Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon, so it wasn't surprising to...
Among the officers reported missing is Lieutenant Harold Jackson Cholerton RNR of Brighton, navigating...
Merchant Navy 'Pools' were established at all the main ports and all shipping was controlled by the...
At 10.30am the Captain gave the order for all passengers, stewards and firemen to take to the boats, as the...
We met in a lifeboat, in the Barents Sea 120 miles north of Russia, in the winter of 1942, when my ship...
On the 15 September we saw something on the horizon and thought that rescue was near, then it became clear...
While in London, I was trained as a Gunnery Offcier by the Royal Navy. Because the Channel was too tricky,...
The German shells straddled the merchant ship whilst the replies from dad's ship were falling short of...
Contrary to expectations and with all guns manned until nightfall that day, we sailed the length of the...
Stranded in the Belfast black out Within a week of the funeral we set out for Belfast, a journey of over...
After that we called in at Gibraltar and then sailed to New York where we collected a cargo of aircraft and...
As mentioned by Lord Leathers in his letter to Evelyn, those Merchant Seamen who have lost their lives in...
The Arandora Star was on her way to Canada during the second year of the war with 1,560 Italian prisoners...
She married Chief Officer Donald Orr Harvey of the Merchant Navy in 1940, an officer who always took his...
My father was a Merchant Navy officer who was captured and interned by the Japanese at the outbreak of...
My Grandfather's and My Father's War Stories by "David": Service in the Merchant and Royal...
In 1940, my Dad was serving aboard the S/S ANGLO SAXON a vessel taking a cargo of coal from South Wales to...
We anchored close to the battleships Warspiteand Ramillies and were surrounded by cruisers, destroyers and...
Then one evening an officer representing the Royal Navy's entertainment unit went to see one of Uncle...
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