Merchant Navy

Mixed Cargoes

We were the sheep to the Royal Navy's sheepdogs... Any theatre of war, the Merchant Navy were there...

My Fathers Story: Onboard the Lancastria

My father and his brother were both serving on the Lancastria and after taking survivors on board were...

My Father was a Stranger: Merchant Navy POW

Unlike the Royal Navy and Army, whose wives received pay during their captivity, merchant seamen were...

SS Levenwood at Dunkirk

The Scots captain William Oswald Young drove Levenwood as far toward the beach as he could, treading water...

VE Day docking, HMS Northway

I was on a landing ship, HMS Northway and on VE Day itself we ferried over 47 DUCKS on the landing ship...

Where's me Mam?

My Dad had been at sea for 12 months without returning home but at last, his ship pulled into Liverpool and...

MY UNCLE'S ARCTIC CONVOY DUTY.

HER MISSION WAS TO SAIL ON THE ARCTIC CONVOY DUTIES WITH THE 6TH DESTROYER FLOTILLO, ON 10 DECEMBER 1944...

14 Days on a Raft

My dad, Fred White, was in the maritime - half sailor, half soldier. Dad is resident at Austin House...

Convoy ONS 154 - Wartime Merchant Navy

My Grandfather was in the Merchant Navy and his ship, the SS Melmore Head left England on December 19th...

An Accident Aboard a MAC ship 1944

My father was a Senior Engineer on a Merchant Aircraft Carrier escorting convoys to and from the UK to...

My Grandfather's Years in the Merchant Navy

My Grandfather, Wilfred William Halliday, joined the Merchant Navy in 1912 as a Junior Officer. In 1943...

He Just Wanted to do His Bit

But when a friend who was now commanding HMS Saucy, a requisitioned tug stationed in Scotland, asked him to...

Normandy Rose: Onboard the SS Julia off Omaha Beach

The Belgian merchant navy were never recognized for their sacrifice and he always said the rose was his...

Merchant Seamen

The public did not understand what happened to the merchant seamen ;during the war ,when there ship was...

The Evacuation Effort: SS Lorina at Dunkirk 1940

I have just finished watching the BBC's series about Dunkirk, and would like to mention what happened...

A Wonderful Headmaster in Wiltshire, and a Brother Lost at Sea

We were going out of school at morning playtime and our Headmaster called my brother and I over and said...

S.S. Anglo-Saxon: Two Survived

Tons ANGLO-SAXON was attacked and sunk by the German surface raider WIDDER in mid-Atlantic in position 26N...

What's The Merchant Navy?

What's The Merchant Navy. They explained that they were going to sign on with the Merchant Navy....

Waste not want not: A letter written on toilet paper

My Grandfather was in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War... He concluded the letter by saying...

My Father, Barry Lotin: A Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy

My father, barry Lotin was a radio officer with the merchant navy during the war, but was employed by...

Merchant Service in WW2

My father was in the merchant navy most of his working life and served on troup carriers during the second...

Father's Tales of the Merchant Navy

One thing that still upsets me is that in the merchant navy, if your ship got sunk, your pay got stopped,...

The Day the Merchant Navy Were Recognised

We now have September 3rd as Merchant Navy Day... At all times the Merchant Navy was in the frontline from...

Grandad Coward's WW2 Story: In the Merchant Navy

He served in the Merchant Navy as the head radio officer. The Merchant Navy's job was to send and...

Grandad: Service in the Merchant Navy

My grandfather survived and returned home after the war and was a poor husband and dad. I think this story...

Captain John Adams Merchant Navy

Captain John Adams in Merchant Navy recently deceased... Margaret Adams nurse at Paulton Hospital then BRI...