Pacific Ocean

Another Door Part 2: Our Journey to Disaster

The old man poked his head round the radio room door and indicated that I should leave my post and give a...

Another Door Part 1: War in the Far East

So, it was with a sigh of relief that we eventually set sail on December 16th, and much to Captain...

HMS Euryalus — An Engineer's Reminiscences

Nobody had yet told us where we were going, but as we cleared the harbour, Captain Oliver Bellasis informed...

HMS Euryalus — An Engineer's Reminiscences

Hong Kong - Lisbon Maru Sinking/3

Speaking Shanghai dialect, he was able to explain to the villagers that the swimmers bobbing about in the...

HMS Terrapin's Final War Patrol

Terrapin left Fremantle for what proved to be her final war patrol on 20 April 1945 and passed northward...

Devon Family Saved by a U-Boat (Part 2)

And actually aboard the German submarine all I can remember was the bar of chocolate given to me by the...

Devon Family Saved by a U-Boat (Part 1)

TORPEDO The family had been reunited at Durban in South Africa, after nightmare months of separation during...

H.M.S.Victorious, A Sailor's Diary

Arrived at Greenock on September 29th.New orders to proceed to Liverpool... March 8th leave Liverpool for...

My WW2 Service in the Merchant Navy

Merchant Navy 'Pools' were established at all the main ports and all shipping was controlled by the...

Onboard HMS Euryalus

From the fire brigade dealing with German bombs and the Battle of Britain to the North Sea and then to the...

Devon Family Saved by a U-Boat (Part 3)

What Mrs. STONEMAN didn't know was that an American bomber had attacked the U-507's sister ship...

Troopship #4

After we left some rough seas in the ATLANTIC with many girls experiencing becoming sea sick, we landed in...

GUARDIAN ANGEL: Royal Navy

1943/4 HMS Vega East Coast Convoys, qualified as Petty Officer AA2 Whale Island. Took passage to Colombo on...

A Penguin in the Pacific

During the Second World War each night at sea in the Royal Navy the practice was for the Officer of the Day...

RMS Niagara

When we got on to diving the Niagara the film crew could not come with us, so Dave was given a video...

From Hanky Park to the Sea.

There was a real feeling of Internationalism among the armed forces during World War II, I recall the time...

All At Sea

Whenever we left harbour there was a pipe over the Tannoy followed by an instruction "Close all X and Y...

A Child's War -Part 1

Three days before the end of the war, we learnt of the Atom Bomb and wrapped ourselves in our US army great...

A Child's War -Part 4

He had very good treatment on the raider by the naval surgeon, and this continued on the Regensburg, and...

A Child's War -Part 18

For all of us from the “Nankin” and from the camp in Fukushima it was also a time to thank the...

In At The Birth...........In At The Death

Bill Moss is my half brother and he served as a Stoker on HMS The Prince of Wales, the last battleship to...

A Child's War -Part 2

The cargo well decks and hatches were permanently awash with green water sliding over them, and even the...

A Child's War -Part 17

Here were the task forces that had crushed the pride of Japan's great Navy from Midway to the Coral...

A Child's War -Part 3

Nearly all were wearing a vest emblazoned in dark blue with the German eagle above a swastika in a circle,...

HMS King George V - My Experiences

I was born in Worcester, the second child, but eldest son of James Hancox and Ada Florence Hancox. I was...