Pacific Ocean

War Diary of John Dolphin OCT 1943 - MAR 1945 on HMS QUEENBOROUGH

We now join up with the 4th Destroyer Flotilla in Harbour, after 2 days rest up we all 8 Fleet Destroyers...

War Diary of John Dolphin April 1945 - April 1946 on HMS QUEENBOROUGH

The ‘HEAVIES were right in there Bombarding Jap Airfields on “FORMOSA” while 8 Destroyers...

FEPOW - the Story of William Nicholls

Drafted to HMS Dragonfly, a Yangtze river Gunboat, in which I served until April 27th 1941 when I was...

Russian and Malta Convoy Part 2

In May 1941, HMS Nigeria escorted the 'pride of the Navy' - HMS HOOD - out of Scapa Flow into the...

Diary of A Young Sailor

He grew up on Farragut Road in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Baptist housewife, Edna Pickarvey, and an...

'Yorkie's' War onboard HMS Indefatigable

When pushed to talk, mostly by his grandchildren who often said things like 'Granddad what did you do...

Ozzie Osgood's Wartime Memories

By the age of 14 (1942), I was working at Weymann's Motor Bodies at Addlestone, Surrey, later moving to...

A Naval Pilot

Some months later, back in the U.K. the Squadron was detailed to carry out its first deck landings on an...

HMS Formidable

Then the two Flight Directional officers would then talk to the pilots - who were already airborne - and...

Our Dad's War

Also the crews were not allowed to go ashore in Archangel and Murmansk.Whilst helping to moor the Suffolk...

A Russian Reindeer for King George VI

One of the odd things that we had to do was to transport a large reindeer which was a gift from the...

U.S. Navy SeaBees 64th Construction Battalion

The 64th SeaBee Battalion arrived in the Phillipine's a total wreck and things weren't about to get...

From Farmer to Submariner

Jim then volunteered for submarines and transferred to Plymouth to join HMS Shalamar. This sub was then...

War Stories from the Battleship HMS Howe

From Sydney we went to Manas. My role on the Howe was as a stoker which was an important but low down...

The Tracker in USA

The Tracker left the home port in 1944 and sailed for New York where we spent Christmas until the New Year...

VE Day in the Far East

I was a Radio Mechanic in 1834 Squadron, R.N.A.S. on board HMS Victorious, operating as part of the US...

Eastern Fleet 1943 - 45 HMS Kenya

Soon after Christmas 1942, I was drafted to HMS Kenya, a Fiji Class Cruiser, and joined her at Scapa Flow....

My Grandads Experiences

My granddad died when I was a baby so if the details to my story are a little vague in places this...

Royal Navy helped out US. Navy in 1942/3

The US Navy had lost 4 of it`s aircraft carriers and only had the SARATOGA based in Noumea.On the...

Safe

If it wasnt for my grandads friend bertty i won't be here and won't be telling u this story. you...

Test the Guns!

HMS Ceylon was being used as an ack-ack cruiser to escort other ships in convoy. On her return voyage, not...

Not so Kamikaze

During one spell in the Pacific our ship, the light cruiser 'Argonaut' was at the rear of the Fleet...

Spare A Thought For Us!

Spare A Thought For Us! whilst you were celebrating VE day my ship mates and I were still at war in the...

HMS SPEAKER / USS DELGADO

It is to a book that my father who served in HMS Speaker gave me and is a very interesting and realistic...