Stories categorised in 'North Atlantic and Arctic'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
There was one period – I think during the journey from Trincomalee to Sydney – when we took on...
LADY LUCK Part Three Boxing Day, 26th December 1943, we were up in north Russia at the north cape, we were...
My father, a member of the Economics Faculty of Cambridge University, had recently written a book entitled...
The C.O. held a full battalion parade and explained that the War Office had been most impressed with our...
It subsequently transpired that the U-Boat we had sunk was U100, captained by a Lieut.Capt.Schwepke, a...
On the evening of the next day Harrier had just completed re-fuelling from a tanker in the Kola Inlet, when...
The voyage from the UK to Iceland had been this officer's first taste of the sea, and apparently...
The U-boat was intercepted and boarded by HMCS Niagara and HMS Burwell, HMS Wastwater assisted with other...
As the aircraft hit the sea, George was thrown forward between the pilots seats, there was a heavy inrush...
The Aircraft Carrier releases some Hurricane's and they speed away to intercept the Germans but...
It was on a run from Takoradi in West Africa to Liverpool with a cargo of palm oil, groundnuts and mahogany...
About halfway between Halifax and Iceland we received orders to scatter the convoy as the German battleship...
In the end, we were the last convoy to leave Norway and, very luckily for us, were twenty four hours behind...
I arrived as ordered and found my office and quarters were on the HMS 'Dunluce Castle', which was...
Over the years he regaled me with his stories, he let me into his rollicking world of illiterate trawler...
Alfred Longbottom of Halifax in West Yorkshire spent the Second World War years in the Royal Navy and three...
Merchant Navy 'Pools' were established at all the main ports and all shipping was controlled by the...
When the time came, when I was sixteen, I joined the Royal Navy as a boy, training for boys in the Royal...
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...
Assailed by a Navigating Officer whose mishaps would have ruined the insurance company for which he worked...
We were soon fully occupied in our duties as novice stokers, as the Bulldog was an escort for Merchant...
We sailed one night from Scapa, the Commander in Chief flying his flag in the Battleship H.M.S. Duke of...
After doing a three year stint in the Mediterranean Sea on the ships HMS Griffin destroyer, HMS Flamingo a...
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...
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