North Atlantic and Arctic

A POW's Story: Onboard a U Boat

A POW's Story: Onboard a U Boat...

Mormacsul

In May 1942 I was appointed as Chief Radio Officer - there were only two of us - to the SS Atlantic,...

HMS Niger

I learnt after that he had taken passages on HMS Niger which ran into our own minefield off Iceland and...

Friends of HMS Lapwing

Following an eight-year campaign by Arctic convoy veterans, the British Ministry of Defence last week said...

Leo "The Cat"

Leo keeps a fading photo of the ship that rescued the Zouave crew, the corvette HMS Godetia. RESCUE Ship:...

19 Days Active Service

At 2200 hrs on the 11th August PICOTEE relayed by light signal to the AYRSHIRE an intercepted wireless...

LOSS OF THE SS ROTORUA - 11 Dec 1940

Earlier in the year, the SS Rotorua had originally departed for Australia but had been subject to repeated...

John Alexander MN

John was born in Hull in 1913 off Walcott Street on Hessle Road; he attended Constable Street School and,...

Reminiscences of an Eventful Voyage

The local fishermen saw us and so they came out in their small boats with carafes of water and towed us the...

Battle of the Atlantic

So, JASMINE took off all survivors, which in itself was a great feat of seamanship, and then proceeded to...

On An Oil tanker

There was a powerful lot of lives lost on oil tankers - the uboats were circling to get them especially as...

Life on a Corvette derry, Canada and Liverpool

In Albert Dock in Liverpool, where the Corvettes went....

Three brother evacuees to Canada

It turned out later that the U Boat was captained by Gunther Prien, famous for earlier in the war...

Addition to "My father the hero"

When all of the crew of Weyburn were either in the sea or transferred to Wivern, Weyburn sank very quickly...

The Rosetree & The Eagle (part 5 of 5)

H.M.S. Curacoa, a four-thousand ton anti-aircraft cruiser, approached the Cunarder Queen Mary as the Mary...

Crossing the Atlantic in Wartime on the Rossington Court

My father was a Marchant Army Captain, in command of Rossington Court....

Ice Cold in the North Atlantic

My captain decided to take the ship north to the ice-floes because the u-boats weren't able to operate...

Torpedoed by U. 94

So I went on the boat deck with the Captain and Chief Officer and lowered the port Life Boat before getting...

The sinking of HMS Curacoa

On 2nd October 1942 my father was serving on the British Light Cruiser HMS Curacoa... Suddenly, the Queen...

Empire Wave

Half the sixty man crew perished when she sank. the other half boarded a lifeboat and were lost in the...

Atlantic Convoys

After training I joined the east coast convoys and then went to Liverpool for trips on the North Atlantic...

HMS Snapper

My father served on the submarine HMS Snapper in 1940 and until it went missing in February 1941. During...

lost for 14 days

Jim Adie and crew from the Empire Wave were torpedoed by a u boat on 2/10/1941. Half the crew perished when...

Meeting Norton on Frigate

While I was on a frigate in the Atlantic I met a chap named Norton, who showed me drawings of the...

Oronsay

We travelled out on HMT Oronsay and I still have a little blue copy of the New Testament given to me by...

Lost at Sea

He was on a minesweeper called HMS Maaloy when it was sunk by a German U-Boat, in the Indian Ocean, near...