North Atlantic and Arctic

The Quiet Man

One of his medals is the Atlantic Star... I don't think he was at the D-Day landings, but his medals...

Atlantic Crossing

We had with us Mrs Helen Hebbs whose husband was a business associate of my father's... When were were...

My service in the Royal Navy by Philip Burgess

HMS Eagle", an aircraft carrier sunk, "HMS Manchester" sunk, "The Indomitable" an...

Fire and Water

Some of us were selected to be trained as crew for D.E.M.S.. There were many merchant ships at that time...

Alone and Torpedoed

The Indian seamen were put on the ship after having been shipwrecked on another ‘Clan’ ship...

It's over!

The following year we came to Britain, and my first recollection was of standing outside Ilford station,...

Mine Laying/Sweeping

This is a story about my father who is sadly no longer with us,and to this day I miss so much,he was...

Two Unforgettable Days in My Life

Serving in the Southern Pride, based at Freetown West Africa escorting ships to ports Lagos, Takoradi etc,...

Russian Convoy Incident

What had happened was that an aircraft had come in to land and had crashed into the end of the flight deck....

Enemy Action on Merchant Ships

My Uncle Edward, now sadly deceased, was an Officer in the Merchant Navy and served on merchant ships...

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

I then served in two cargo ships and three free Norwegian tankers during the war, being torpedoed by U302...

The cold weather at sea

The weather was absolutely freezing but we still had to go up and down the mast....

Crossing the North Atlantic in wartime on the Rossington Court

My father was a Merchant Navy captain, in command of Rossington Court. The convoy had a non-Merchant Navy...

HM Rescue Tugs by John Topping

John Topping, now aged 76 voluntarily joined the Merchant Navy in 1943, aged 16, as an apprentice... John...

Charlie's Demise

My late father in law Bill Wood was aboard the destroyer HMS Bleasdale which had many various roles during...

America and HMS Pylades

After various experiences in the Royal Navy minesweeping I was sent to Liverpool to board the Mauretania...

Wartime Bravery Casts a Shadow Over Later Life

Archie was transferred to another minesweeper, The Hambleton... The Hambleton was damaged by a torpedo and...

Wrens At Sea

My Mum, Valerie Mary Headeachjoined the Wrens during the war... Mum was posted to the Isle de France, a...

Weather Forecasting Over the Atlantic

In order to get the data for the forecasts, we had to monitor the weather across the Atlantic....

Sinking of the SS Fiscus 1940

Late 1940, two Welsh Brothers Kenneth James Lewis and Raymond Leslie Lewis walked aboard their first ship,...

North Atlantic Convoy PQ17

During the Second World War, I was on Russian convoy duty in North Atlantic to Murmansk after Russia joined...

I Died for Freedom: Stoker in a Minesweeper on the Russian Convoys

I was a Stoker Petty Officer in a minesweeper on the Russian Convoys....

German Submarine Attacks Oil Refinery in Aruba

And suddenly we had bursts of light from torpedos that came from a German submarine, and we saw the ships...

VE Day at sea

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, on a troopship in convoy, four days out from Greenock, bound for...

A Navy Volunteer

In the course of my navy carreer I meet many famous people; Churchill, Mountbatten, the Admirals Fraser,...

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...