My father Clem Walker was serving on HMS Boreas during the early stages of WW2,the so called phoney war...
My Grandfather, Wilfred William Halliday, joined the Merchant Navy in 1912 as a Junior Officer. In 1943...
STAVANGER In january1944 Ships of the Home Fleet including Bellona and 3 Destroyers attacked and almost...
Perhaps within that dreadful watery tomb, Where each has met an unexpected doom, A prayer was said, To...
One night in 1944 I was in Leigh light Wellington bomber engaged in stopping u-boats sinking shipping...
My father-in-law, a chief electrician with Port Line, was torpedoed twice during the war, in 1940 and 1943,...
In September of 1939, my father Robert Charles Larner, was serving on H.M.S. Foxhound doing anti U-boat...
Mr Belcher was stationed in the frigate HMS Loch Glendhu... My action station was on the gunnery...
The public did not understand what happened to the merchant seamen ;during the war ,when there ship was...
Tons ANGLO-SAXON was attacked and sunk by the German surface raider WIDDER in mid-Atlantic in position 26N...
William's best experience of the war was when the Bismark the famous German battleship was bombed......
My father, barry Lotin was a radio officer with the merchant navy during the war, but was employed by...
One thing that still upsets me is that in the merchant navy, if your ship got sunk, your pay got stopped,...
I left school when I was 14 years old and by the end of 1940 I was training to be a boy...
The ship was HMS Foresight. I know he spent a few hours in the water before being rescued, and was injured...
He was a Rear Admiral called Geordie Leslie. On December 11th 1944 he was aged 24, and in command of HMS...
It happens that my sister and I were evacuated to Canada by the CORB in August 1940... We travelled out on...
In January,1941, as a 15 year old Cadet on his first sea voyage, on an old rust bucket SS Harbury, we had...
He served on a deep-sea trawler and went with the convoy to St John's in Newfoundland. Thomas was...
Our Brother Francis Grove a petty Officer Radio Mechanic was commended for unstinted devotion to duty by...
Petty Officer Bob Pugsley alias ‘Taffy’ joined the Royal Navy in 1939... In 1945 Taffy became a...
Reg Worked on an Aircraft Carrier. On two seperate occasions the Carrier was hit by Kamakarzi Bombers. on...
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