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Exploding Bluebell Tin
Submitted by Tom Taylor.
I don't know on what ship the event occurred, but one of the crew had bought a new camera and wanted to test the accuracy and focal range of the lens. He took his camera up to the bridge and around the bridge were several HF Whip aerials. At the bottom of each aerial attached to the coaming of the bridge was a wire-mesh guard with a hazard warning notice of high RF.
A Very powerful Torpedo
this was passed on by the Submarine Association in Derby, via Carl.
It is most certainly worth watching!
Europe: It’s All Over - by Vic Chanter
VE Day had come and gone on the 8th May 1945 and I had entered married life on the 25th of May; all was well with the world!
From my sheltered life with the Communication Branch at RE Barracks at Brompton, Gillingham, I was drafted as Yeoman of Signals (?) to a Hunt Class destroyer, HMS Calpe, standing at Chatham. My new wife and I found digs at nearby Gillingham.
THE THREE CONVOYS - by Vic Chanter
To Tripoli
It was now January 1943 and time, I thought, to catch up with my last three months pay, as I returned to the shore base at Alexandria.
Don’t lament for modern “Jack” – by a Serving Commanding Officer
Submitted by Carl Beeson.
The Bosun’s Call still pipes “The Still”,
“The Side” and “Call the hands” so clear and trill,
Daily Orders by keyboard – now typed and “disted”
And to read on notice boards yet still listed
The Chevy and the Whaler alas superseded
Their role (and beauty) no longer needed.
For Boarding Ops two RIBs for pace,
1944 - Light Entertainment
Submitted by Vic Chanter.
After the destroyer HMS Kingsmill had completed her invasion duties at Gold Beach during Operation Overlord, we returned to Southampton and I, who had been seconded to her with shore to ship ‘communication facilities’ but had never landed, was returned to HMS Pembroke, Chatham.
You Shouldn't Join If You Can't Take a Joke
Submitted by Vic Chanter
You Shouldn't Join If You Can't Take a Joke
By Ken Kent
'Ampshire Boy
Now late into his retirement, A RNCA member has decided to start a new career as an author. 'Ampshire Boy was published in July 2007; and his next book is likely to be published later this year, with a third possibly coming along next year.
A Week in Belgium
Taken from 'WW2 Peoples War, An archive of World War II memories'
With permission of the author, Vic Chanter
From Chatham to Dunkirk
The Dolphin Code
DOLPHIN CODE
The unofficial code used between submarines and surface ships engaged in exercises.