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Object description
Wordprocessor memoir (63pp), written in 1993, covering his service as a Merchant Navy engineer officer on the SS BEN-MY-CHREE, transporting troops to France but including two trips to Dunkirk on 31 May - 1 June to assist in the evacuation (November 1939 - June 1940), on the SS MANXMAN, landing troops at St Malo and later sailing from Cherbourg, under air attack and with remnants of the 51st Division on board, just as the town fell to the Germans (June 1940), on the SS MATADIAN for two trips in convoy to West Africa to load palm oil (spring - summer 1941), on the tanker MV PONTFIELD for the passage of convoy JW51B to North Russia during which the destroyer escort under Captain Sherbrooke in HMS ONSLOW beat off an attack by the German cruiser HIPPER in the Battle of the Barents Sea (December 1942) and his life ashore in North Russia near Murmansk and Archangel for eleven months while the PONTFIELD was repaired after running aground in the Kola inlet (December 1942 - November 1943), his passage in the troopship SS PASTEUR to New York to join the Merchant Navy Reserve Pool (early 1944) and his service as the second engineer on the SS PHOTINIA, a very unhappy ship, sailing between Mobile, Alabama and Trinidad before she returned to the United Kingdom in a slow Atlantic convoy (late summer 1944).
Content description
Wordprocessor memoir (63pp), written in 1993, covering his service as a Merchant Navy engineer officer on the SS BEN-MY-CHREE, transporting troops to France but including two trips to Dunkirk on 31 May - 1 June to assist in the evacuation (November 1939 - June 1940), on the SS MANXMAN, landing troops at St Malo and later sailing from Cherbourg, under air attack and with remnants of the 51st Division on board, just as the town fell to the Germans (June 1940), on the SS MATADIAN for two trips in convoy to West Africa to load palm oil (spring - summer 1941), on the tanker MV PONTFIELD for the passage of convoy JW51B to North Russia during which the destroyer escort under Captain Sherbrooke in HMS ONSLOW beat off an attack by the German cruiser HIPPER in the Battle of the Barents Sea (December 1942) and his life ashore in North Russia near Murmansk and Archangel for eleven months while the PONTFIELD was repaired after running aground in the Kola inlet (December 1942 - November 1943), his passage in the troopship SS PASTEUR to New York to join the Merchant Navy Reserve Pool (early 1944) and his service as the second engineer on the SS PHOTINIA, a very unhappy ship, sailing between Mobile, Alabama and Trinidad before she returned to the United Kingdom in a slow Atlantic convoy (late summer 1944).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1999-02