Object Details
- Category
- Private papers
- Related period
- Second World War (content)
- Creator
- Holland-Martin, 'Deric' Douglas Eric
- Production date
- 1943
- Dimensions
Box: Weight 1.1 kg
- Catalogue number
- Documents.14074
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Associated items
- Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin, GCB, DSO, DSC. Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Imperial War Museum, 1966 - 1977
- MALTA THANKS THE ROYAL NAVY: FOOD CONVOY BROUGHT IN WITHOUT LOSS. MALTA'S FOOD POSITION WAS ACUTE FOLLOWING A THREE MONTH'S SIEGE. A CONVOY ARRIVED IN THE HARBOUR CARRYING A LARGE QUANTITY OF PROVISIONS, AVIATION SPIRIT, AND AMMUNITION. THIS CONVOY WAS ESCORTED BY A NAVAL FORCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF REAR ADMIRAL A J POWER. ADMIRAL POWER BROUGHT IN THE CONVOY WITHOUT LOSS OR DAMAGE TO THE MERCHANT SHIPS, THE FIRST OCCASION ON WHICH THIS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.
- DESTROYER COMMANDING OFFICER. 12 APRIL 1943, MALTA.
- HMS EAGLE IN MEDITERRANEAN. 23 MARCH 1954, ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS EAGLE, IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN, SERVING WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
- SEA LORDS AND NAVAL COMMANDERS IN CHIEF ON BOARD NELSON'S VICTORY. 18 NOVEMBER 1959, ON BOARD HMS VICTORY AT PORTSMOUTH.
- SUBMARINE ESCAPE TRIALS, 260 FEET DOWN IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. OCTOBER 1962, ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE ESCAPE TRIALS IN HM SUBMARINE TIPTOE AT A DEPTH OF 260 FEET. THE TRIALS TEAM WAS LED BY LIEUT CDR L D HAMLYN, RN, AND INCLUDED A ROYAL NAVAL SURGEON LIEUTENANT AND SIX SENIOR RATINGS, ALL WITH CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE OF FREE-ASCENT UNDERWATER. THEY CARRIED OUT A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ESCAPES EMPLOYING THE BRITISH BUOYANT ASCENT METHOD AND THE NEW "HOOD" WHICH ENABLES THE ESCAPER TO BREATHE "TRAPPED" AIR DURING PASSAGE TO THE SURFACE.
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