Interview with Donald Perkins

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British seaman served as asdic operator aboard HMS Quantock, Rosyth Escort Force in North Sea, 1940-1941; served aboard HMS Ithuriel, 13th Destroyer Flotilla in Mediterranean, 3/1942-11/1942; officer cadet trained at HMS King Alfred in Hove, GB, 1943; officer served aboard HMS Ballinderry in North Atlantic and Mediterranean, 9/1943-5/1945

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REEL 1 Background in Rushton, GB, 1919-1940: family; education. Aspects of enlistment and asdic training with Royal Navy in GB, 1940: reaction to call up and initial wish to join Fleet Air Arm; drafting to Submarine Detector Course at Campbeltown; use of asdic equipment; qualities and experience needed by asdic operators. Recollections of operations as asdic operator aboard HMS Quantock, Rosyth Escort Force in North Sea, 1940-1941: character of ship; seasickness; relations between Hostilities Only (HO) and regular seaman; character of east coast convoys, including threat of German Navy E-boats. REEL 2 Continues: degree of threat from German Air Force; civilian attitudes ashore; rations; leaving ship and attending Higher Submarine Detection Course at Anti-Submarine School, HMS Osprey, Portland, 1941-1942. Recollections of operations as asdic operator aboard HMS Ithuriel, 13th Destroyer Flotilla in Mediterranean, 3/1942-11/1942: pay for asdic operators; standing by ship during construction at Barrow-in-Furness; character of ship; advantages of service in small ships; move to Mediterranean; Malta convoy system; destroyer action against Italian Navy cruisers Raimondo Montecuccli and Eugenio di Savoia, 15/6/1942; further details of asdic operation. REEL 3 Continues: destruction of Italian Navy submarine, Cobalto, 12/8/1942; treatment of Italian prisoners of war on board ship; damage to ship from ramming Italian Navy submarine Cobalto, 12/8/1942; German Air Force attack on ship off Bône, French Algeria, 27/11/1942-28/11/1942; sight of sinking of HMS Eagle after torpedoing by German submarine U-73, 11/8/1942. Aspects of officer training at HMS King Alfred, Hove, GB, 1943: selection; failure rate and training; commissioning. Recollections of operations as officer aboard HMS Ballinderry in North Atlantic and Mediterranean, 9/1943-5/1945: character of ship and it's armament; duties; relations between officers and ratings; escort duties based on Gibraltar. REEL 4 Continues: escort duties in Mediterranean; showing flag in Caribbean, 1945; effects of war service; Royal Navy tradition for 'engaging enemy more closely'.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Perkins, Donald (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1986-06-26
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 9323

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Interview with Donald Perkins

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