Interview with Donald Hammond

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British apprentice and officer served with Merchant Navy in North and South Atlantic and Far East, 1928-1939; officer served aboard HMS Tenedos in Far East, 1940-1942; served aboard HMS Bayntun, Escort Group B4 in North Atlantic, 1943-1944; commanded HMS Rosemary in GB coastal waters, 1945; civilian pilot on Suez Canal in Egypt, 1947-1956

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REEL 1 Background in Healing, GB, 1914-1928: family; education. Recollections of period as apprentice with Merchant Navy, 1928-1939: work as apprentice with Ropner Shipping Coy Ltd; use of 'Flying Angel' missions; story of boxing bout with German seaman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1931; development of caree; level of pay for Merchant Navy officers; handling of paper cargo; job with The China Navigation Coy from 1936; story of gold smuggling aboard SS Shantung. REEL 2 Continues: transport of Chinese labour to Malaya, late 1930s; anti-piracy precautions; second hand story of pirating of SS Shantung; opinion of visits to Tientsin; Japanese air attacks on Chinese junks at Pak Hoi; boarding of his ship by Japanese warship's crew near Tientsin, 1938; memories of John Kerans; volunteering for Royal Navy after outbreak of Second World War, 1939. Recollections of operations as officer aboard HMS Tenedos in Far East, 1940-1942: drafting to destroyer at Singapore, Malaya, 8/1940; patrol duties; celebrations in Sarawak, British Borneo, 9/1940. REEL 3 Continues: mine laying off Singapore, Malaya; waiting to intercept Italian cargo vessel SS Vittoria; arrival of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales in Singapore, 12/1941; start of war against Japanese, 12/1941; narrow escape from Japanese air attack off coast of Malaya, 10/12/1941; escorting Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham to Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies, 2/1942; fall of Singapore, Malaya, 15/2/1942; Japanese shelling of Singapore Harbour, 5/2/1942; attempt to aid burning SS Nora Moller in Banka Strait, 3/2/1942; operating from Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies; reasons why ship was on fringe of Battle of the Java Sea, 2/1942. REEL 4 Continues: taking refugees from Pandang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies to Colombo, Ceylon; damage to ship during Japanese air raid on Colombo, Ceylon, Easter Sunday, 5/4/1942; driving away looter in Colombo Harbour; role taking codes from Colombo, Ceylon to Madras, India; voyage aboard HMT Duchess of Richmond from India to GB. Recollections of operations as officer aboard HMS Bayntun, Escort Group B4 in North Atlantic, 1943-1944: background to appointment to ship after brief convoy duties aboard HMS Anchusa; advantages and disadvantages of ship for escort duties; surfacing of German submarine during Convoy ONS 11; damage to ship from own depth charging; character of captain, Lieutenant Richard Lazenby. REEL 5 Continues: taking command of Convoy HX 250, 7/1943-8/1943. Recollections of operations commanding HMS Rosemary in GB coastal waters, 1945: taking command of ship at Dundee; duties escorting submarines; co-operation with Fleet Air Arm; beaching of ship at Milford Haven after VE Day, 5/1945; appointment to command HMS Lewes in Sydney, Australia, 1945. Aspects of period commanding HMS Fernmoor in Far East, 1945-1947: taking command of boom carrier; financing of ship's supplies; role taking time expired service personnel from Hong Kong to GB. Recollections of period as pilot Suez Canal, Egypt, 1947-1956: obtaining employment as pilot, 1947. REEL 6 Continues: problems of piloting; collision between Danish tanker and Devana; second accident he had; effect of Egyptian nationalisation of Suez Canal, 7/1956.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Interwar (content), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Hammond, Donald (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-08-31
Dimensions: whole: Duration 170, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 19656

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