INTRODUCTION


Welcome to this little history of the boats my father served in while in the Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) during WW2. His name was William Gordon, born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1918.  His ships were the minesweeper HMD Harvest Reaper, and the Anti-submarine trawlers HMT Imperialist and HMT Haarlem.

If you are looking for specific information on the boats, then go to their pages on the list at the top of the blog where there is more information . There is also a general page which covers stories by, and information on, RNPS seamen and their ships. And of course a page with the photographs of my father and his shipmates.



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2 comments:

  1. Angus Graham11 November 2025 at 21:44

    Interesting to see this. My dad, then a young Admiralty technician, was probably the last to see and talk to the crew of the Jewel. He had finished degaussing it just before sea and had come ashore to see the kit stashed when, so he said, an almighty bang echoed across Belfast Lough … and there his drifter wasn't.

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  2. John14 November 2025 at 09:30

    Thanks for that, Angus. Glad you found the blog of interest.

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