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. He served as an Ordinary Seaman, then a Steward, and then a Cook. His ships were the minesweeper HMD
Harvest Reaper, the torpedo recovery trawler HMT
Sheen, and the Anti-submarine trawlers HMT
Imperialist and HMT
Haarlem. He also briefly served on a harbour defence motor launch, (
ML1130), and HMT
Brock.
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that, Angus. Glad you found the blog of interest.
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