Sources of Information

Apart from my father's album of photographs, the other photographs and text are from:

Wikipedia - always worth a search

The Imperial War Museum - a very useful source as much has been digitised.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search

The Bosun's Watch - A site with details of fishing boats sailing out of Fleetwood
http://www.fleetwood-trawlers.info/index.php/2009/01/st-imperialist-fd83/

The Royal Naval Patrol Service Association - with history of the service
http://www.rnpsa.co.uk/cms/?History

Harry Tate's - a site dedicated to the RNPS with stories and info
http://www.harry-tates.org.uk/

The BBC archives - with people's stories from WW2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/

GWPDA - a WW1 site with lots of info
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/atrawler/cont.htm

For boats sailing out of Harwich and area:
http://www.harwichanddovercourt.co.uk/warships/trawlers/

 For scottish built boats:

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=55393&vessel=HARVEST+REAPER

www.naval-history.net

www. uboatarchive.net

www. uboat.net

Useful books with stories and descriptions of the U-boat war from ex-sailors are:

Trawlers go to War  by Paul Lund and Harry Ludlum
His Majesty's Minesweepers  HMSO
1st U-boat Flotilla by Lawrence Paterson
The Uboat Peril by Bob Whinney
In All respects Ready for Sea by Herbert Gordon Male
U-boat Killer by Donald MacIntyre
Lilliput Fleet by Cecil Hampshire


And a couple of novels featuring trawlers and/or U-boats in WW2

Grey Seal by Alfred Draper
The Raging of the Deep by Alfred Draper
Storm over Singapore by Alfred Draper
Sharks and Little Fish by Wolfgang Ott