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Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives – #Memoir – Life on the Ocean Wave – Part Five 1943 – 1946 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats, Ceylon, HMS Woolwich, Earl Mountbatten – by Eric Coleman

Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives – #Memoir – Life on the Ocean Wave – Part Five 1943 – 1946 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats, Ceylon, HMS Woolwich, Earl Mountbatten – by Eric Coleman

As part of the series of Posts from Your Archives which is focused on family, I thought I would share two series from my own archives from 2016. One is my father’s memoir about his life in the Royal Navy that we persuaded him to write two years before his death in 1996, Life on the Ocean Wave.

The other series is the first book, The Colour of Life, we published for my father-in-law Geoff Cronin,…

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Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives – #Memoir – Life on the Ocean Wave – Part Five 1943 – 1946 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats, Ceylon, HMS Woolwich, Earl Mountbatten – by Eric Coleman

Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives – #Memoir – Life on the Ocean Wave – Part Five 1943 – 1946 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats, Ceylon, HMS Woolwich, Earl Mountbatten – by Eric Coleman

As part of the series of Posts from Your Archives which is focused on family, I thought I would share two series from my own archives from 2016. One is my father’s memoir about his life in the Royal Navy that we persuaded him to write two years before his death in 1996, Life on the Ocean Wave.

The other series is the first book, The Colour of Life, we published for my father-in-law Geoff Cronin,…

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Royal Navy Escorts Russian Gunboat Through Channel

Royal Navy Escorts Russian Gunboat Through Channel

HMS Forth Monitors Transit of Russian Vessel Vasily Bykov

Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Forth monitored the progress of a Russian naval vessel Vasily Bykov through the English Channel and Dover Strait, Wednesday, according to the Royal Navy.

HMS Forth had just returned to UK waters from her first foreign port visit when she was called upon to shadow the Russian patrol ship Vasily Bykov.

Forth had…

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What is the Fishery Protection Squadron?

What is the Fishery Protection Squadron?

Introduction

The Fishery Protection Squadron is part of the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy, the maritime component of the British Armed Forces.

What is the Role of the Fishery Protection Squadron?

The role of the Fishery Protection Squadron is to patrol the fishery limits of England, Wales and Northern Ireland – an area that covers over 80,000 square miles of sea and stretches up to 200 miles…

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Memoir of a Navy Man by Eric Coleman – Part Five - 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

Memoir of a Navy Man by Eric Coleman – Part Five – 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

In the last chapter my father recalls his time aboard HMS Beverley which was a ship not designed for rough seas… He finally managed to meet his new daughter and spend some time ashore has he completed training on new equipment. The story continues as my father joins HMS Forth and arranges to bring my mother 6 months pregnant and my eldest sister now aged 10 months to join him in the depths of…

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Eric Coleman - 1943 - 1945 - HMS Forth and captured U-boats - HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

Eric Coleman – 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

Eric Coleman – 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten.

via Eric Coleman – 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten.

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Eric Coleman - 1943 - 1945 - HMS Forth and captured U-boats - HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

Eric Coleman – 1943 – 1945 – HMS Forth and captured U-boats – HMS Woolwich Ceylon and Earl Mountbatten

The story continues as my father joins HMS Forth and arranges to bring my mother 6 months pregnant and my eldest sister now aged 10 months to join him in the depths of winter on the Scottish coast.

HMS Forth Forth was anchored in Holy Loch, off Dunoon and opposite Gourock from where the ferry ran to Kirn and Dunoon. I was put in charge of the Electrical workshops and made responsible for all…

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Marine archaeologists find wreck of 19th-century British ship off Mexico

Mexico City, Jun 6 (EFE).- Mexican marine archaeologists have located the wreck of the 19th-century British ship HMS Forth, which sank off the Yucatan Peninsula 164 years ago, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said.

The ship, which belonged to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, sank after hitting the Alacranes reef.

HMS Forth went down on the night of Jan. 14, 1849, while sailing to Bermuda.

The ship's crew made it to a nearby island, was rescued by a steam ship and reached Havana.

An INAH team led by archaeologist Helena Barba Meinecke explored the northern section of the reef and spotted metal items on the sea floor that gave researchers clues that it was a mail ship. Read more.