The most dramatic period in my naval life concerned my service on the “ F “ class destroyer, which was a ship, essentially a fleet escort, whose role was to protect the Fleet Battleships when on ...

The Firedrake took an unusual part in the Fleet action in bombarding the Italian port, (code name Operation Result). We were to stand off the island of Sardinia and send wireless signals as decoy, ...

The return to Gibraltar was in July 1941. By that time the war had moved on to Russia as Germany invaded and was engaged over many fronts. The Malta convoys were still important to supply both Malta ...

- a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings ...