Operations with the British Pacific Fleet

These photos cover the period February 1945 thorough to November 1945 when SLINGER served with the British Pacific Fleet, first as a replenishment carrier and the as a ferry carrier.

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Thanks to the following individuals for supplying the images; the symbols identify which images belong to which donor, images with no symbol are from the collections of John Lawson & Tony Drury:

* Images taken from the photo album of the late Reg Hunt, Stores Assistant.
Reg served in HMS SLINGER 29 August 1943 to 8 November 1945.

∞ Kindly supplied by Mr. David Yates, part of a collection of materials that belonged to his grandfather Able Seaman Herbert Wilkinson who Served on HMS SLINGER September 1944 to December1945.

$ Kindly supplied by Mr. Mike Roshier; Mike kindly loaned two rolls of film negatives shot by his father Alan John Roshier while serving on HMS SLINGER in the ship's photographic department 1945.

^ Kindly supplied by Mrs.Maureen Corfield, daughter of arine Edward Badham of MONAB 8.

# Thanks to Mr. E.M. 'Mac' McCarthy a former Writer who served with HMS Nabcatcher. MONAB 8. and took passage to Hong Kong on SLINGER.

β Kindly supplied by Mr. Cyril Davies who served as an Able Seaman, D/JX651199, on SLINGER in 1945.

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