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Title: General query S.T.E Southampton on grandfathers ww2 records
Post by: Jenga on 13 March 2021 12:11:20 pm

Hi I am new to this forum and am researching my grandfathers royal naval service during ww2. On his service record it lists one of his ships as S.T.E Southampton (dec 43-jan44) but unlike his other ships (including those which were shore establishments) I can find no information of this anywhere. Does anyone know what the STE Southampton refers to and how I might find out more information regarding this please?

Also for his others ships is there a way of easily finding out the ports he docked at during his royal naval journey please?

Many thanks for any help that you can provide
Jen

Title: Re: General query S.T.E Southampton on grandfathers ww2 records
Post by: James_harvey on 16 May 2021 07:43:31 am

T E is training establishment

S could be Stoker signal or seaman depending on his trade

What was is trade? And the letter before the X ( j k m l f etc)

As this will help decipher

Title: Re: General query S.T.E Southampton on grandfathers ww2 records
Post by: Jenga on 16 May 2021 12:49:15 pm

Hi thanks for your response. He was a stoker and has the prefix K on his service number.

Do you why ste Southampton  is different from other shore establishments that have hms prefix please? I also can’t find any reference to in on the web as I can for his other shore posting on hms ships.

Thanks

Title: Re: General query S.T.E Southampton on grandfathers ww2 records
Post by: Mo westham on 31 December 2021 02:43:07 pm

Hi,
FYI, I think your father was there the same time as mine. Mine was there Dec / Feb '44, possibly one of the classes after? His service number was KX 63938