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Personnel => Royal Navy => Topic started by: Jenga on 13 March 2021 12:11:20 pm
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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
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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
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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
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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