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 on: Today at 08:52:52 am 
Started by ValB - Last Post by PhiloNauticus

The 'stripe' is a Good Conduct Badge - it indicates four years service.

The 'insignia' is his rate badge - a single anchor means a Leading Hand - it is indistinct, so could be crossed anchors = Petty Officer


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 on: Yesterday at 09:15:50 am 
Started by ValB - Last Post by ValB
Can anyone help with any info that can be gleaned from this photo of a sailor from 1918. He has a stripe on his arm and an insignia above.
The sailor is in a group family photo and nobody has names for the people. He could be easily identified as a particular uncle if he was the only one in the navy but since many of the 10 sisters in the family married career sailors or men enlisting during WW1, I'm in a bit of a pickle to work out which one is which so if anyone can help me, it would be much appreciated.

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 on: 07 February 2025 11:46:36 pm 
Started by Becky9 - Last Post by Capt Pugwash
Hi there Becky 9 & colinj etc.
I also have dived this wreck & wondered what it was..........
It seems that there were more than two of these vessels made.
Vospers made L3507 & L3508 as shown in the war museum videos,
But there may have been more
L713.....L715 were apparently built by Mc  Tay  Maritime  Ltd up in Merseyside in1986
And possibly L 700.....L711 were built by other yards ( according to the Paxmanhistory web page).
Paxman made most of the naval diesel motors for landing craft & other vessels .

Does anyone know any details of these other LCM / LCU. Mk9 vessels ?
RSVP.
Capt Pugwash

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 on: 30 January 2025 06:47:28 am 
Started by Philip L - Last Post by Philip L
HMS Archer, Escort Carrier, is mentioned in an article in the Advertiser (South Australia). Monday, 5th July 1943. Safe Passage of Convoy.

Inside this article are details of an Extraordinarily frank article, describing in detail the Allies methods and devices which have transformed warfare against U-Boats, which appears in "Das Reich". It was written by a German naval Officer, Lt-Cmdr. Kuhat.

APA citation
SAFE PASSAGE OF CONVOY (1943, July 5). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 30, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48759014


Defeat of U-Boats is an article in the Advertiser on Friday, 9th July 1943.

There are details of a candid German Admission from R-Adml Luetzow in relation to what is termed as Compressed Area. Allies' tactics are explained in regard to Aircraft, Escort Carriers and other RN war ships such as destroyers.

APA citation
DEFEAT OF U-BOATS (1943, July 9). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 30, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48759529

Philip L

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 on: 29 January 2025 04:25:27 pm 
Started by ValB - Last Post by ValB
Yet again...... brilliant info PhiloNauticus !

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 on: 29 January 2025 02:50:34 pm 
Started by ValB - Last Post by PhiloNauticus

Ratings were allowed 28 days leave, plus public holidays, per year.  In home waters, this would normally be taken in three chunks, at Christmas and Easter, plus one other period, usually fitting in with the ships programme. 
 
In addition ratings were allowed overnight leave.

He would presumably have been granted 9 or 10 days leave at Easter; would have expected something similar at Christmas, and so could have requested to take the balance or a portion of it [perhaps a week] in the summer, if he could be spared from his duties....
 
It was not unusual for ratings to accrue leave that had not been taken - this would usually be taken on leaving a ship, prior to joining a new one ...

Leave records would be kept by the ship, and I doubt any have survived.

[source for the above info:Kings Regulations and Admiralty Instructions [1913 ed] paras 872-899]

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 on: 29 January 2025 01:03:04 pm 
Started by ValB - Last Post by ValB
Thank you PhiloNauticus

Am I right in thinking that if Fred stayed onboard as part of a reduced crew then that would / might mean he would not get much leave other than overnight shore leave on a rota and would not have had much opportunity to go up to London?

He said in a letter it was very expensive to travel up from Pompey and I was thinking that if he had come back to Portsmouth from elsewhere on 5th March 1920 then he might have taken any accrued leave soon after he came back or early April (Easter) and gone up to London then.

I don't know how much leave he would have got in total (other than overnight shore leave) and presumably there are no "leave" records surviving.

Would it be the case that someone taking 2-3-4 days leave (or however long they were allowed in one "hit") in March or for Easter would not be able to do the same again during July or maybe not even before sailing to Gibraltar on the 28th August.

Thanks
ValB

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 on: 28 January 2025 07:44:07 pm 
Started by ValB - Last Post by PhiloNauticus

Monarch was at Portsmouth.

On 5 March 1920 she was reduced to Reserve, and remained moored at Portsmouth, with a reduced crew

She does not seem to have moved far until 28 August, when she sailed from Portsmouth for Gibraltar, carrying relief crews for ships in the Mediterranean.  She returned to Portsmouth on 25 September




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 on: 28 January 2025 09:20:07 am 
Started by ValB - Last Post by ValB
As you were!!!!! I have just realised that this is probably Dryad but I don't know how to remove the post.... sorry.

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 on: 28 January 2025 09:16:35 am 
Started by ValB - Last Post by ValB
On the attached photo of a service record, under vessel / establishment in the left hand column it says " Dujad" and under that it says Caterham and Alresford. I can't find anything on the internet about Dujad or possibly Dugad ......... does anyone know what this is / means?

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