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Lieutenant Commander Arthur Callaway, DSO, RANVR and the courage of HM Trawler Lady Shirley

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 2014 ·

Courage of HM Trawler lady Shirley Tow hundred miles west-south-west of the Canary Islands the Atlantic rollers surge endlessly eastward towards the African shore. In October 1941, these were dangerous ...

U-859 – From Germany to Penang

Wright, Ken · Mar 4, 2007 ·

By May 1943, Germany had lost the U-boat war in the Atlantic. U-boat losses had reached an intolerable level with the loss of 38 U-boats for May alone. The Allies ...

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The Battle of the Atlantic – Contribution by Code Breakers

Keegan, John · Mar 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: In 2006, the Review published an article tracing the history of HMAS Rushcutter during the period 1939-45, when that establishment was the primary A/S training school throughout the ...

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German U-Boat Surrender 1945 – U-977

Schaeffer, Heinz · Mar 10, 2004 ·

A previous article described how surrendering German U-Boats were boarded and taken as prizes into captivity to remote lochs in Scotland and Northern Ireland. One wonders what the German Navy ...

U Boat surrender in Loch Eriboll – 8th to 23rd May 1945

Whitehouse, John · Dec 14, 2002 ·

VE DAY, 8TH MAY, was a day of bright sunshine and stiff breezes, and we sailed north through the Minches with the Scottish coast to starboard and the islands of ...

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The Capture of U-570 and Commissioning as HMS Graph – 1941

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Dec 6, 1997 ·

One of the best kept secrets of the Royal Navy during WW II was the capture of a Type VII C Submarine, U-Boat 570, and her subsequent commissioning with a ...

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Book Review: U-Boat Far from Home

Duchesne, Tim · Jun 3, 1997 ·

This is the story, told in some detail by David Stevens, of U862 – a Type IXD U-Boat (or U-Kreuzer) of nearly 2,000 tons displacement. The story is placed in ...

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The Tragedy of ‘Q’ Ship HMS Stonecrop – 1917

Auten, Harold, VC, Lieutenant Commander, RN · Mar 6, 1997 ·

In a previous issue of `Review’ (September 1996) we published the success story of the `Q’ ship, HMS ‘Stonecrop’, in WWI. In the `O’ boat service, it was luck which decided the ...

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Q-ship sinks U-boat – HMS Stonecrop – 1917

Blackwood, Henry, Captain, RN · Sep 5, 1996 ·

Captain Downes’s talk in April this year highlighted the less exciting but nonetheless demanding aspects of “Q” ship operations. H.M.S. Stonecrop’s experience in WWI was quite different. Sadly, she herself ...

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