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Description: | One small album of photographs (125 images) relating to the service of Able Seaman Bill Young, probably aboard HMS CLARE. The collection coveres convoy duties of a small escort vessel possibly CLARE on the North African and West African convoy routes. The collection covers the standard shots of various features of the upper deck, torpedo tubes, foc'sle, funnel, searchlight, and pom-pom deck. Also covered are group portraits of torpedomen of the Quarterdeck party, North African traders in dhows, West African labourers cleaning the ship's boilers, scenes at Freetown, sailor in cold weather clothing, anti-aircraft practice at Londonderry, scenes at Algiers and on the Mediterranean, below deck scenes such as sailors in hammocks and the junior rates mess deck, U-Boat U-516 surrendering to HMS CAVENDISH, May 9th 1945, ship's company being addressed by Commodore (Northern Ireland) at Londonderry during return after sinking U Boat. Ships featured: HMS CLARE, HMS STORK, HMS TERROR, HMS ABERDEEN, HMS IBIS, ENCHANTRESS, PELICAN, AVENGER, WALNEY, ARGUS, HMS TYNE, HMS CAPETOWN, HMML 559, HMML 580, HMS CAVENDISH. Also 3 picture postcards relating to the Young Women's Christian Association's (YWCA) Women's Day, 1917. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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