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Chatham Dockyard Memories

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grandarog:
She must have called into Chatham on her way to the Arctic after leaving middle east in 1940.

Dave Smith:
Hi Castle. I'll bet that those 74 guns were pretty daunting? ;D  My Sister's boyfriend worked on HMS Achillies when that returned from the River Plate & dug a lamp of shrapnel out of the woodwork for me. I had a sandbag half full of shrapnel, incendiaries, etc.All gone now, sad to say.

castle261:
H.M.S. Cumberland - After the River Plate.

I was employed as a Telegram Boy at Chatham Post Office - when I was sent into Chatham Dockyard
with some telegrams. Delivering some I turned into a road - there in front of me was the - Cumberland.
It looked massive to me - a 14 year old boy - That was in early 1940.

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