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Maritime History => Harbours and Dockyards => Topic started by: castle261 on May 29, 2022, 07:02:02 AM
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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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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.
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She must have called into Chatham on her way to the Arctic after leaving middle east in 1940.