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Offline grandarog

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Re: Chatham Dockyard Memories
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2022, 03:25:49 PM »
She must have called into Chatham on her way to the Arctic after leaving middle east in 1940.


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Re: Chatham Dockyard Memories
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2022, 02:39:35 PM »
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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Chatham Dockyard Memories
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2022, 07:02:02 AM »
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.