HMS Ballinderry WWI.

[seaweed]

Sounds a more likely scenario.
If he was RN in WW2, his service records are still with the MOD.
you can obtain a copy, cost you £30.
https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records
If no record exists, you can then pursue other avenue's.

[pityackafromblyth]

seaweed, Thank you again.  As you say, it is now looking like WWII scenario. From another living relative [in the last few days] I learned that whilst the RN ships were being built, future officers who would take command in various  positions once commissioned, would be present on a daily basis overseeing the construction, " to learn the ins and outs of how each part of the ship would and should work correctly."

[dvinell]

I stumbled across this whilst searching for something entirely different.

Andrew Douglas Vinell was my stepfather, born in 1923 in Tonbridge, died in 1999, served on the River Class Frigate K255 "Ballinderry" in WWII.

He named our house in Tonbridge ... "Ballinderry House".
His Sealine S240 motorboat also got named "Ballinderry" 

I have a couple of photos, but it's definitely all late WWII.
Apparently, he was a whizz with the Radar, which was quite new at the time.

He didn't talk much about WWII, but did say that they had various adventures chasing subs, and they picked up a number of sailors from a merchant ship that had been torpedoed off Gibraltar.

In Blyth, he would most likely have been in digs, training on the ship before it set sail for the first time.

The Andrew Vinell (tax recruitment) you find at the top of a Google search is his son, and my half brother.

dv.

[pityackafromblyth]

dvinell, Thanks for your post re your stepfather, and as a result you have confirmed that the card relates to 1942 or thereabouts.
I will send you a private message in Roots re who the recipient was.
Thanks,
pityackafromblyth.