WW2 Ships of the Royal Navy

[easy12]

Hi All,
          my late father served in the Royal Navy before, during and after WW2. Among his belongings I have found a photo album containing photos of Naval Warships and a large number of them have their fate noted below the photo. If anybody has a particular ship they would like a photo of or wish to know the fate of a particular ship I MAY be able to help.
The photos would obviously be scanned copies and I doubt that every ship is covered.
easy12

[otters]

Hi,

My late father also served in the Royal Navy during world war 2 but he was on Merchant ships as a gunner. According to his records he was on the Glendower, The President 111, Victory and Excellent. I know some were training ships but he has the Cheverons 1943-44, the 39-45 Star, The Atlantic Star, The Italy Star and the Burma Star and Rosette medals.

If you have any photo's I would love to have a copy of any of the ships.

Thank you for your offer.

[easy12]

Hi Otters,
                 I shall have a hunt through tomorrow and post any successes then.
easy12

[Salty]

Victory was the name of the main Royal Naval Barracks in Portsmouth until it changed recently to HMS Nelson.

Excellent was the name of the Naval Gunnery School at Whale Island, Portsmouth.

Salty

[easy12]

Hi Otters,
                further to Salty's post the Glendower was a also a training establishment in Wales I believe and personel seemed to go from there to HMS Excellent (Whale Island). I spent many an unhappy day at Whale Island as an Artificer Apprentice at the mercy of the "Gunners" who seemed to have a built in dislike of us apprentices. I digress. HMS President 111 was actually an accounting base and not an actual ship. As Naval ranks have to belong to somebody anybody who was posted to a non specific Naval vessel, like an armed merchant ship for instance, would be allocated HMS President 111 as their ship for the purposes of administration. If you Google HMS President 111 you can find memorials to RN men who have lost their lives on a Merchant Ship and in brackets is HMS President 111. I should add that these were very brave men who fought under very one sided odds against some really massive opposition. The Jervis Bay is probably one of the most famous ones.
Hope that this helps
Easy12

[ROAN1949]

Hi Easy12,

I don't suppose you've got any information on the following.
My father served on these during WW11.

I think Raleigh and Drake were training ships or bases?

Raleigh
Drake         
Vulture
Malabar      
Circassia       
Furious      
Shark?Shank?       
Glenearn
Braganza


Thanks,
Tony

[Salty]

HMS Raliegh is a Training Est in Plymouth
HMS Drake became the RN Barracks Devonport
HMS Malabar was RN Barracks in Bermuda
Circassia was an Armed Merchant Cruiser
HMS Shark was a Submarine
Glenearn was a Troop Landing ship
HMS Braganza was the RN Barracks in Bombay

If you Google all the above, there is plenty of info.

Salty

[ROAN1949]

Thanks Salty.
Tony

[otters]

Hello Salty and Easy 12.

Thank you so much for your information. My dad never spoke about the war, no matter how much I asked. I know from photo's he went to Australia and New Zealand and also New York because he was in Naval uniform.
The information you gave about HMS President 111 makes me realise now that I most probably will never know the actual ships he was on which is a pity.
This may sound a silly question but, would he have actually served in the Atlantic and Italy and Burma to get the medals? I still have his medals that will be handed over to my sons in time.

Again thank you for you help. Otters.