As a midshipman on the foc’s’le of Verulam he counted the destroyer’s torpedoes running towards the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro
As a midshipman on the foc’s’le of Verulam he counted the destroyer’s torpedoes running towards the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro
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As captain of a Catalina flying-boat he destroyed a German U-boat and returned his aircraft to safety despite receiving 72…
John Cruickshank who hunted submarines as captain of a Catalina flying boat was one of only 181 recipients of highest military…
After four months at sea, he left the destroyer Hardy weeks before it was sunk, a loss that haunted him for years
Royal Navy veteran, 105, tells Duchess of Edinburgh about his narrow escape in raid that sent HMS Repulse to the bottom of the…
Duncan McInnes was on board HMS Saladin which rescued hundreds of troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940. The…
He once boarded a Russian frigate to gather intelligence: ‘I went snooping around inside gun turrets and other places. It was fun’
