Group Photos 1940-1959 | Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum

HMS PARTHIAN run ashore 1941

From Gerald Wood
My father, Norman Wood DSM*, is back row 8th from left.

HMS UNBENDING's Jolly Roger 1943 - 1

From Gerald Wood

From Anthony Hassett
SIDONs Crew at Hong Kong in 1945

Aurochs 1958

From Kipper Walker
AUROCHS (the Woolly
Bull) alongside the jetty in HMAS PENGUIN at Balmoral, SYDNEY; The CO is Peter HAY. This was taken probably in September 1958 the day before AUROCHS departed for UK across the Pacific (3 weeks) (see one of the All Round Looks article about TAHITI written by me); via Panama,stopping at Curacoa and Key West with a very rough passage across the North Atlantic in a WSW gale until approaching UK when it turned to an EASTERLY; i reckon we wore Safety Belts for 50% of the time in the Atlantic. The CO was Peter Hay who took redundancy on arriving UK.

OTC 132

From James Rose
OTC 132 from 1956
Just managed to find this 65 year old photograph of my training class led by Richard Compton-Hall; a fine body of young men. I am second on the right in the front row with our Canadian colleague Neil Boivin outside me.

HMS Springer

From Mike Hunt: Wardroom of Springer, late 1957
Back row l-R
Ryan Harman. NO. John Pratt (Winton) EO, David James (??) Mid RNVR Mike Hunt TO
Front Row: Dick Heaslip. 1st Lt. Richard Compton-Hall. CO

Sparkers Class Collingwood Division 44 Mess 1952-53

From New Pearson, back row right

Sparkers Class Christmas Bash 1952

OTC 114 Sep 1949

From Benn Goulding

HMS Devonshire Cruise Spring Cruise 1952

Can you spot Terry Thompson? He is is above the left side bollard, one row up above the senior officers and one of few who is smiling!

Raleigh Class 22A

Raleigh 1955. The Instructor is Chief Petty Officer, Quarters Armourer, Roland Bruford.

A particularly ‘human’ and very smart Chief GI, softly spoken with a West Country accent and slightly built with a chest full of medals and a remarkable resemblance to the actor Richard Widmark. It was he who trained us on Seamanship and parade ground work and his manner made my entry into the RN a lot easier than it could have been. Only recently found out why :-
As a young seaman gunner at the age of around 17 or 18 he was taken a prisoner of the Japanese. May have been a survivor of the sinking of the ‘Prince of Wales’ or the ‘Repulse’.
At the end of the war he returned home in a very bad condition and all his family helped him to recover and he returned to the Navy.
According to his sister, he died thirty years ago at the age of seventy.

The name of Bruford is quite rare and I tried to find him or any of his relatives if only to tell them that I knew him and what I remember of him.
His sister was very happy to get my letter last month and brought her back many happy memories.
Don Cleavin

Raleigh Guard

Guard on parade in H.M.S. Raleigh, in 1955. That was in the last year of the Black Cap Navy.
Officer of the guard is Lt Eng Furnival, PO of the guard is POM(E) D’Oreal.
Me, back row fourth from the right.
Don Cleavin

HMS Trespasser

‘Trespasser’ on ‘Capex’, deployment in Simonstown in 1960.
CO, Lt Alan Turville, fourth officer in from the left. Third from left Lt Prentice ( No 1 ) Second from left MEO Lt David Taylor.
First on the left is a Merchant Navy Navigator seconded to the RN for aquant. Fifth Officer on the right is Lt Sharon RCN.
Me, fourth round cap from the left in front of the gun platform.
Don Cleavin