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Harstad (the Ardent visited Harstad in mid-April 1940) |
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Norway 1940 |
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Norway 1940 |
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Harstad Fjord |
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Renown & Escort
HMS Wolverine D78 |
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Renown & Exeter |
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Ajax / Returning from River Plate |
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Graf down
Graf Spee Scuttled @ Montivideo (17th December 1939) |
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Graf down |
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Graf down |
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Graf down |
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Graf down |
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Graf down |
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Exeter and Destroyer escort |
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Exeter coming home some time after River Plate action |
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Routine
Loading torpedoes @ Devonport
2nd right A/B Percy Martin (casualty) |
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Possibly L23 |
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Possibly H43 |
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Torpedo tubes with an active member of staff alongside. note my oilcan and brush - my badge of office |
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HMS Ardent
Petty officer F.L.G. Millman / Back 2nd from right
Chief Petty officeer Walter Salt / Back 3rd from right |
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Lieutenant Commander John Frederick BarkerHMS ARDENT |
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Leading Seaman John Joseph Lucey |
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Note the joint on the fork also the slim man on the other end.
Dart board on the horizon. The joint by the way is not a large chicken.
I think it was trodden on or something, I cannot recognise it. |
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Renown coming home with Exeter |
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Left to right. A/B Robert E. Coe, A.B. John S. Candlish, A/B Frank Furse |
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Gold braid / Never mind where
Devonport |
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More / I dont know which / They follow the ship in hundreds |
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These are Dolphins or Porpoises / I dont know which, anyway it is a very good photograph I think |
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Dover / Snowridden |
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Dover |
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This is taken from our Quarter deck / it is the "Courageous" about three or four days before she was sunk.
(The Courageous was sunk on 17th September 1939 by U-29) |
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Gypsy after being mined
Nov 39 |
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H.M.S. Manchester |
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Other members of the torpedo staff. Note the thumbs.
Back 2nd from right A/B John Candlish
Back 3rd from left Chief Petty officer Sidney Driscoll
2nd from left A.B Robert E Coe |
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Evacuees |
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Part of Convoy (Ronin a.k.a. Waikawa) |
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Batory / Polish American Line (Possibly the MS Batory that transferred the Polish crown jewels from Cracow and Britain's gold reserves to Montreal) |
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HMS Ardent Starboard side |
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Taken from the bridge showing the whole of the starboard side
from the bridge aft. |
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Just a slight roll which goes to make up so many happy moments
CENSORED
H.M.S.Ardent |
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Monarch of Bermuda 22,400 tons. Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.
(Troop ship) Norway 1940 |
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H.M.S. Valient
Norway 1940 |
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H.M.S. Valient
Norway 1940 |
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Troopship
Reina-del-Pacifico at Sea |
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Troopship
Reina-del-Pacifico 17,700 tons
Pacific Steam Navigation Co. |
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Troopship
Embress of Australia 22000 tons (The Empress Of Australia was docked in Yokohama during the Great Kanto Earthquake and helped with the relief effort) |
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Convoy |
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Convoy |
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Chrobry / Gydnia Polish American Line |
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H.M.S. Amazon
Norway 1940 |
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Harstad Pier and town during bombing raid April 16/40 |
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Harstad Norway Bombing Raid 16/4/40 |
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Harstad Norway Bombing Raid April 16th 1940 / HMS Ardent Right in picture |
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Yet another bang
Gun HMS Ardent (Night Shoot) |
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Night attack
A & B Guns HMS Ardent |
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Same night different gun
A Gun HMS Ardent |
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Routine |
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Still more water |
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Seas / over the forecastle head |
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Yet again. Dusk |
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Yet again.
CENSORED
H.M.S.Ardent |
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Same again |
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Mast head after snow |
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A & B Gun HMS Ardent |
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Carley float HMS Ardent |
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Routine |
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Routine |
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Just a slight swell taken from the QD. which makes everyone so happy and contented |
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More water |
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Slight sea |
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Depth charge ready for duty |
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I cant place this |
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George Robey and partner sat in the mess, contemplating a dart match. |
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D27 - HMS Walker following collision with HMS Vanquisher
Vanquisher later taken under tow by Ardent |
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HMS Vanquisher under tow from HMS Ardent following collision with HMS Walker |
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HMS Vanquisher following collision with HMS Walker. Awaiting tow line from HMS Ardent |
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HMS Vanquisher awaiting towing by HMS Ardent following collision with HMS Walker |
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Disembarking troops from Reina-del-Pacifico at Harstad Pier |
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French alpine troops being transferred by HMS Ardent - Norway 1940 |
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HMS ARDENT WINTER 39/40 |
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HMS ARDENT |
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HMS ACASTA (SISTER SHIP OF ARDENT) BOTH SUNK 8/6/40
Destroyer after decorations |
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Breakfast for one, but this one was always hungry |
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Sadly in need of a shave, but am trying to economise on water when at sea,
so am drinking hardly any |
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A/B R.E. Coe & A/B Percy Martin (right) HMS ARDENT |
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Routine
Loading Torpedos @ Devonport |
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Routine |
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Routine
Devonport |
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Same fish different story
Ships cat HMS Ardent |
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A cat
SHIPS CAT HMS ARDENT |
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B. Gun crew (all casualties) HMS Ardent
Back Row Right to left
Francis Horn, Leonard Reid, John Yeoman, Alf Dale & Bertram Bailey
Front Row Right to left
Stanley Elen, Sidney Arbrey |
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Enforced rowing lesson |
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Rowing lesson! respite ahead |
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More fish for how many?
Cod brought to surface following depth charge |
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Norway 1940 |
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Harstad Fjord |
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Harstad Fjord / Anchorage |
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Boom defence Scapa Flow April 9/40 |
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Norway 1940 |