Summary
After the recent Looking Back feature on the mothballed warships off Saltash in the early 1950s I heard from a number of regular readers, two of whom, Reg Evans and Alan Quartly, served on what was then described as a 'living ship' - HMS Undaunted.
Alan was the chef, catering for a skeleton crew of 70 to 100. "We were more or less a ship's company, just maintaining checks, working in watches; we couldn't do much," added Reg. "There was the Tamar Group, the Lynher Group, minesweepers, landing craft and destroyers."See the full content of this document
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Waiting for a War
It seems that some were on Lease-Lend from the Americans and most ended up being scrapped, some going to the Japanese for steel, according to gossip doing the r...
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