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Letter home from Midshipman Derek Hirst HMS Zambesi 8th May 1945
HMS Zambesi entered Bergen, Norway, on 8th May 1945, the day WW11 formally ended. The following is from a letter by Midshipman Derek Hirst to his mother started on 14th May and completed shortly after...
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Remembrance Day 2009
‘Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?‘No man is an island, entire of itself;...
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Roy Elwood on Arrochar, tuning torpedoes and climbing the local dance floor
Roy Elwood has written for us before in relation to his convoy duty with HMS Zambesi and its evacuation of the Norwegian island of Soroy. Roy acts as our Arctic Convoy Editor, coordinating the material...
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Letters home: Cyril Mullins’ contemporary account of HMS Norfolk’s arrival in...
HMS Norfolk, escorted by HMS Zambesi & HMS Obedient, entered Bergen Fjord to liberate the Norwegian city on 8th May 1945, VE Day, when the war in Europe ended,The following is an extract from a...
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WWII Arctic Convoys: weather as enemy
Below is an extract from an account by an unknown officer serving on the escort carrier, HMS Campania, flagship on escort duty for convoys JW64 and RA64 in February 1945.Roy Elwood, a convoy veteran...
View ArticleGrowth in passenger numbers marks end of HIAL winter season
Passenger numbers at Scotland’s regional airports grew last month [March 2013], bringing a positive end to the winter season. This leads into a summer season with new flight destinations and...
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Patrick Winterton and Olly Hicks: half way to completing paddle of wartime...
Patrick Winterton, a hugely qualified Argyll-based sports broadcaster, having been a Winter Olympian in 1988 and with a raft [sorry] of sea kayak expedition firsts to his credit – several the subject...
View ArticleWinterton and Hicks complete Shetland Bus kayak to Bergen
The satellite tracker on their website, Kayaks on the Shetland Bus, shows that adventurers extraordinaire, Patrick Winterton from North Argyll and his co-paddler in an unaccompanied double-kayak, Olly...
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Message from ‘Kayaks on the Shetland Bus’ team back home in success
Back home and back to their other lives are the entire team who have delivered and witnessed the successful retracing of the route of the World War II ‘Shetland Bus’ supply and escape route for the...
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