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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
*City officials are urging residents to vote St. Marys as the top dream town in the nation
-Florida Times Union, 12-16-03
*Armored catfish show up to pester manatees
*Committee to look at problems with dogs on beach
-Daytona News Journal, 12-16-03
Sinking Warships World War 2. URL:
http://jove.prohosting.com/~sinking/wwiishtml
Good source of photographs covering the sinking of
warships in WW2. When you view some of these horrendous sights of ships
being literally
blasted to pieces and pause to think of the awful deaths of so many sailors,
it gives one a
very empty feeling in the pit of the stomach.
This I know, is one aspect of AHOY that Terry is not happy
about, when he
needs to view a
photo I have asked him to place in a certain place, he
does not like to
look at such illustrations. WAR IS HELL! but if any such shot on AHOY can act as a
deterrent to the
horrors of war,
it will have served our web site.
The World Wide Web Virtual Library. Naval and Maritime Ships.
URL: http://vlnavmar.usnaweb.org/ships.html
Great source of information about US ships.
WW1. The War At Sea.
URL: http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.html
Incredible site for all about WW1 at Sea.
US Submarine Force History Links.
URL: http://www.sid-ss.net/history/histsub2.htm
Useful links to Submarine sites. Also look at Page One.
HazeGray and Underway Web Links.
URL: http://www.hazegray.org/links.htm
A host of links to useful sites about Naval and Maritime
subjects.
ThePacific War 1942. ????
The Battle of Savo Island. August 9, 1942. Off
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
This one came in from Nicholas also, and it relates to his Father's stories, and other information he has filed. The previous E-Mail about the Sydney is something quite
new, and should not go in at Gentleman Cordite.
Lets wait and see how he responds to my reply.
Mac.
I am absolutely delighted to receive an e mail from Chris the grandson of Nutty Ferris as a result of contact from your site.
As soon as I visit the site I see that you have been TALKING about me! Great thing a search engine..........................
I will of course take this interesting matter further with him and he seems to have some photos to illustrate Gentlemen Cordite and some of the other historical bits that I have. I have the words and he may have some of Nutty's photos.
By the way, I do have some rough copies of reports of proceedings from SHROPSHIRE and BATAAN but the originals are lodged with AWM also BATAAN's night order books. I remember passing a whole load of stuff to Captain Parkin at Australia House who was very pleased with the take, which included original documents from PERTH, SHROPSHIRE and BATAAN including Operation Round-Up. I have a photo of PERTH taking a 500lb bomb hit just by funnel off Crete in 1941 also a shot of HMS JUNO blowing up also the caiques of Crete full of Germans that Perth sunk a few minutes later.
I have in my private collection letters from Philip to Dad also from Lord Louis Mountbatten but I cant really pass any of that over. Dads 80th Birthday card from SHROPSHIRE is annotated with a letter from Buck House on the rear. Also I collected more than 150 letters from friends and comrades of his when he was 80. Polly his wife found him in tears at 0300 once I had given him the two books brimfull of letters from you Aussies on his birthday.
The most famous photo is that of Warwick, Arthur Cooper, George Cheadle, ?? Feltham and Nutty Ferris on the 40mm bofors gun deck of HMAS SHROPSHIRE in 1945 and Chris has the same photo - Wow. I now know the date and where it was taken.
I have also told HMS TRIUMPH in Devonport that Chris has possibly identified the submarine in dry-dock in 1941 in Malta as ............... HMS TRIUMPH - See "HMAS PERTH wins her spurs" the most exiting war story ever!
Can this contact please be passed to HMAS SHROPSHIRE or HMAS PERTH Associations because I dont know their E mails and would appreciate contact in reply.
Hope that Harry Wakeham and John Date are well.
I still have my RAN service documents raised at age 1 month by those tough old gunners ................................... (You sonoffa.........................!!!!!!!) I was christened within the ships bell of HMAS SHROPSHIRE.
Bless you all and hope the cricket gets betta...................................
NICOLAS BRACEGIRDLE
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