Learning the dangers of serving in the navy
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March ‘41, or April I guess, April ‘41, we finally got to
Singapore and got our ship, first ship, HMS Turbon, and it was
when it was peace time out there until December the 8th, of
course, and then the party started. And we were the last ship to
leave Singapore and we got bombed fairly smartly the next day
leaving, we took out the last of the Argyle and Sutherland
Highlanders. They had been fighting
all the way down the peninsula.
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There weren't very many of them left.
And some were killed on their, on the way.
And anyway, the ship had to go to the United States for a
re-fit, and we were transferred to, the midshipmen were
transferred to HMS Dorchester, and she was sunk six weeks later,
I think. We met, we were, we were coming out of Ceylon to join
the main eastern fleet and the Japanese were coming up from the
south, they with their carriers and so on. A reconnaissance
plane saw us and called, they called it in to the Japanese
Admiral, Admiral Nagumo, and they sent their dive bombers
and finished us off very smartly.
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