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**Como83** · 25-03-10, 04:51

SWing those lamps...

On another escort carrier, exercising in that area in early '45, I was told of a Yankee escort that had blown up there, no survivors - while refuelling aircraft or something involving fuelling.

On that same ship I'd been told with great glee as a new chum to Russian convoys of Convoy PQ16(?) the one that got wiped.

- Had been O/S so was out of touch with what had happened in Atlantic.

So much for Security. All this was known to them; of course it wasn't exactly shouted from the rooftops.

Como

**soleil** · 28-01-11, 10:10

HMS Dasher - more secrets revealed - Irvine Herald

**soleil** · 12-08-11, 11:24

Cause of fatal wartime explosion on aircraft carrier in Clyde finally revealed | ShetlandTimes.co.uk

**Rodgersthecabinboy** · 12-08-11, 19:01

It is little wonder that after being given the designation, C.V.E. (Convoy Escort)
The ships companys of these Woolworth Carriers called them,Combustible,Volitile and Expendable.

My Dad served on one of her later Sisters, Pursuer.

**soleil** · 27-10-11, 17:03

Naval campaigners will find out at last where the bodies are buried | Caledonian Mercury - Heritage

**janner** · 27-10-11, 18:43

You might wonder why the Govnmt felt it necessary to bury the papers for another 75 years in 2008, I can't think of any reason.

**BreathingOutOnTheWayUp** · 27-10-11, 21:16

Originally Posted by janner

You might wonder why the Govnmt felt it necessary to bury the papers for another 75 years in 2008, I can't think of any reason.

Janner,

Some conspiracy theorists have it that the welsh vagrant, destined to become Major Martin RM for Op. Mincemeat, was replaced at the last minute with a similar, but much fresher, corpse recovered from among HMS DASHER's casualties.

Whatever the reason for the aditional 75 year blanket it goes quite against the grain in this, supposedly, 'age of the FOI.'

Bob