SOME FASCINATIONS begin in childhood and never let go. For me, one such allure was the silent menace of submarines—sleek, powerful vessels gliding unseen beneath the waves. In later years I found something similarly captivating on land: the commanding presence of smartly painted, intelligently-designed heavy lorries—powerful machines that appear as stunning and substantive as any …
Forward view from the conning tower of HMS TRIBUNE running on the surface in Scottish waters. Prior to writing my post, ‘Six Weeks Silent Service,’ it was necessary for me to to obtain details of life aboard a World War Two submarine. This meant accessing a number of useful websites. Information from these sites enabled …
HMS Alliance, Gibraltar This post is intended as a footnote to the one of November 30, titled ‘Six Weeks Silent Service’, in which I wrote of my father’s brief experience as a reluctant submariner during 1941. As with all my posts, I included several illustrations to support the text - after all, ‘a picture paints …
RAVEN MOON 