Random thoughts and observations
I’ve never been to sea, but I enjoy naval fiction and recently discovered the work of Alexander Kent. Kent is a pseudonym for Douglas Reeman, a British author who has written dozens of books, set mostly in the Napoleonic era and the Second World War. I’ve been reading novels from the Bolitho series. Richard Bolitho [...]
We took Jim and Maggie to see the Royal Australian Navy Band march down Commercial Street today. I always love hearing a band and the kids liked it too. They also got to climb over a navy raft. Album link
Concluding the mini series on ships on which my Uncle John served in the Korean War, today I look at the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney. Launched as a Royal Navy ship HMS Terrible in 1944, Sydney was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy in 1948. Sydney was the first conventional aircraft carrier in the RAN. [...]
The picture shows my uncle John Gorey in naval uniform, wearing a cap of HMAS Shropshire. I knew Uncle John had served in the navy, including in the Korean War, but I didn’t know about the ships. The internet is good for researching things like that. John died in 1997 and I only ever met [...]
