|
Members of the Crew of HMS
Seagull |
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LAST NAME |
FIRST NAMES |
RANK |
SERVICE NUMBER |
DATE
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AGE |
SOURCE
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Abrams |
J |
ME |
|
1950-51 |
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http://www.surveyships.org.uk/ |
|
Blair |
C O |
Cd Eng |
|
10.3.37 |
|
Navy List for Dec 1939 |
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Boothman |
|
ERA |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Bradie |
Charles |
AB |
|
2.40 - 4.45 |
|
|
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Bragg |
|
Stoker PO |
|
|
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From Plymouth
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Brookes |
|
Stoker |
|
|
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From Cornwall
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Brown-Dando |
Roy |
Ldg Signalman4 |
|
24.3.48 - 1.4.49 |
29 |
Character: Very Good; Efficiency:
Satisfactory
Source: Zena Dyche, Grandaughter |
|
Cargenvan |
|
ERA |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Chilton |
|
Stoker PO |
|
|
|
From Plymouth
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Chowens |
|
Chief Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Collins |
K St B |
|
|
1946-47 |
|
|
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Cunliffe |
|
Ldg Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Curtis |
|
Stoker PO |
|
|
|
From Plymouth
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Dalton |
Christopher Joseph |
Stoker |
|
|
|
Died in 1991 (Info from Matthew
Shearer, son in law) |
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Darnborough |
F G |
Tempy Lt |
|
8.11.39 |
|
Navy List for Dec 1939 |
|
Davis |
|
Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Day |
|
Yeoman Signals |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Delamar |
G |
SR3 |
|
1950 |
|
http://www.surveyships.org.uk/ |
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Dixon |
Ken |
Sub Lt |
|
1944 |
|
http://www.purtonmuseum.com/index.htm |
|
Dixon |
|
Ldg Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Dodd |
Raymond Anthony |
Lt |
|
5.41 - 6.43 |
|
My wife's
stepfather served on HMS Seagull from May 1941 until June 1943. He was
Lt Raymond Anthony Dodd. He volunteered in Shanghai Nov 1939, was
shipped to Hong Kong and on to England. Had various postings before
the Seagull, discharged in November 1946 when he returned to Hong
Kong. Returned to England 1959 .Died 1971.
Alan Hall Feb 2008 |
|
Driscoll |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From S. Ireland
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Driscoll |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From S. Ireland (not related to above)
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Duckenfield |
E |
AB(SR) |
|
1949-50 |
|
http://www.surveyships.org.uk/ |
|
Dunn |
|
Stoker PO |
|
|
|
From Plymouth
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Earp |
Leslie John |
AB |
|
2.42 - 4.43 |
|
Info from L W Earp (son) |
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Ellis |
R C |
Lt Cdr |
|
1943-44 |
|
|
|
Evans |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Farnell |
Charles Frederick (Fred) |
Asst Steward/ Steward |
|
22.1.41 - 27.1.42 |
|
Born 10th March 1908 in Newton
Manchester
Source of information: Lisa Farnell
(Grandaughter)
|
|
Fennell |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From S. Ireland
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Figgott |
|
Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Foster |
Harry |
Stoker |
DK/X539612 |
5.44 - 8.45 |
|
My Dad Harry Foster served as a stoker
in HMS Seagull from May 1944 (he remembers the grounding incident)
until August 1945. He has communicated with Eric Ilott and Albert
Walker but lost touch. After Seagull he joined HMS Patroller in
Scotland and took her to the far east to pick up many of the (14th?)
Army boys. His official number was DK/X 539612 and he is alive and
well and living in Cannington, Somerset. His favourite story is going
ashore in Ipswich on VE night but wondering how he could conserve the
10 shillings he had in his pocket, he needn’t have worried – he met a
bunch of US airman in a pub and they wouldn’t let him buy a drink!
I am his son George Foster and I too served as a stoker in the RN from
1963 to 1971.
Jan 2008 |
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Francis |
|
Ldg Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Fraser |
A W |
Tempy Lt |
|
21.9.44 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Fulton |
A |
Tempy Sub Lt |
|
19.8.43 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Glover |
William |
Ldg Stoker |
DKX/105155 |
9.40 - 4.44 |
20 |
Your site giving the ships history has
been read by my father in law with great interest and he remembers
many of the crew he served with in the arctic and Russia. His name is
William Glover known as (Jan) rank leading stoker service number DKX/105155.He
was aged 20 when he joined HMS Seagull September 1940 and was part of
the crew until April 1944.He then joined a brand new Loch class
frigate HMS Scavaig K648 after some time in European waters he sailed
to the far east with her and was on this ship for some time. While in
the far east he also served on a LCT and a salvage ship leaving the
service in 1953. After some time in the merchant service on tankers he
then joined the crew of the cable ship St Margaret's. Now aged 87 he
and his wife live in the outskirts of Plymouth
Source: Rodney Trudgeon Dec 2007 |
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Gordon |
D L |
|
|
1950 |
|
|
|
Greggs |
|
Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Gregory |
|
Chief Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
de Halpert |
M F |
Sub Lt |
|
6.10.39 |
|
Navy List for Dec 1939 |
|
Halson |
Anthony E |
AB/L.Sea
SR3/SR2 |
|
Sept '48 to Paying Off 1951 |
|
I joined, Seagull as a newly qualified SR3, along with AB Sharky
Ward, from the Survey Training Unit, Chatham, run by Lt. Cmdr Steve
Ritchie: we were the second class to graduate from the unit.
Though nominally drafted to Seagull, we were sent from Chatham
to Whitehaven, Cumbria, to join MFV 1189 and two Survey Motor
Launches (converted MGB's). We spent four months in the Solway Firth
carrying out Tidal Stream Observations for the Disposal Pipeline to
be built out to sea carrying waste water from the Atomic Energy
plant under construction at Sellafield on the Cumbrian coast.
On completion, MFV1189 returned to Devonport: Sharky and I joined
'Seagull. She was employed in the Bristol Channel, mainly sweeping
for wrecks, of which there were plenty. Recreation and replenishing
was at Swansea, Cardiff and on one occasion, Avonmouth.
In mid-December, the end of the surveying season, we returned to
Devonport for refit and chart draughting until March 1950. During
that period I qualified as Leading Seaman and was promoted soon
after as Devonport's roster was nearly dry.
The 1950 surveying season ( Seagull's last } was spent surveying in
and around Torbay (Bolt Tail to Paignton). What a glorious finale!
|
|
Harries |
David Hugh |
Cdr (RAN) |
|
3.7.39 - 9.40 |
|
Navy List for Dec 1939
Australian Dictionary of Biography |
|
Hawkens |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Hennessey |
S J |
|
|
1948 |
|
|
|
Hodges |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Cornwall
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Honour |
|
Ldg Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Ilott |
Eric W |
Sto/Mech 1 |
DKX 730123 |
1943-45 |
|
When I joined her we
were sweeping from Belgium all along the coast right up to the Dutch
Island of Texel and as the Germans were leaving we got closer to the
coast and instead of returning to Margate and safe anchorage we
anchored off Ostend for a couple of nights in quiet mode & no lights
with lookouts posted but to no avail we lost a Dan Layer each night
after which needless to say we resumed safe anchorage at Margate.
Also one day an armada
of ships appeared including Monitors Lord Roberts & Erebus the Buzz
was we were going to sweep a passage to the Walcheren Islands--
but the next morning
the Armada had gone, apparently another Flotilla got the job, lucky
for us unlucky for them.
Shortly after we got
the job to proceed up the River Maas presumably to see if it was
clear of mines, luckily for us it was, when we arrived at Rotterdam
the port was in a right mess the cranes were destroyed and also the
oil tanks were on fire. About 10 yrs ago whilst visiting some
friends, we were introduced to their friends and we got talking
about the war and Holland it turned out one of the gentlemen had
actually worked on Seagull whilst it was at Rotterdam a chance
meeting of one in a million
Source: Eric Ilott Sept 2007 |
|
Ingroville |
|
Coxswain |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Jarvis |
|
CERA |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
Jones
|
Peter Morgan |
Lt |
|
17.2.41 - 20.5.41 |
|
www.unithistories.com |
|
Kitchen |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Cornwall
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Knowles |
George |
|
|
1.42 - 1.43 |
|
Source: Roger Knowles (son)
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Lidgely |
J R |
Tempy Lt |
|
7.12.42 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Lowry |
C C |
|
|
1949 |
|
|
|
Malins |
C W |
Lt |
|
3.5.38 |
|
Navy List for Dec 1939 |
|
Mann |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Marsden |
Herbert |
|
D/JX509272 |
1943 |
|
Sketch by A Stroud, Polyarnoe, USSR,
20 November 1943
Source: Philip Marsden - grandson |
|
McDonald |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Bristol
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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McGurk |
James |
Stoker |
|
|
|
Name: James McGurk
D.O.B: 26/2/1914
Position: Stoker
Medals: Won a few medals one of which was a gold medal from Russia
that he received in the last few years.
It would be much appreciated if you add his name to the list as his
birthday is coming up and I am sure he would love to see his name on
the list, especially as today he still talks of his sad memories of
seeing lots of young lads dying, and of being the last in on D-Day.
Source: Stephen Agnew Feb 2009 |
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McVeigh |
F W |
Tempy Sub Lt |
|
17.5.44 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Merchant |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Bristol
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Morton |
|
Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Norriss |
L |
Tempy Wt Eng |
|
24.11.42 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
O'Donnells |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From S. Ireland
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
O'Neil |
|
Ldg Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Owens |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Bristol
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Pattenmore |
|
Steward |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Pearson |
A |
Lt Cdr |
|
13.2.45 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Peebles |
Jimmy |
PO Stoker |
|
|
|
I believe he came from Ireland.
Source: Eric Ilott
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Philipson |
James |
Lt |
|
1942 |
|
‘PQ17’ by Godfrey Winn |
|
Pollock |
Charles Harington |
Lt Cdr |
|
10.8.41 - 6.43 |
|
Mention in Despatches - London Gazette No. 35495 of 24th March 1942
http://www.unithistories.com/ |
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Rendle |
|
Officers Cook |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Rotheray |
S A |
Tempy Sub Lt |
|
Mar 44 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Silvestor |
|
Seaman |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Spry |
|
Cook |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
|
Stokes |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Bristol
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Stroud |
Albert |
Signalman |
|
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|
The sketch of Herbert Marsden was drawn by my father Albert Stroud,
a signalman on Seagull. He is alive and well and will soon celebrate
his 87th birthday. He has kept all of his drawings over the years (
except this one of course ) and has a small sketch pad amongst other
things showing some of his shipmates.
He still paints and has always had a natural talent for this. Dad
was pleased to see to his sketch again and amazed at the power of
the internet.
Graham Stroud October 2008
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Taylor |
Ronald H |
Stoker |
|
8.44-1947 |
|
Source : Kenneth Taylor (Son) |
|
Toogood |
|
Stoker |
|
|
|
From Bristol
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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Walker |
Albert |
|
|
|
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He used to imitate Donald Duck I
believe he was a stoker also. Source: Eric Ilott |
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Watson |
Philip |
(Later Vice Admiral) |
|
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|
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gpeat/index-page6.html |
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Whiteman |
Earnest Ivor |
Chief Stoker PO |
|
1944 |
|
Clive Whiteman (son) |
|
Williamson |
W G B |
Tempy Lt |
|
4.6.45 |
|
Navy List for July 1945 |
|
Wright |
|
Ldg Stoker |
|
|
|
Source: William Glover/Rodney Trudgeon |
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