Hi All,
I'm trying to find photos of Hired and Admiralty Trawler Minesweepers.WW1.My Grandad served on them.He never said to me anything more than he loved the Mornings and Evenings when it was a flat sea not to cloudy and watch the Sunrises and Sunsets off the Irish and English Channel Coastline.When he was on Mine sweepers. He couldn't have mentioned much about his war service as my Mum and Dad never said a thing to me either. Him and I were the best mates. My saddest ,moment was I missed his funeral in 1955 as I was at sea. He didn't mind me being down below as long as I promised to get my combined tickets,which I did. He was master on a Tug Waterloo in Liverpool 1911 census,Then Captain on the "Bramley Moore" Tug from 26th August 1926 till he retired one month after the end of WW2 he was 76 years old and as I said he died in 1955.
The names of the trawlers if some one could help or point me in the right direction are:-
"Frascati", "Sesostris", "Touraco", "Pitfour", "Electra II", and "James Pond". Any help would be most appreciated as my Daughters NZer's as are the 9 G/children and 2 G/G/Children (only littlies).I'm beginning to think I'm getting to "'my best used by date"
as they are giving a bit of the old Heave Ho, Best Regards Ken Berry