On 2nd October 1942 my father was serving on the British Light Cruiser HMS Curacoa. She was escorting the Queen Mary, which was carrying 15,000 United States troops onboard, and sailing ahead of her.

It was 1942 and I was 22 years old and a Seaman in the Merchant Navy on the Queen Mary. We were returning to Glasgow from New York, which was a four / five day journey. The Queen Mary was carrying ...

In October 1942, the largest troopship in the world cut a Royal Navy cruiser in half. RMS Queen Mary was carrying more than 10,000 American troops across the Atlantic at nearly 29 knots, zigzagging ...

HMS Curacoa. This image was provided by www.roll-of-honour.com where you can read more details of this amazing incident. Six weeks after Eagle was lost, on October 2nd 1942, there occurred one of the ...