Bill Caldwell was 18 and in his first week of training at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint, Cornwall, when he wrote saying he was "in blue at last". Mr Caldwell's adult children have seen the postcard for ...

Mr Brown, who lives in Aintree Village with wife Joan, said: “And to think, all these years later, HMS Liverpool came back to the city again.” Tobruk was a vital port during World War II which ...

Meanwhile, just under a year after HMS Hood sailed from Liverpool without my uncle ... My uncle saw out the remainder of WW2 on board a variety of ships (including HMS Royal Sovereign, HMS ...

A month after the onset of WW2, HMS Barham and the other battleships ... torpedoed off the west coast of Scotland. After repairs at Liverpool had been completed, she sailed to Scapa Flow for ...