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You've found the right place for details of where to purchase your naval memorabilia. Having previously sent in my slop-chits to the following sources, I can vouch for the quality of the products received as well as the excellent service given. Some of these suppliers are ex Royal Navy and would welcome your custom. I wish to share this experience so that both you and the supplier will benefit.


This is a free service. I have tried to ensure that all details are correct and that they are updated as soon as I'm notified of any changes. However, the Webmaster doesn't accept any responsibility for accuracy of details or any deals between customer & supplier.

 

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RBJ Militaria

Medals, insignia, cap tallies, ship's crests etc.
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Ships Badges

Brass Ships Badges

Specialist (Ex RN) producing high quality hand finished brass ships badges as well as

Technical Ships Drawings.

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HMS Cassandra Association

CRYSTAL GLASSES

With ships crest.

Blazer Badges, Ties, Jumpers, Sweatshirts, Polo Shirts, Pilot Shirts, Jackets etc.

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Peter Erwood

"A Long Night For The Canteen Boat"

(The Torpedoing and Salvage of HMS Cassandra December 11th 1944).

Recollections by former crew members who survived this great ordeal.

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Suppliers of Ship Photo's

Naval and Merchant Ships Photos

Suppliers of ship photographs of Royal Navy and Merchant ships

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A.K. BADGES (Specialist)

Badges

An in-house manufacturer and exporter for over 40 years of Badges, Insignia, Patches, and Uniform Accessories with service around the world. We can also design our products to your specifications.

 

 

'POISONOUS INFERNO'

Dear shipmates,

As a survivor of the Bari Italy tragedy on 2 December 1943, I have recently had my book 'POISONOUS INFERNO' published. During and after a German air raid, described afterwards by the RAF as 'one of the finest executed air operations by the Luftwaffe in that theatre of war to date', seventeen Allied merchant ships were blown up and sunk and liquid mustard gas released into the harbour water causing 2000 casualties. The whole episode was shrouded in secrecy and censored for thirty years and little is known about it even today. On that night, an Allied convoy of twenty-one ships, carrying highly-inflammable fuel and ammunition was bombed by the Luftwaffe as its volatile cargo was being unloaded.

It was a devastating attack and the ships trapped in the overcrowded harbour soon became an exploding mass of burning oil and white hot metal. For many crew, survival from this mayhem was to leap into the harbour waters and pray for rescue. But the rescued and the rescuers did not know that they were immersed in a deadly cocktail of oil and liquid mustard gas. This is the story of that fatal night and its terrible lingering aftermath told by a man who was there.

If you, your shipmates, members and friends are interested, copies of the book can be obtained from all good bookshops, alternatively (discount price) from main book websites which includes brief synopsis.

Captain Robert McQueen RN Ret. CBE Gen Sec RNA reviewed the book....
Once started this book is impossible to put down'.

I am a member of the RBL and Poppy Appeal, Organiser for Scarborough, a member of the RNA, George Cross Island Ass. and an Honorary Citizen of Valletta.

George Southern BEM (Mil)


About the Author:
George Southern served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1946 aboard ships escorting convoys in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. At the time of the Bari tragedy he was a gunlayer on the destroyer HMS Zetland, one of the ill-fated convoy's escort vessels. It was not until a reunion in 1996 that he learned of the mustard gas and that seventeen ships had been lost on that dreadful night. This is the only book to have been published by a survivor, written for the families of the men who did not survive, the many who have passed away since and those few men still alive today.
 

  

 

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"Up Spirits"

For the genuine taste of navy rum I'd like to share this with you
(this is freely given, I get no reward for telling you this)

I get my Pusser's Rum at a bargain price at

I love Master of Malt! - Purchase fine whisky, spirits, wine and beer from Master of Malt!
No "Sandy Bottoms" - just pure nostalgia

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