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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Oldhasbeen on Wednesday 25 October 23 09:48 BST (UK)
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Hi
I'm trying to make sense of my father's WW2 naval record.
Dad told me he'd been on two ships, the second of which was "The Grey Goose", but there are 16 ship entries on his naval record.
Starting with the "Grey Goose":
The column "Name of Ship (Tenders to be inserted in brackets)" contains the following entries
- Boscawen (Grey Goose)
Lynx (Grey Goose)
Attack (Grey Goose)
Pembroke J (Grey Goose)
Could anyone explain this to me?
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Boscawen, Lynx, Attack, and Pembroke were all shore establishments.
Presumably Grey Goose was used as a tender (a support vessel ) for those shore establishments at various times.
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Boscawen, Lynx, Attack, and Pembroke were all shore establishments.
Presumably Grey Goose was used as a tender (a support vessel ) for those shore establishments at various times.
Thank you. Very helpful.
Googling "HMS Boscawen", I found it was at Portland, which I heard my father talk about - and not in flattering terms. He said that servicemen often referred to Portland Bill as "the a***hole" of England"
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Where it states “(Tenders to be inserted in brackets)” take that to mean the actual ship he was serving on. The names on the left are the parent accounting [shore] bases where the ships account was held. GREY GOOSE was actually HMS GREY GOOSE ex-Steam Gunboat 9 (SGB9) so not a tender but an actual sea-going ship.
SGB-9 was built in 1942 and took part in the Dieppe Raid. She was renamed GREY GOOSE in 1943. In 2007, she was a houseboat still in private hands.
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/s-309-fast-patrol-boat-grey-goose.247628/
Regards
Hugh
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Hampshire Telegraph, 6 Feb 1948
I wonder if Peter Scott had a hand in naming SGB-9 "Grey Goose"?