Hampshire Link For HMS Glorious, HMS Ardent & HMS Acasta
"Document From The Past" - Index of Pages
Memorial Plaque at HMS Drake, Plymouth
Memorial Information
Document From The Past (pp 1-9)
Document From The Past (pp 10-16)
Document From The Past (pp 17-20 - Appendices I, II, & IV)
Document From The Past (pp 21-23 - Appendices V,VIII & IX)
Document From The Past (page 24 - Glorious log 7)
Question in the House
Answer in the House?
Associated Reading - Books & Web-Sites
Let Us Remember Them
HMS Acasta - My Grandfather's Ship
Air Squadrons Lost - 46, 263 & 802 Squadrons
Plymouth Hoe's Memorial To Our Sailors
Contact Information for HMS Glorious, HMS Ardent & HMS Acast
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Did your relative serve upon or was your relative lost from one of the ships below
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Some Fish
 | Here we have a picture from the HMS Acasta taken in February 1940. HMS Acasta has just sucessfully depth charged a german shoal of fish.
The inscription on the reverse of the photo reads:
"To Alice
Dead Herrings brought to surface in Atlantic by dropping of depth charges to destroy enemy submarine. By H.M.S. Acasta. Feb. 1940"
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Earlier Ships of My Grandfather
 | Here we have a picture of (Victor) Vincent McCullen taken whilst he was training at HMS Excellent, the Gunnery School at Whale Island, Portmouth.
My Grandfather survived the sinking of one of his ships in the First World War, but he had a premonition that he wouldn't survive the Second World War.
He left behind Alice Maud, his wife, and six children: Tony, Maisie (my mother), Timothy, Bernice, James and Paticia.
It was 18 months before they knew that my Grandfather wasn't coming home and my grandmother lived on for 42 years with just his memory.
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Victor Vincent McCullen in a Thoughtful Mood
 | My mother tells me of what little she knows of my grandfather's naval career:
"He was on the guns";
"He served in the Merchant Navy between the wars and only came home every two and a half years, so the children are all aged in two and a half year intervals";
"one night at home we were called upon to see if a young lad from HMS Acasta was around our house as he'd gone off for a drink or two and had made an evening of it. the young lad (Jack Dobson, Leading Signalman P/JX 142850) wasn't there but they found him eventually and he rejoined his family and later his ship". Sadly, Jack went down with the Acasta on June 8th 1940 aged 21.
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Merchant Navy - Between The Wars
 | | Between the wars, my grandfather spent many years in the Merchant Navy, before going into the Royal Navy Reserve (for the princely sum of £100). This picture above was taken on one of his journeys on Sunday 29th December 1931 aboard the RMS Mauretania at La Guayra, Venezuala. |
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Civilian Life - Between The Wars
 | | Here is a picture of my grandfather at the time of the last tram through Southampton's Bargate in 1938. He worked on the tram-lines repairing the tracks and is the short chap wearing wellington boots fourth from the right in the front row. Within a year he was back in the navy; within two... |
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HMS Acasta
 | | Here she is, HMS Acasta (H.09) just before the war. |
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