I can relate a lot of this to the stories my dad, a wireless operator on the minesweepers working around Iceland and Scapa Flow, used to tell me when I was a kid. My dad was Ernest Roy Austin.
Any idea where i might pick a copy of this film on vhs or dvd found it very interesting had family living in Normaston drive although i lived in London would come to Oulton broad as a small boy during the war years regards jim daniel
Thank you for this. My late Father, George Henry Hannah, was a Skipper Lieutenant at Europa, Lowestoft, during WW2, demobbed in 1947. He instructed recruits in minesweeping techniques. This film is amazing.
A wonderful and rare insight into what the men aboad minesweepers did. i am giving this link to my daughters school as she is doing a project on minesweepers.
I can relate a lot of this to the stories my dad, a wireless operator on the minesweepers working around Iceland and Scapa Flow, used to tell me when I was a kid. My dad was Ernest Roy Austin.
philaustinutube 2 years ago
I am fascinated by WW2, This is Great Thankyou, 5 stars *****
GhostWatching 2 years ago
Any idea where i might pick a copy of this film on vhs or dvd found it very interesting had family living in Normaston drive although i lived in London would come to Oulton broad as a small boy during the war years regards jim daniel
pricecrack 3 years ago
Thank you for this. My late Father, George Henry Hannah, was a Skipper Lieutenant at Europa, Lowestoft, during WW2, demobbed in 1947. He instructed recruits in minesweeping techniques. This film is amazing.
Pitcairn2 3 years ago
Fist time I have seen this film. My Dad was prob. one of the sailors going to the Sparrows Nest.
Arty
arty37 3 years ago
A wonderful and rare insight into what the men aboad minesweepers did. i am giving this link to my daughters school as she is doing a project on minesweepers.
thank you
sp01goat 4 years ago 3
Very interesting. I read about this in "Trawlers Go To War". A very unglamorous but vital job.
Thanks.
FSA1990 4 years ago 2