Keep all your old shipmates and pals/oppos up to date as to what you have been doing since leaving the service.A brief resume or a book, no matter. Submit details, with a photo, if you wish. Hopefully you may find some long lost oppos.

A Matelot is not born, he is made out of leftovers! God built the world and the animals and then recycled the gash to create this dastardly weapon.

A modern warship is a complex and highly sophisticated creation. To operate such a ship successfully requires a wide diversity of talent:

Laid down in March 1926 as one of four County-class cruisers, Devonshire was built at the South Yard of Devonport Royal Dockyard, and she was launched at midday on Sunday 23 October 1927 by Lady Elizabeth Mildmay, the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Devon, who broke a bottle of Devonshire cider over the bows of the new cruiser.

Our ship is the seventh to bear the name. It is thought that the name was introduced into the Navy in honour of the Cavendish family who first held the Earldoms of Devonshire and Cavendish at the time of the original launch.

S.O.S from S S Empire Patrol
All Ships; “31 degrees 56 Minutes North 32 degrees 04 Minutes east…ship on fire stem to stern taking to boats”

It was 1945. The hostilities in Europe had just ended and we were hurrying out to help to finish off the war in the Far East. I was serving onboard HMS Devonshire a heavy cruiser, a greyhound of the ocean as cruisers were oftimes named.

Alex McCleod-Bain 1944-45.
I served on Devonshire from February 1944 till the time in 1945 when it was being sent to Australia to bring troops back home.

Drum beats of doom. Or just the fortunes of war.
Talk of HMS Devonshire and the “Curse of Drake’s Drum” leaves George Harkcom cold.

“I enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943 and when I was 17 joined my first ship H.M.S. Devonshire in Scapa Flow. Devonshire was by then a rather long in the tooth 10,000-ton cruiser with a main armament of 8-inch guns".