211788 Able Sea. Maurice Leslie Drury Royal Navy HMS Cyclops from:Trelwaney, New Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex In August 1944 my mother, Ivy, took my brother and I to spend a month at Rothsay while my father, Maurice Drury, was a member of the crew of HMS Cyclops, then moored in the Bay. I was only seven years old but do remember going aboard the ship for a religious service, and afterwards being shown (what I now think will have been 4") shells in lockers on deck. After that my brother and I were taken aboard a submarine moored alongside. We were not able to visit the torpedo compartment (where my father, a Torpedo man, presumably frequently worked) as the crew were sleeping there before setting off on their next patrol. I also remember seeing the Cyclops from the shore with varying numbers of submarines moored alongside.
According to his Certificate of Service, Maurice served on Cyclops from 8th September 1943 to 8th October 1945.
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