216975 Able.Sea. Philip Rayment Royal Navy HMS Nigeria I have three photographs of HMS Nigeria on which my father, Philip
Rayment served as a torpedo rating from 1942 till the end of the war.
He experienced some good times and bad times on the ship, and often spoke
fondly of the family he stayed with in Charleston while the ship was being
repaired. He kept in touch with them and visited them in the '80s and the
local paper made a big thing of it.
He also spoke of how some of the crew swapped their billeting arrangements
to be with their mates, some were lucky and others were obviously very
unlucky on the 12th August. He also said that the Spanish shipyard workers
at Gibraltar were very reluctant to go on board upon its return as there
were dead bodies on board.
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