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HMS Pembroke
HMS Pembroke was a Royal Naval shore base at Chatham, it opened in 1903 and closed in 1984. Today the buildings are part of the University of Greenwich, Medway Campus. HMS Pembroke I, II, III, IV and V are accounting bases and will appear on the records of all sailors and wrens whose home base was HMS Pembroke. The person may not have physically been at the location of the base during the dates shown on records, they are often at another port or in transit on a ship to which they were not assigned as crew.
- HMS Pembroke I was an accounting base at Chatham from 1940 to 1960.
- HMS Pembroke II was an accounting base at Chatham from 1940 to 1957.
- HMS Pembroke III was an accounting base at London and various outstations from 1942 to 1952.
- HMS Pembroke IV was an accounting base at the Nore from 1939 to 1961.
- HMS Pembroke V was a secret base at Bletchley Park from 1941 to 1945 and an accounting base in London in 1945/6.
- HMS Pembroke X was the headquarters of the Royal Navy Patrol Service at Lowestoft in 1939/40.
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SPO. Victor Leopold Burnley HMS Pintail (d.10th Jun 1941) My grandfather was Stoker Petty Officer (SPO) Victor Leopold Burnley, aged 34 years old in 1941. Victor was killed on HMS Pintail on the 10th June 1941. He also served on the following ships in 1939 to 1941, HMS Emerald, HMS Pembroke, HMS Sussex.
I have also been able to establish a little more detail about the events around the sinking of HMS Pintail: On 10th June 1941, the Harwich based patrol vessel HMS Pintail was escorting a convoy near 62-Bouy, some 30 miles off the Humber, when steamship Royal Scott detonated an acoustic mine, blew up and sank. Pintail immediately dashed to the scene to help in the rescue, but she was also caught by an acoustic mine close to the steamship. HMS Pintail blew up and was lost almost immediately, instantly killing her CO Lieutenant McClintoch, six officers and 48 ratings. HMS Quantock a destroyer came to the scene and managed to save 22 crew from the water. The location of the ship is 28 miles East south east off Spurn Point.
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AB. Arthur Taylor HMS Ashanti Arthur Taylor served in HMS Pembroke, HMS Ashanti and HMS Drake IV.
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AB. Arthur Richard Wensley HMS Pembroke Arthur Wensley served in the Royal Navy as a Gunner.
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Stkr. William George Acourt DCM. HMS Pembroke My dad, William Acourt was a blacksmith striker, and was a stoker on HMS Pembroke 16th of November 1942 to 14th of January 1943. I'm trying to understand his work in the Royal Navy.
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Able Sea Thomas Joseph Davies HMS Copra From my father, Thomas Davies's Certificate of Service he was on: HMS Glendower from 9 Nov 1942 to 25th Jan 1943,
Pembroke from 26 Jan 1943 to 13 Feb 1943,
Dinosaur from 14 Feb 1943 to 31 Aug 1943,
Copra from 1 Sept 1943 to 8 Nov 1943,
Copra as Able seaman from 9 Nov 1943 to 20 Nov 1945,
Pembroke from 21 Nov 1945 to 11 Jan 1946,
Owl (Term II) from 12 Jan 1946 to 3 Feb 1946 and
Pembroke from 4 Feb 1946 to 19 Jun 1946.
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PO. Sidney James Harber HMS Pembroke My father, Sidney Harber enlisted as an Air Fitter and served in HMS Pembroke, Gosling, Daudaleus, Lanka, Highflyer and Bambara.
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PO. William Henry Pearson H.M.S. Pembroke William Pearson was a PO Stoker.
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OA3. William Frederick Stevenson HMS Wildfire   My dad William Stevenson told me a story when he was a chief gunner on the many ships he was based on. He told me how he was on HMS Pembroke and he was stationed in Chatham doing his training. He was wearing shorts one day during the summer when I joked about his hot legs laughingly. When I noticed he had scars all down one leg and a bit on the other. It was then I found the pivotal moment when he began to tell me his terrifying moment they were under attack. He said they were firing above at the planes and trying to avoid getting torpedoed from the sea Subs and U boats. But he said he remembered a cry of "incoming torpedo". Dad said he was pushed and as their boat sank he was in the water in pain and hearing his fellow comrades screaming for help.
He adds there was fire on the water but when I asked where he was, what ship he was on and the country, he shut down and wouldn't say any more.
Checking his list of ships he was on HMS Tyne and HMS Wildfire III. To name a few.
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Able Sea. John Robert Rice HMS Valkyrie John Rice served on HMS Pembroke and HMS Valkyrie.
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Able Sea. Albert Thomas Howles HMS Ocean Albert Thomas Howles was my father. According to his certificate of service he was on HMS Pembroke 2nd of October 1943 to 23rd of January 1944, as an ordinary seaman and then returned 25th May 1944 to 14th of November 1944 and as an able seaman.
Unfortunately my father is no longer with us and I do not have any stories to tell. Wish I had encouraged him to talk about his navy days.
HMS Boscawen (Blyth) and HMS Ocean.
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Stkr. David John Bate HMS Pembroke David Bate possibly commissioned his ship in Buckie, Scotland. He sailed to Siam and carried out mine sweeping duties there and called in at Egypt and he visited the Sphinx and Pyramids.
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Valentine Wilkinson HMS Pembroke Valentine Wilkinson served in HMS Pembroke during WW2.
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Able Sea. Geoffrey Charles "Bill" Bayley HMS Pembroke HMS Quebec HMS Copra HMS Ganges My dad, Geoffrey Bayley joined the Royal Navy at 18, on 17th of August 1942. His first ship was HMS Ganges, then he went to HMS Pembroke for a couple of weeks. He went on to have three more postings with the Pembroke, in between those dates he also served on six more ships, HMS Copra, HMS Rajah and HMS Quebec were amongst them. left the Royal Navy 30th of June 1946.
Dad was very proud of the Royal Navy and being part of the War effort.
The information I have given is from his Certificate of Service.
His Port Division was Chatham.
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Stkr. Alfred Frederick Mudd HMS Cabot My Father Bert Mudd served in the Royal Navy from the 3rd of Novemver 1942 to his release on 24th Oct 1946.
He was a stoker on a variety of ships including HMS Royal Arthur, HMS Cabot, the HMS Cleopatra, HMS Pembroke and finally HMS Lochinvar.
As of today, he is a 97 year old veteran living in his own house in London.
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