SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD
Full Name Richard Willis (deceased)
Discharge Book Number R205792
Department Engine Room
Your Rank/Rating Fireman & Trimmer
Which Ships were you on and When Tewkesbury - 1940-41
Cable Ships 1944 - 1947:
HMS Ubiquity
HMS Latimer
HMS Algerian
HMS Lasso
S/S Calvin Coggin 1947
S/S Empress of Scotland 1947
S/S Rondo 1948
S/S Deeness 1948
S/S Queensland 1948; 1966 - 1970
S/S Norman Queen 1948
S/S Ardgantock 1948-1949
S/S Ficus 1949 -1950
M/V Nuttallia 1950-1951
Cardiff Brook 1962 - 1963, 1964 -1965
M/V Greenland 1963 - 1964
S/S Charles H Merz 1965 - 1966
M/V British Willow 1970
M/V Pulborough 1970
M/V Wadhurst 1970 - 1972
Notes: Dad joined the MN as a mess room boy on the Tewkesbury just before he was 15. He joined at his home town of Blyth, Northumberland.
He was on HMS Lasso at Heligoland when the German fortifications were destroyed in 1947.