Hello and WW1 help

[Donald Power]

Hi, thanks for your mail.
I have heard about Janice Blower so when I was in South Shields a couple years ago I called into the Gazette office and made a few inquiries but the front desk was no help at all. I haven't looked a Janice's column for quite a while, but I might check it out again. My Mam used to live on the Sutton Estate so my local was the White Horse but I reckon I've been in most of the pubs in the town.

Regards Don

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Thanks for your mail Hugh.
I've looked a the archives using the info you sent me, I also registered. I seemed to going around in circles a bit but I'm sure if I read the instructions I'll get it right.
Regards Don

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Thanks DeepSea and Keith.
That is correct. My father was born in Jan 1902 in Byker which would come under the registration district of Newcastle. If you have a photo of him I would be pleased to see it. He eventually sailed on through to the second world war, the latter part serving on the rescue tug HMS Seaman.
Regards Don

[cappy]

Hi, thanks for your mail.
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Regards Don

######don i believe john arton on the site also his father was on rescue tugs no doubt he will come on site and see this regards cappy ps did you emigrate or skin out ......suppose you went to my school redwell or cleadon park...regards cappy

[John Arton]

Thanks DeepSea and Keith.
That is correct. My father was born in Jan 1902 in Byker which would come under the registration district of Newcastle. If you have a photo of him I would be pleased to see it. He eventually sailed on through to the second world war, the latter part serving on the rescue tug HMS Seaman.
Regards Don
Don
My father served on rescue tugs throughout the war and was stationed in such widely spread parts as Harwich, Kenya, Hong Kong, USA. He was Captain on,
HMRT St. OLaves, HMRT Salvonia, HMRT Prudent. I have tried to obtain the "services" (as the admiralty called them) that he rendered on those ships but to date have had very little success but somewhere in the back of my mind there is the thought that at one time there was a posting that gave the address of where the Admiralty stored all those records.
There used to be a Deep Sea Rescue tug Association web site but the U.K. branch closed down a number of years ago and if you search the web for Deep Sea Rescue tugs it leads you to a USA web site concerning the American rescue tug association.
My father died when I was young so I never got a chance to talk to him about his sea going career. He started off in Blue Star line, went to the tugs during the War and after the war went into Salvage tugs with Overseas Towing and Blands of Gibraltar (where we lived for a couple of years) before going back to Blue Star line where he died on board when his ship was departing Durban.
I have one or two snippets of information regarding services he rendered to ships during the war such as a report on the S.S. Leadenhall that ran aground on departing Loch Ewe on an west bound convoy and I know he was involved in the towing over of the Mulberry Harbours but beyond that very little. I too tried the National Archives but came to no luck there as they did not even reply to a request I sent them years ago for a quote on the cost of getting his CRS card. I keep on trying to obtain more information but keep hitting a brick wall but will keep on non the less.
As an aside the White Horse was my local for a number of years up to about 8 years ago until we moved and there was a Doctor Power at my local G.P.'s practise, not a distant relation by any chance?
rgds
JA

[DeepSea]

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Joseph-Power.jpg

[DeepSea]

Do you know the name of the ship he was serving on when he died and which year. If it was before the end of 1949, I should have his entry in the Deaths at Sea Register if you know the name of the ship.

[Donald Power]

Thanks Deepsea for that photo, it's not one I've seen . I have very few early pictures. I do have some early discharge papers that I'll have to sought out. My father died in 1957 at the young age of 55 years after being ill for some time.
Don

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Thanks John for your post.
I think it must have been 1953 when I was last in the White Horse. The new management had made a lot of changes, our darts and dominoes had gone from the bar. I hadn't seen it for 13 years so it was a bit of a shock, I hope they changed it back. No doctors in the family that I know of.
Don

[Donald Power]

Cappy.
Yes I emigrated to Australia in 1970. Cleadon Park was my school, I left in Feb 1951 and the headmaster was Mr Newby.
Don

[Donald Power]

Thanks Hugh for pointing me in the right direction, I received my crew list for the SS Trevose from the archives last Friday and my father was there.

Don Power

[Hugh]

Nice one Don.

Regards
Hugh