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    Default Re: SS Kalev Arctic Convoys & Normandy Campaign

    Thanks Alan, never heard of them before. I'll surely give it a try!

    Cheers

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    Default Re: SS Kalev Arctic Convoys & Normandy Campaign

    I have searched my Arctic Convoy database which identifies every merchant ship which sailed in convoy to or from north Russian and can confirm the KALEV did not take part.

    There was an Estonian submarine KALEV taken over by the Soviet Navy in September 1940 with five of her original crew who trained the new Russian crew then left- details not known. Is there some connection here?

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    Default Re: SS Kalev Arctic Convoys & Normandy Campaign

    For further info on SS Kalev see Warsailors.com :: Ship Forum :: SS KALEV

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    #1 Denis welcome to your posts, couldn’t help noticing your fishing vessel. Thought it looked familiar and realised I saw it every day on my fisherman’s friends packets. Feel sure you are probably on the right site to find your answers , best of Luck
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    Default Re: SS Kalev Arctic Convoys & Normandy Campaign

    Dear WG Smith, thank you so much for your efforts! (sorry, was not online too much in the past few days),

    I've also came to draw the conclusion, that the KALEV wasn't on any convoy to Russia. From the records I have, I am now thinking that my Grandfather might have sailed to Russia with some convoy on another vessel. I came up with this idea because the KALEV had at least 2 rather long "repairs", and I therefore thought he might have been assigned to another vessel. However, his Certificate of Discharge does not mention any other vessel during the times of those repairs.

    So the search goes on... (knowing that all I have is the Russian Jubilee Medal he received, as well as what I recall from oral info. At least the Medal must have some reason and that's "currently" my main focus, to find out why they had his name and/or why they gave him that medal)

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    There was an Estonian submarine KALEV taken over by the Soviet Navy in September 1940 with five of her original crew who trained the new Russian crew then left- details not known. Is there some connection here?[/QUOTE]

    I honestly don't know much about the submarine you're referring to. I've come across it numerous times, in fact I know the names "Kalev" and "Lembit" off my mind from all my internet research and when ever they come up, I simply skip the hit, as those names always pop up when ever I'm searching something...

    But NO, they're not related at all, they just share the same name, it was a mine laying submarine called the Kalev-class.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EML_Kalev_(1936)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalev-class_submarine

    Thanks again!

    Cheers

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    Yes, I know this site, in fact, the gent who posted it, was the son of a sailor who had sailed on the Kalev (before my Grandfather's time), and later perished when the SS Induna was sunk on PQ13.

    I posted about it here: https://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/...09=#post375391


    (I was referring to #13 from WG Smith: For further info on SS Kalev see Warsailors.com :: Ship Forum :: SS KALEV )
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    Default Re: SS Kalev Arctic Convoys & Normandy Campaign

    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    #1 Denis welcome to your posts, couldn’t help noticing your fishing vessel. Thought it looked familiar and realised I saw it every day on my fisherman’s friends packets. Feel sure you are probably on the right site to find your answers , best of Luck
    JS
    Haha,

    I decided to use that because it reminds me of my Grandfather every time I see a fisherman's friends packet. He always said "a bottle of scotch, a pouch of Drum tobacco and a packet of fisherman's friends a day - keeps the doctor away!" (He passed away at age 84)

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    #17 With time that saying got a bit more and it became Rum. Bum and baccy. Your grandfather was a gentleman. I am almost a year older I hope he gave up the baccy before it got too late. I was just saying today to the wife I’m pleased today I don’t have to go to a tailor to get measured for a suit as wouldn’t know how to answer that awkward question “ which side do you dress sir “ would have to plump for the middle , when I told the wife this. She said she didn’t notice anything different which further upset me . Hope you can see the funny side of life.Cheers JS. Have just come in from bingo still didnt win anything . JS.
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    You could of course be like some of those queens at sea.
    They could make it dissapear in a flash
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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    #19 would prefer it to be like the magic lamp and genii would appear when rubbed , the lamp that is .JS
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