HMS Jupiter Association: Reunion 2010

[KenWilliams777]

The HMS Jupiter Association AGM & Reunion will take place in Lichfield on September 25th 2010, we will be having a Dedication Ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum at 1130hrs. in memory of the Ship and Crew of the WW2 Destroyer which sank in the Java Sea in 1942. All previous crew of that Ship and also F60 Leander Class Frigate would be very welcome, full information is on the Jupiter web site www.hmsjupiter.co.uk
If anyone knows the whereabouts of any Ships artifacts/phots/memorabilia please let me know for the Ships History Log.

[jupiter]

Hi,

Hello, I am Jupiter's Brother. Hope it is ok to make a posting using my Brother's sccount. See Jupiter's thread here http://www.worldnavalships.com/forum...ead.php?t=8747

I have a letter from my dad (Alex Nisbet AB) to his mother, written while he was recovering in Australia after being injured by shrapnel in a forward 4.7" gun turret on HMS Jupiter after a submarine fired on the ship in response to an order to surrender.

He told me this was when he was injured, but later found himself in the water where he was for some time until picked up by an Australian ship. I only have the surviving pages 3-10 of the letter, the incident being described on page 10.

Does anybody know whether a gunner injured in the submarine attack could still have been on the Jupiter when it sank (I believe it ws Feb. 28th, not 27th)? Or would he have been taken off, and he was later sunk in another ship.

He also served on HMS Vesuvius, but I cannot find any information about thst. Does anyone have anything on the Vesuvius? I though he said it was a destroyer, but I can only find information on a minesweeper of that name, so I might be wrong about the destroyer.

Please contact me at p.meg@techemail.com

Thank you. If anyone is interested, I can forward a scanned version of the letter in a zipped file.