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This is the signal staff Eurylas 1949 P.O.Tibbs dad is on right as you look, Rom
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Here's the ship to go with it on her way up.(or down) the Suez canal in 1941.
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[B]HMS Euryalus was the only Dido class cruiser and the last cruiser to be built at Chatham.[/B] [B]Ken Taylor's Euryalus story[/B]. Ken Taylor joined the Royal Marines at Chatham and started his training. After passing out for sea service training he then proceeded to Chatham Dockyard where sailors and Royal marines boarded a train to Glasgow to join HMS Euryalus at John Browns dockyard where it was in refit. At sea he patrolled from Scapa Flo round off the North Sea until they were called to escort the SS Rimutaka taking the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester to Australia to take up the governorship. “We escorted them round as far as Columbo in what was then known as Ceylon where the New Zealand and Australian navy took over. We then joined the East Indies Fleet where we had a new enemy, the Japanese. Later we joined Admiral Sir Bruce Frazier who was attached to Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific Fleet. We went along side HMS Indomitable, a big aircraft carrier, when she was hit by three Kamikaze planes. Because her flight deck was so badly damaged we took all the bombs off her, steaming along side, and then put them on another carrier 3 days later. Our main task was anti aircraft cover at the edge of the fleet. The enemy saw us first if they came our way. I started off down in the bottom of the ship in the magazine and worked my way up through the guns to the range finder above the bridge. My gunnery officer called me to the bridge one day and said ‘Taylor I understand that you passed the aircraft recognition course with a score of 98 from 100. Forget your other duties, from now on you are on the bridge doing aircraft recognition!’ and that is where I ended up.” The last major action that Ken took part in was the bombardment of Okinawa before the troops landed. He does have another memory which is just as important. Like all his other memories it is accompanied with dates, times and even longitude and latitude. “We were 500 miles from Tokyo off the south east coast of Japan on August the 6th and 9th 1945 when the atom bombs were dropped. It was broadcast over the ship speaker.” After some policing duties in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Fiji the war was officially over and the men were anxious to be demobbed but Ken tells me of one last duty that the men had to perform. “We did have a big victory parade round the biggest race course in the world, Happy Valley Race Course in Hong Kong.” From the fire brigade dealing with German bombs and the Battle of Britain to the North Sea and then to the Pacific to witness the end of the war, Ken Taylor has seen a lot but it doesn’t dampen his cheerfulness and time hasn’t dulled his memory. Today Ken is a member of HMS Euryalus Association and he keeps in touch with some crew members by telephone and letters. Once a year there is a formal dinner/reunion in Portsmouth which he attends where a lot of reminiscing takes place. He also attends a memorial in August at Margate Holy Trinity Church for VJ Day and afterwards has a drink with members of the Burma Star Association and former sailors and Royal Marines — a few from HMS Argonaut, another Dido class cruiser which Ken also served on during WW2.

Thanks Bats but the bottom one is the Tiger if not mistaken Rom

Bob, have you a larger version of your EURYALUS pic ? Rik

The Tiger is Bob's permanent sig pic. The story I put up, was to show what Euryalus had been doing during the war years as seen through the eyes of a crew member. I found it interesting to read.

Rik, I have that one in all shapes and sizes. Bear with me and I will post them On second thoughts if you look at my gallery on SP they are all there, or would you rather me to email them? Bob.

[QUOTE=The Sailor;2808]The Tiger is Bob's permanent sig pic. The story I put up, was to show what Euryalus had been doing during the war years as seen through the eyes of a crew member. I found it interesting to read.[/QUOTE] I gathered that now thanks for the kick cheers Rom:o

What page on SP Bob ?

This should get you there Rik. [url]http://www.servicepals.com/index.cfm/pcms/site.gallery.member_gallery/obj_ID/2746/page/2/[/url]

A lot of the GALLERY threads seemed to have been forgotten over the last 2 years, so thought I'd re-activate this one, now that we have a load of new members. Can anyone add to this thread on the cruiser EURYALUS ?

Actually after looking at this thread it should not be in the galleries anyway. As it only has a couple of pictures in it should really be in the RN ships section. It is important that the Galleries are kept for just that - photo galleries. However as it is here I will stick a few in to get it started as a gallery. I must admit none of them are particularly good - maybe I have some better ones on my upstairs `puter! As you say maybe one of our newer members can add something...
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Good idea, Terry. Keep the GALLERY threads "Exactly as they say on the tin !!"

I am collecting images of HMS Euryalus for a possible modelling project. I've been in contact with the Euryalus association, trying to find some additional images. I even had a few wonderful telephone calls with an old sailor who saw [I]Littorio[/I] fire at them through his rangefinder at the second battle of the Sirte. It's fascinating to hear the experiences of people describing the events that I've read so much about but are for me in such a distant past. I sent them a lot of photographs, some of which are placed on this site (mainly 1500 pix thread) and wondered why it took them so long to put online (not that this matters though). Today I read on their home page that the association was disbanded due to a lack of volunteers; It's a sad affair that the association has now ceased to exist.

I have recently acquired some photo's taken on HMS Euryalus on the way to and in the med 1941 - 43. Here's one to start. Believe this one was posted home as has censor mark. More information and story later if anyone is interested.
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