Interview with William Yeardsley about his service in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War
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Date(s): 21 September 2006
Creator(s): Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, Age Exchange, Liverpool Culture Company & Age Concern Liverpool
Scope & Content: William Yeardsley talks to Rebecca Jane Ross-Williams about his service in the Merchant Navy. He talks about joining the Royal Navy as a cadet; HMS 'Conway'; the Marquess of Anglesey Mansion; Aberdove; ‘Waterbite’ French skiff; Abersoch; Blue Funnel Line; Memnon; India Buildings, Liverpool; Blackwater, Surrey; Gibraltar; typhoon ‘Louise’; Atreus; Harry Sprung; The Witch; Victorious; Murmansk; Bismark; Ulster Queen; Tavistock Street, Dingle; Shanghai; Hong Kong; Breconshire; Glen Line; Kowloon; Polydorus; Autolycus; Benny Brookes; Glasgow; Amsterdam; Panama and Suez Canals; discharge book R556004; Clytoneus; Automedon; Perseus; Bellerophon; Diomed; Jason; Nestor; Glen Fruin; Agapenor; Ajax; Glenshiel; Monmouthshire; Demodocus; Machon; Mentor; Hector; Cyclops; Talthybius; Maron; Ulysses; Pyrrhus; and he mentions the documentary ‘Island at War’.
Administration / Biographical History: The Cruel Sea Project undertook research with Merchant Navy veterans, their families and women whose men were at sea or experienced Liverpool during the Second World War. This included veterans either from the Isle of Man or who worked in the Irish Sea. The Cruel Sea Project was done in partnership with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Age Exchange, Liverpool Culture Company & Age Concern Liverpool. Cruel Sea was a UK national reminiscence project focussing on Second World Merchant Navy veterans.
Language: English
Extent: 37 min. 29 sec.
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0054/21
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