I am writing this story on behalf of my father Thomas Bannerman who was a " Pom-Pom " gunner on HMS Dorsetshire when it was attacked and sunk by the Japanese planes off the coast of Ceylon. They had ...

Colombo, November 21: HMS Trincomalee: Built in 1817 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. and the oldest Royal Navy ship afloat (HMS Victory although 52 years older is in a dry dock). She is ...

After a little more than a year since having left dockyard hands in the United Kingdom, with a lot of mileage covered in a very busy time since the commencement of 1944, Ceylon was by September very ...

The year was 1942 and my father was 19 years old. As an Able Seaman, he had set sail from Wallsend on the Tyne on board HMS Dorsetshire. They docked in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). On Saturday 4 ...