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Re: HMS WAYLAND
Posted by:
Kevin
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Date: January 20, 2008 04:07PM
My father, Jack Vernon Sankey, served on HMS Wayland as Leading Stoker during WWII. He sailed on the Wayland (it may have been under merchant navy command at the time) from Greenoch in Jan 1942. At Gibralter she joined a naval flotila (and it may have been at this time she transferred to RN control). She went on to serve in several theatres of war; my father recorded the points it stopped at as follows, after Gibralter: Freetown, Capetown, Simonstown, Durban, Mombassa, Kilindini, Aden, Port Tuefik, Suez Canal, Port Said, Alexandria (where the ship came under air attack), Malta, Bizerta, Ferryville, Tunis Bay, (at some point they joined the allied invasion fleet for the landings at Palermo but noone from the ship went ashore in Sicily), Alexandria, Port Said, Suez Canal, Port Tuefik, Bombay, Trincomalee, Burma (where the ship dropped special forces), Singapore (where the ship was part of the fleet that went to accept the Japanese surrender), Bombay. My father left the Wayland then and retruned to the UK as a member of the crew of the SS Queen of Bermuda.