Sponsor Message The other ordinary seaman, Chavez Roque, nearly as tall as Esteban and even darker skinned, looked older than his twenty years, his cleft chin swarthy, chest hair brimming up ...

HMS Bedfordshire, a converted fishing trawler, became one of the many casualties in the battle for the Atlantic during World War II. In 1941, Allied ships were under constant attack from German U ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Teddy Sheean was 27 days short of his 19th birthday, a mere ordinary seaman on the corvette HMAS Armidale, when he made the decision ...

He was on mine sweepers, which is much more of a defensive than offensive part of the Royal Navy so, when they were attacked the ordinary seaman could to little as the ships were not well armed.