The Wartime Memories Project - The Second War

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HMS Campania HMS Campania D48 was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a refrigerated cargo ship, but was requisitioned by the British Government, completed as an escort carrier with 18 aircraft and a crew compliment of 639. She was launched on the 17th of June 1943, entering service in early 1944. HMS Campania undertook convoy escort and anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and Arctic. In December 1944 her Swordfish aircraft sank the German submarine U-365. After the was she was briefly used as an aircraft-transport before being decommissioned and placed in reserve in December 1945. In 1951 she was used as the Festival of Britain's exhibition ship and in 1952 she became the command ship for Operation Hurricane, the test of the first British atomic bomb on the Monte Bello Islands off western Australia. She was scrapped in Blyth in 1955. List of those who served on HMS Campania during The Second World War Radar Operator George Louis Robertson Read his Story. Radar Operator George Louis Robertson HMS Manchester My Dad, George Louis Robertson served as Radar Operator on the Manchester during Operation Pedestal, he also served on Tartar and Campania. George died in 1978 but I am researching that time of his life. If anyone served with George or served on the ships at the same time could you contact me. Thank you. Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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