241526 Torp. Angela "Scotty" Vaghi Women's Royal Naval Service from:Edinburgh My mother, Angela Vaghi, joined the Wrens in 1941 at the age of 18. She volunteered to be in the first group of women in the Naval Service to undertake men's work and became a Torpedo Wren working on servicing and replenishing torpedoes and depth charges on the ships escorting the Atlantic convoys. She was based in Larne in Northern Ireland. The attraction, she said, was that they received sixpence a day danger money and were issued with men's uniforms to preserve their modesty when clambering around ships and submarines.
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