In Memorium

Shipmates who have crossed the bar

  • S/M Brynmor Morgan D/JX188275 A/B 16/12/1912 - 
  • S/M Fred Walker associate 14/12/1918 -
  • S/M Tom Samson L/FX76246 C.P.O A.F.A 14/09/1917 -
  • S/M Ron Howells associate 02/09/1927 - 08/08/1992
  • S/M Ken Hood P/JX415100 Telegraphist 21/09/1924 - 14/11/1992
  • S/M Stanley Berry DKX93508 C.P.O 02/07/1917 - 29/12/1992
  • S/M Frank Wallwork D/JX358541 31/01/1924 - 31/12/1992
  • S/M George Mercer 371515 A/B 10/07/1923 - 07/02/1993
  • S/M Frank Crossley DKX126715 L/STD 11/09/1916 - 17/06/1993
  • S/M Robert Heggie 04/09/1926 - 25/10/1993
  • S/M Enoch Kenyon P/JX519749 A/B 11/12/1925 - 20/11/1993
  • S/M James Hinks FX589832 Air Mechanic 14/07/1925 - 14/12/1995
  • S/M Albert Williamson P/JX168217 A/B 11/10/1918 - 02/05/1997
  • S/M William Billinge D/MX85190 L/Cook 27/09/1921 - 04/08/1998
  • S/M Lance Wardle P/JX547357 A/B 26/11/1925 - 13/01/1999
  • S/M Albert Williamson D/JX394053 A/B 23/08/1923 - 18/09/2001
  • S/M Gordon Allum FX573429 L/Air Elect 22/02/1926 - 08/05/2007
  • S/M Kenneth Thompson C/JX359184 Signalman 06/02/1923 - 01/08/2007
  • S/M Ellis Bailey FX684715 08/12/1925 - 20/11/2007
  • S/M Thomas Kelly (founder member) 07/02/1927 - 31/08/2008
  • S/M Stanley Wood P/KX596844 L/Stoker 18/03/1925 - 11/03/2009
  • S/M William Woodward D/JX155057 L/S 21/11/1921 - 2009
  • S/M William Fitton D/JX368277 A/B 28/02/1923 - 23/03/2011
  • S/M Richard Pritchard D/FX29138 L/S 23/12/1921 - 13/11/2011
  • S/M Ellis Hall C/JX290044 DEMS rating 13/11/1921 - 17/04/2012
  • S/M Kevin Rushton associate 20/08/1935 - 06/05/2013
  • S/M James Pendlebury combined ops 02/11/1920 - 10/10/2013
  • S/M Peter Woods P/JX714789 telegraphist 24/08/1924 - 20/10/2014
  • S/M Arthur Barlow D/JX362058 A/B 21/06/1920 - 17/10/2014
  • S/M Harry Ball JX532687 A/B 25/03/1923 - 26/11/2014
  • S/M John Simpson D/JX396009 A/B 28/06/1924 - 21/08/2015
  • S/M Frank Iddon P/JX821416 A/B 10/12/1923 - 06/03/2016
  • S/M Bernard Cragan P/JX633536 P/O 23/01/1925 - 01/12/2016
  • S/M Ernest Roberts P/JX679843 A/B 26/04/1926 - 17/09/2017
  • S/M Geoff Flemming 2019
  • S/M Robert (Bob) Houghton DK977251 L/stoker 26/04/1942 - 31/08/2021
  • S/M James (Jim) Black PJ979243 A/B 12/06/1942 - 09/10/2022
  • S/M Kathleen (Kay) Turner W621335 VAD RN 08/012024

Crossing The Bar Poem

Sunset and evening star,

And one clear call for me,

And may there be no moaning of the bar,

When I put out to sea. 

 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,

Too full for sound and foam,

When that which drew from out the boundless deep,

Turns again home.

 

Twilight and evening bell,

And after that the dark,

And may there be no sadness of farewell,

When I embark.

 

For tho’ from out our bourne of time and place,

The flood may bear me for,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face,

When I have crossed the bar.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

 

In Waters Deep

In ocean wastes no poppies blow,

No crosses stand in ordered row,

Their young hearts sleep beneath the wave,

The spirited, the good, the brave,

But stars a constant vigil keep,

For those who lie beneath the deep.

 

Tiz true you cannot kneel in prayer,

On certain spot and think “he’s there”,

But you can to the ocean go,

See white caps marching row on row,

Know one for him will always ride,

In and out with every tide.

 

And when your span of life is passed,

He’ll meet you at the “Captains Mast”,

And they who mourne on distant shore,

For sailors who’ll come home no more,

Can dry their tears and pray for these,

Who rest beneath the heaving seas.

 

For stars that shine and winds that blow,

And white caps marching row on row,

And they can never lonely be,

For when they lived they chose the sea.


Eileen Mahoney