The
H.M.S. SUPERB (CRUISER) ASSOCIATION
ALL (OR NEARLY ALL) YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE BRITISH NAVY SHIPS NAMED "SUPERB"
Site updated on
1 June, 2021
AUDIO CLIPS
Listen to voices from the past
Simply click on the appropriate button and listen to tales from past shipmates (including a civilian) who were interviewed and recorded by the Imperial War Museum about their time on board HMS Superb. You can also go to the I.W.M. website and listen to a great deal more of each person's history including their experiences on other ships.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SOMETIMES THE CLIPS TAKE A WHILE TO CONNECT
Petty Officer Alan Dunlop speaks of his promotion to Petty Officer; character of leadership course; exercise with Dutch pilots aboard HMS Boxer; South American cruise aboard HMS Superb, 1955
Eric Gow served aboard HMS Veryan Bay and tells a short tale of a fight with crew of HMS Superb over football match at Port Stanley, 25th December, 1954
Able Seaman Leonard Alfred Dunn
served aboard HMS Superb around 1949 & HMS Belfast during Korean War, 1950-1951
Able Seaman William Edward Empson on board in 1952
Petty Officer Eric Smith
British seaman served aboard HMS Ajax in Atlantic, 1938-1940 & HMS Superb
Lieutenant Commander John David Latimer REPARD 1954-55 Cruise
Pat Battley served as ordinary seaman aboard HMS Superb, Home Fleet, 1948-1949; also served aboard HMS Belfast and HMS Diamond,
Robert Fooks was a Leading Seaman & served aboard HMS Superb, 1912-1913 also served on HMS Minotaur, HMS Canada and HMS Sable
Petty Officer Stoker Ted HILL was a Petty Officer Stoker aboard HMS Superb, Eastern Fleet,
1956-1957
Audrey Nichols was a British civilian who worked as a tack welder at Swan Hunter shipyard, Tyneside, GB, 1943-1945
Ordinary Torpedoman Denis Vichion
Recollections of period aboard HMS Superb based at Portland, 9/1947-12/1947: