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
20 September, 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: