Hi guys, a little of topic but since seeing thelions HMS Warspite sig (legend of the sea) it made me think of HMS Caroline she was the ship my great grandpa served on in WW1 and was involved in the battle of Jutland, awesome ship very well known still as she was still in commission up until very recently where she was used as a training vessel in Belfast she was supposed to be moved to Portsmouth alongside HMS Victory as a museum ship but at the last moments the Royal Navy decided to keep her as a museum ship in Belfast instead, i will make a pilgrimage at some point in my life to visit her and see what it was like for my great grandpa inside during them dark and uncertain times, he supposedly see the Bizmark at Jutland but i never got to discuss the facts before he passed when i was a young boy.
So this leads me to ask what do you know about your brave ancestors and where they served? who knows maybe some of them served together and we may find out, i understand maybe some people are sensitive to this subject and im sorry if it upsets them, my intentions are not to offend at all but to have my fellow cmdrs storys heard because it can be very interesting for a number of reasons.
We have come along way since then, i.e my girlfriend is part German and only exsisted because her grand dad waz a who was caught in WW2 and brought to Britain as a POW, he hated everything about England but chose to stay after war as it was safer for him i guess, he ended up marrying an English woman (lol) and went on to make Seamarks coach company. (couldnt of hated it that much id say) so yes how lifes are shaped and bonds of love form from devastation. would love to hear fellow cmdrs family storys.
So this leads me to ask what do you know about your brave ancestors and where they served? who knows maybe some of them served together and we may find out, i understand maybe some people are sensitive to this subject and im sorry if it upsets them, my intentions are not to offend at all but to have my fellow cmdrs storys heard because it can be very interesting for a number of reasons.
We have come along way since then, i.e my girlfriend is part German and only exsisted because her grand dad waz a who was caught in WW2 and brought to Britain as a POW, he hated everything about England but chose to stay after war as it was safer for him i guess, he ended up marrying an English woman (lol) and went on to make Seamarks coach company. (couldnt of hated it that much id say) so yes how lifes are shaped and bonds of love form from devastation. would love to hear fellow cmdrs family storys.
