HMS Ganges Association

Sea Training Aboard HMS Wanderer 1936

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Seaboat drill aboard HMS Wanderer - hoisting in the seaboat.

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Focsle capstan training.

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Working the anchor capstan (windlass) manually.

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Boys to dinner (Bag meal?)


HMS Wanderer - a V & W Class destroyer built 1919
served with distinction during WWII as a modified
A/S escort vessel sinking two U Boats.

Photographs culled from the Easter 1936 edition of the Shotley magazine by
Matt Blair <embee114@blueyonder.co.uk>.



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