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A Merchant Navy gun crew in action, Part 2: Convoy FS.12, Methil to Hull, 15-17 February 1941

Several years ago I wrote a blog about this photo of my grandfather Captain Lawrance Wilfred Gibbins with his gun crew on SS Clan Murdoch in 1940-1. He told me that he had been in action with this gun against German aircraft that machine-gunned and bombed his ship …

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A Merchant Navy gun crew in action, Part 1: the gun and its crew, 1940-1

This photo above was taken in 1940-1 on board SS Clan Murdoch, a British merchant ship that brought essential goods from Africa and India to ports in Britain during the Second World War. The man second from left is my grandfather, Captain Lawrance Wilfred Gibbins, who was the ship’s Second Officer and Gunnery Officer …

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