I digitised the war diary of HMS Quality (G62)

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  1. Dreadllama

    Dreadllama New Member

    My Grandfather was Able Seaman Ronald Hawkins who was a Pom Pom gunner on the Destroyer HMS Quality (G62) which attained 4 battle stars, he passed away last year and I wound up with the strangest war diary in my possession, he didn’t write it and it appeared to be an unofficial carbon copy of the ship’s movements, general crew atmosphere and accounts of battle and manoeuvres with other ships. It also had a full list of the ship’s company which seems pretty amazing.


    I could find no record of this document online and there is only a very small amount of information about this seemingly almost forgotten ship. I decided to undertake the mammoth effort to type it up digitally and created a website for the HMS Quality, I feel that she deserves a memorial and I doubt anyone else has one of these still in their possession and if I don’t do this, the information will be lost to time, so I created a website with all information from the war diary.


    www.hms-quality.info – all 10,000+ word of the war diary.

    http://www.hms-quality.info/ships-company/- All 471 officers and enlisted men who served aboard.

    About HMS Quality - HMS Quality - Full information about the ship

    Media - HMS Quality - All images and pictures of the original document for reference.


    I hope you get the same amount of joy from this as I do and I’m sure there are people out there with a personal connection to this ship the same as me who will learn something about their loved one’s lives aboard. Who knows some of the company may still be alive and have memories come flooding back. Please share to keep the memory of the ship and those who fought aboard her alive!


    Thanks,


    Adam
     
  2. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
     
  3. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Thank you for posting
     
  4. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

    A super effort Adam. Thanks for the hard work to get the diary online.

    Lee
     
  5. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    The fact that they are quickly searchable, instantly duplicable and often more easily legible, transcriptions are a lot more useful that even original documents.

    Current and future researchers owe a debt to anybody working on such projects.

    Top Stuff.
     
  6. Dreadllama

    Dreadllama New Member

    Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad it's there for the world to see, and the internet doesn't forget so it will always be there for the future.
     

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