Her Majesty’s Ships and their Forbears by Cecil King, signed and dated from HMS Golden Eagle, 1941

Hi,

I picked up this book the other week and noticed that it has been signed inside by someone whining k was called John Goulder. I can’t be a hundred percent sure. It has the words ‘HMS Golden Eagle’ and is dated 1941.

I’ve tried to research this online and have been in touch with the Imperial War Museum, who couldn’t really help.

Any information about this would be greatly appreciated!

Rich

 

Hi,

I picked up this book the other week and noticed that it has been signed inside by someone I think was called John Goulder. I can’t be a hundred percent sure. It has the words ‘HMS Golden Eagle’ and is dated 1941.

I’ve tried to research this online and have been in touch with the Imperial War Museum, who couldn’t really help.

Any information about this would be greatly appreciated!

Rich

 

Donating this book to the Naval Historical Society:

Title
* The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development, and Work
Author
John Rushworth Jellicoe
Publication
Cassell and company, ltd (1919), Edition: First Edition

 

HMS Golden Eagle was a requisitioned paddle steamer (London to Margate/Ramsgate route) commissioned in 1940 & then based at Sheerness. It was fitted out as an auxiliary anti-aircraft ship. Took part in Operation Dynamo 1940 & the D Day landings 1944. Also became an accommodation ship. One website I looked at said she escorted coastal convoys, which would fit with her AA role & may have been what she was doing in 1941.

Travers

 

ah cheers for that! I’ve been trying to find out who signed the book but as I’m struggling to read the signature exactly, I can’t be sure.

 

I think you are right that its John Goulder/Golder.

Travers

 

There's something between the first and last names. Might be 'John W Goulder'.

No officer by the name of Goulder in the various Navy Lists quoted here:
GOLDED EAGLE