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by NigelTickner
Sun Aug 23, 2015 3:48 pm
Forum: Motor Gunboats
Topic: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp
Replies: 7
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Re: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp

Here I attach a photograph of SGB 7 which I bought in Wright and Logan's photography shop in Portsmouth quite a few years ago. In pencil on the back of the photo it says '1942', so if correct, earlier in the same year before SGB 7 was engaged in her final action.
by NigelTickner
Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:28 pm
Forum: Motor Gunboats
Topic: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp
Replies: 7
Views: 31051

Re: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp

Dear Friends, Just posted two scanned pages from my Dad's POW log; a titled name page, and a coloured pencil drawing of SGB7 with some naval verse by Rudyard Kipling below which I presume he drew and wrote. At the end of his log he gives five members of the PO's mess onboard H.M. L.S.T.9 onboard whi...
by NigelTickner
Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:05 pm
Forum: Motor Gunboats
Topic: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp
Replies: 7
Views: 31051

Re: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp

Dear Brian, My apologies for the lateness of my response. I am just about to make some posts from a couple of scanned pages from my Dad's POW log, and a couple of photos of him. Please add him to 'known crew' as Petty Officer (Frederick) James Tickner D/JX150848. Just looking at his POW registration...
by NigelTickner
Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:28 pm
Forum: Motor Gunboats
Topic: SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp
Replies: 7
Views: 31051

SGB 7 scuttled and onwards to Marlag POW camp

I came across this website after a google search in which I was surprised to find the wreck of my father's SGB 7 had been found by divers in the Baie de la Seine area. Let me introduce myself; my name is Nigel Tickner and I served as an officer in the RN and RNR (HMS SUSSEX) in the 70s and 80s. The ...

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