A History of H.M.S. SPEAKER


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THE CREW OF HMS SPEAKER VISIT NAGASAKI, 5 SEPTEMBER 1945 This media is not currently available online. Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access Description Object description The remains of industrial buildings in an area of Nagasaki where most of the damage was caused by blast from the atomic bomb dropped on 9 August 1945.


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The British POWs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945 When one considers the formal conclusion of the war against Japan 75 years ago, within the popular imagination two separate horrifying visions spring to mind, visions that have come to epitomise the manner in which the conflict in the Far East came to a close.


THE CREW OF HMS SPEAKER VISIT NAGASAKI, 5 SEPTEMBER 1945 Imperial War Museums

HMS SPEAKER (D 90) - Ruler-class Escort Aircraft Carrier. RULER-Class Escort Aircraft Carrier obtained under US/UK Lend Lease Agreement. A mercantile which was under construction by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation at Seattle and was requisitioned by by the US Navy for use as an auxiliary aircraft carrier (CVE) to be named USS DELGADA.


HMS SPEAKER BRINGS OUT FIRST POW'S FROM TOKYO. 2 SEPTEMBER 1945, ON BOARD THE ESCORT CARRIER HMS

North China Marines - Prisoners of War HMS Speaker and the USS Catron HMS Speaker was built in Seattle in 1943 and given to the British under the Lend-Lease program. Photo below is the Speaker in the harbor at Nagasaki after boarding POWs from Fukuoka 3-B. On 17 Sep 1945 899 POWs boarded.


Nagasaki Harbour, HMS Speaker's Evacuation Of Prisoners Of War From Japan Picture. Image 222302771

The Nagasaki area can be seen in the background. This is one of a series of images from negative numbers 045139 to 045157 taken with a camera borrowed by WO2 Syd Barber, following his release from captivity. The camera belonged to the darkroom of the British escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Speaker.


POWs with flag at Nagasaki railway station, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from

Catalogue ref: AIR 49/384 Innoshima POW Camp at Hiroshima According to the report drafted by Warrant Officer Yabel of the Army Education Corps, who arrived at the Innoshima Island POW camp from.


HMS Speaker In Nagasaki Harbour, HMS Speaker's Evacuation Of Prisoners Of War From Japan Picture

The remains of industrial buildings in an area of Nagasaki where most of the damage was caused by blast from the atomic bomb dropped on 9 August 1945.. THE CREW OF HMS SPEAKER VISIT NAGASAKI, 5 SEPTEMBER 1945. This media is not currently available. Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access. Description


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Description: Atomic bomb damage, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan Location: Nagasaki, Japan Date: September-October 1945 Our catalogue reference: ADM 1/19302 (15) This image is part of a collection of photographs found in correspondence of the Admiralty held at The National Archives.


Atomic bomb damage in Nagasaki, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan a

The camera belonged to the darkroom of the British escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Speaker. Between 26 September 1945 and mid October 1945, HMS Speaker made a voyage from Nagasaki to Manila repatriating Australian POWs from prison camps in Japan.


POWs At Nagasaki Railway Station, HMS Speaker's Evacuation Of Prisoners Of War From Japan

Description Object description The crew of HMS SPEAKER travelling through the outskirts of Nagasaki during a tour to view the destruction caused by the dropping of the second atomic bomb on 9 August 1945. Object Details Category Photographs Related period Second World War (production), Second World War (content) Materials whole: Nitrate Dimensions


HMS 'Speaker' sails into Sydney from Manila with returning former POWs of Japan Australia's

HMS SPEAKER sailed from Portland on December 6th 1943 bound for Vancouver, Canada to be modified to meet Admiralty requirements, receive her full crew compliment (SPEAKER had only a skeleton crew drafted to her at Portland due to manpower shortages), and work up ready for beginning her active service.


POWs arrive by train at Nagasaki, HMS Speaker's evacuation… Flickr

HMS Speaker (D90), a Ruler -class escort carrier, based on a "C3" hull, was originally the Bogue -class USS Delgada (AVG/ACV/CVE-40), which was transferred to the United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease program. Design and description These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers.


HMS Speaker, British escort carrier, WW2

History of H.M.S. Speaker (Part 3: September 1945 - February 1946) MANILA (9th to 12th Sept.). Steaming between Corrigidor and the Bataan peninsula just before dawn, we anchored about two miles from the shattered remains of the city of Manila.


Escort Carrier Photo Index DELGADA (CVE40) / HMS SPEAKER

The crew of HMS SPEAKER travelling through an industrial quarter of Nagasaki during a tour to view the destruction caused by the dropping of the second atomic bomb on 9 August 1945. Note the surviving factory chimneys. Object Details Category Photographs Related period 1945-1989 (production), 1945-1989 (content) Materials whole: Nitrate Dimensions


A History of H.M.S. SPEAKER

THE CREW OF HMS SPEAKER VISIT NAGASAKI, 5 SEPTEMBER 1945. This media is not currently available. Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access. Description. Royal Navy, SPEAKER (HMS) Associated events Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb Attacks, Japan, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War; Associated places


Nagasaki town, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of wa… Flickr

Description: HMS Speaker in Nagasaki harbour, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan Location: Nagasaki, Japan Date: September-October 1945 Our catalogue reference: ADM 1/19302 (9) This image is part of a collection of photographs found in correspondence of the Admiralty held at The National Archives.

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