The Welshman was sunk off Tobruk, Libya, on February 1, 1943 after being hit by two torpedoes fired by a German submarine. More than 150 of the ship’s crew perished; 60 survived. The association ...

If you're watching the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip today, keep an eye out for the Welshman with a very ... Morgan commands survey vessel HMS Magpie, named after the frigate ...

Fred, aged 82, who joined up in 1941, was just 19 when his ship, the mine-laying cruiser HMS Welshman, was sunk in the Mediterranean en route from Malta to Alexandria. He spent four and a half ...

At the age of 13 he enlisted in the Royal Navy and by 1899 was serving on HMS Majestic where Lieutenant ... and appropriate testimony to the first Welshman ever to reach the South Pole.