QE2 and the Falklands War

[Ron Warwick]

Does anyone remember C A Moore

I’m helping a colleague with a project about the qe2 In the Falklands

Does anyone know if a crew list was every published of crew who went to the Falklands
Canberra did it and listed everybody and their department and was wondering if Cunard did the same

C A Moore served as a Quartermaster on QE2. He went to the Falklands and his medal was offered for sale on eBay last June. I remember that he was a very keen collector of MN related badges.

[Rob Lightbody]

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[Peter Mugridge]

I see I have some retweeting to do tonight... 

[Rob Lightbody]

On our Bluesky channel, we got a message from Dave from "DD Conccert Photography" with the following message

Came across your page and thought you might be interested in these images. I took them on 29 May 1982 in Cumberland East Bay in South Georgia when she was being used as a troop carrier

https://bsky.app/profile/ddconcertphotography.com/post/3lhqdxm5m222e

2 superb images attached.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Fabulous photos! Great to see them here.

[Andy Holloway]

On our Bluesky channel, we got a message from Dave from "DD Conccert Photography" with the following message

Came across your page and thought you might be interested in these images. I took them on 29 May 1982 in Cumberland East Bay in South Georgia when she was being used as a troop carrier

https://bsky.app/profile/ddconcertphotography.com/post/3lhqdxm5m222e

2 superb images attached.

To QE2s rear is RFA Stromness, the last of 3 Ness Class RFA Stores ships, the other 2, RFA Tarbetness & Lyness, were sold to USA in 1981/2. In 1978 is spent 6 months as part of the Royal Marines contingent, 10 of us, who sailed on RFA Tarbetness for the 1978 Defence Sales Tour to Greece, Spain, Nigeria, Brazil, Columbia & Tunisia. We were the team who demonstrated various different landing craft and small boats supplied by civilian companies. I was Coxwain of a 12m Rotork landing craft with Volvo Penta inboard/outboard engines, the proverbial **it off a shovel, 26 knots, downhill with a following tide!   

[Barumfox]

Indeed great photos and the RFA Stromness is only a few miles from the whaling station of the same name which was where Sir Ernest Shaclkleton headed for after his escape from the Endurance / Elephant Island - and was subsequently buried at Grytviken after dying there in 1922.

Commodore Ronald Warwick and David Humphreys book on QE2 in the Falklands War has now been published which will undoubtedly contain many other photos of her trooping mission.

Gary