After new entry training at HMS Victory in Portsmouth, I and my class went for our technical training to the RAF gunnery school at Sheerness where we were to learn all about guns, bombs, explosives etc., but on the outbreak of war in September 1939 we were re-trans...
1927, saw James Blackburn at the 'Naval Ordnance Department', followed from 1928-1930, training duties at RN base, Portsmouth (HMS Victory). 1930-1932 saw Blackburn as an 'Executive Officer' on a cruiser called HMS Constance (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth, Hampshire.) James Alexander Pollard Blac...