"I am researching my parents working background during the war years in the UK and so far I have come up with the following.
"My Father, Desmond Mulvany was an electrician and to the best of my knowledge from 1939 worked in the Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead. There is a recollection of him advising my mother that he had also worked on HMS THETIS, the ill fated submarine which had sunk in Liverpool Bay during sea trails inJune 1939. It is believed he had been due to go on board but for some reason his trip on her had been cancelled.
"From 1940 to May 1941 he was employed in the Liffey Dockyard in Dublin degaussing Allied and Irish Ships.It is believed with the permission of the Irish Government that Royal Naval Officers were secretly assisting and advising Irish dockyard personnel on degaussing techniques.After the Germans bombed Dublin in May of 1941 this activity ceased.
"From June 1941 to July 1944 he worked as a supervisory electrician with Babcocks, Pembroke Dock Royal Dock Yard in South Wales involved in the repair of British Naval and merchant vessels. My mother Evelyn Mulvany nee McCarthy was also employed in the admin. block in the same dockyard. They both lived happily in Haverfordwest and my father was an air raid warden in this locality. My mother was also involved with the local WVS and assisted the ARP engaged in general Duties.
"Both were Irish Nationals born in Dublin.They subsequently moved to Wallasey in Liverpool and worked for Cammell Laird in their Dockyard from 1944-45.
"My Father died in 1957 and my mother in 1998. It would be appreciated if any of your readers could provide some historical information about the Pembroke Dock Royal Dock Yard and its role during WW2 and perhaps some knowledge of the Haverfordwest area during that time."
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Sue Newman from West Yorkshire
RE: John McCormick - Stafford.
Not sure whether or not we are on the same trail, but I have recently discovered that my GG Grandmother Mary Ann McCormick born about 1847 Kinsale, Ireland was living in Pembroke Dock at the time of her marriage in 1868. Her father was John McCormick, who at the time possibly lived at Water Street, Pembroke Dock. Is this the same person you may be looking for?
Mon Nov 3 12:53:14 2008
John McCormick, Stafford
I am searching the McCormick family from pembroke dock my gt grandad was born in the east indies my granddad was born in pembroke dock 1865.
Tue Aug 19 12:49:09 2008
Hilary Rollason from Newport, South Wales
You mentioned the name of Babcock, I haven't heard that name. There was a Hancocks shipyard in Pembroke Dock. My mother was brought up in Pembroke Dock and her brother worked in the Dock There is a book called 'The Book of Pembroke Dock'by Phil Carradice giving the history of the Dockyard with photographs. Printed circa 1991 (ISBN 0 86023 494 3)
Mon Oct 30 09:14:11 2006
Patrick Flynn from Bristol
This website might be a good start:
http://www.pembrokedock.org/history.htm
(my Waterford-born great-grandfather came to Neyland/Pembroke about 50 year earlier than yours)
Thu Feb 9 22:21:57 2006
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