Old Fleet Air Arm images (help identify)

[ecsrobin]

Sadly my father passed away recently after a short battle with cancer at the age of 62.

Clearing out his things we have come across some old fleet air arm photos (including an unrelated period photo of a lister Knobbly)

His dad was in the Royal Marines but I never met him and his step dad Royal Navy but not FAA. I need to try and find a service number for his father as I was never told of him serving in WW2 but there are images with invasion stripes so assume that was the period of most of these images.

So I’m just trying to figure out where these may have been taken or any stories behind them what does the P relate to on the tail of the seafire is it the base it’s stationed at?








August 1950 HMS Triumph




Landings at the battle on Inchon 15 September 1950


Successful rocket attack August 1950

Edited by ecsrobin on Friday 22 November 22:15

[ecsrobin]

Believe the P is HMS triumph and Korean War era.

And a colleague has found 2 of the images online:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205...

Edited by ecsrobin on Friday 22 November 21:58

[shed driver]

Post these on Rum Ration - the amount of knowledge on there is staggering.

SD.

[Yertis]

Those ‘invasion stripes’ were also used in the Korean War in this case they’re on a post war Seafire 47.

[Simpo Two]

ecsrobin said:

Believe the P is HMS triumph and Korean War era.

And a colleague has found 2 of the images online:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205...

'A Firefly aircraft about to land...'

Can't imagine he'd get it level and on the wires from there. A wave-off and go-around surely?

[wolfracesonic]

The first picture looks interesting, to say the least; I wonder if the pilot made it?

[texaxile]

Are they twin prop Seafires? If so my dad has several photo’s he took as a young matelot at a base in the U.K. kicking around, I’ll see if I can find them, as well as showing him these, he may know or recognise something.

[aeropilot]

ecsrobin said:

Believe the P is HMS triumph and Korean War era.

And the Q (on the Firefly) is HMS Vengeance, which didn't serve in Korea, but was loaned to the Aussie's in 1952. After RAN service, she was sold to Brazil in 1959, and under went a refit with angled flight deck, and was named the Minas Gerais, where she remained in service right up until 2001, making it the last WW2 carrier to leave active service.
It went to India for scrapping in 2004.

[Simpo Two]

texaxile said:

Are they twin prop Seafires?

Some were, some not it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Seafire

Re my earlier post, now I can see the photos, I'd say the photo below the one I thought was a wave-off was taken 2-3 seconds later.

[eccles]

Are those over wing RATO packs on the Seafire wing root?

[ecsrobin]

eccles said:

Are those over wing RATO packs on the Seafire wing root?

I believe so.