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Today we take a look at the middle stages of the WW2 career of 'Johnnie' Walker and the last voyage of HMS Stork under his command.Part 1 - https://youtu.be/

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Captain Frederic John Walker, CB, DSO & Three Bars (3 June 1896 - 9 July 1944) (his first name is given as Frederick in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and some London Gazette entries) was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his exploits during the Second World War.Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during the Battle of the Atlantic, and was known

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One such figure, central to Liverpool's maritime story, is Captain Frederic John 'Johnnie' Walker. ... Walker was being earmarked for early retirement! However, luckily for us all, he was given command of HMS Stork in 1941, part of the 36th Escort Group guarding convoys of merchant ships crossing the Atlantic: a vital lifeline for our

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Today we take a look at the early life of 'Johnnie' Walker and the first major opening engagement he fought in WW2, the convoy HG-76Sources:Walker RN - Rober

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On 30th June 1942, Walker was promoted to Captain. At least 3, and possibly 4 more U-Boats were sunk by the 36th Escort Group before the Captain left STORK to take an appointment as Captain (D

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Captain Walker RN Part One. Captain Frederick "Johnny" Walker, CB, and 4 times DSO, was from September 1941 to September 1942, Commanding Officer of HMS STORK. The Second World War was fully in

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In the spring of 1942 Walker took command of the Second Support Group, the first of the new striking forces to roam against the U-boats free of escorting duties. ... Sloop HMS Starling (U 66) 2 Jun 1943 (position 56.12, -39.52) German U-boat U-202 was sunk at 0030hrs on 2 June 1943 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, in position

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Walker noted in his Diary: "I fixed the U-boat's position using bearings from Starling and Wild Goose. The date was June 1st, the Christian name of my HF/DF officer was Howe, asdic conditions

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Captain Frederick "Johnny" Walker, CB, and 4 times DSO, was from September 1941 to September 1942, Commanding Officer of HMS STORK. The Second World War was fully in its stride when he took command. When Captain Walker addressed the ship's company, he said that he had not been able to sail during the war, working in Whitehall, but he then made

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The commander was promoted to captain on June 30, 1942. He later sunk three more U-boats, before taking command of the 2nd Escort Group (2 EG) in 1943. Unlike the 36th, the 2nd didn't escort convoys.

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Strange how he was always running into them." 10 Some speculate that Walker was personally targeted. 11 In June 1942, 44 against Convoy OG 84, guarded by Walker with only f' ve escorts, Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander of the Germ 311 submarine force, launched an all-out attack and inflicted a 22% loss on the convoy.

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Few Plymothians can have done as much as Frederick 'Johnnie' Walker did during World War Two to help Britain to ultimate victory. ... By June of 1942 Walker's flotilla had escorted 16 convoys of more than 400 ships with just nine merchant ships lost. ... In June 1943, Walker demonstrated this with a 15 hour duel with U-202 not allowing it the

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But he was still young and too junior for promotion. A new captain was appointed and Starling went to sea. A month later the captain left the ship having contracted lumbago in Walker's leaky old

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Walker suffered a cerebral thrombosis on 7 July 1944 and died two days later at the Naval Hospital at Seaforth, Merseyside aged 48; his death was attributed to overwork and exhaustion. In 1998 a statue by Liverpool sculptor Tom Murphy of Captain Johnnie Walker in a typical pose was unveiled at the Pier Head in Liverpool by HRH the Duke of

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Drachinifel: Frederick 'Johnnie' Walker - Stork to Starling- Part 2 (early 1942 to June 1943) 02/05/2024 tags: Antisubmarine Warfare , Battle of the Atlantic ,

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HMS Kite (U87), part of Capt. Frederic Walker's 2nd Escort Group (2 EG), sailing along an explosion caused by a depth charge attack, 1944. (Photo Credit: Claude Henry Parnall / Imperial War Museums / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) In December 1941, Frederic Walker achieved the first Allied victory during the Battle of the Atlantic when he sank five U-boats attempting to attack his convoy.

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Drachinifel: Frederick 'Johnnie' Walker - Gladiator of the Seas - Part 1 (1896 to early 1942) 10/04/2024. tags: Anti-submarine Warfare, Atlantic Convoys, Battle of the Atlantic, Drachinifel, Naval History, Second World War. Uploaded April 04,2024.

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Mrs. Walker increased her authority over all things domestic by giving birth in 1924 to a second son, Nicholas, and a year later to their first daughter, Gillian. But the years ashore made Walker

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Yet in 1942 alone, 1,664 Allied ships totalling almost eight million tons were lost, the great majority due to U-boat attacks. While Britain and the Allies were being pummelled on this scale, the

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12 August 2005. This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Mike Kemble and Captain Frederick Walker. When the Second Support Group returned to Liverpool with U-202 and two more killings to