https://www.adventourbegins.com/lerwick-cruise-port-guide-shetland-islands/ Guide To Your Cruise Destinations Fri, 22 May 2026 19:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.adventourbegins.com/lerwick-cruise-port-guide-shetland-islands/#comment-14610 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:56:35 +0000 https://adventourbegins.com/?p=10884#comment-14610 My father was stationed on HMS Fox during WWII, based in Lerwick, he was a member of the RNVR, at some time during this time he was on a ship that downed a German submarine for which he was awarded a medal from the then King of England.
Patrick C Cother met Muriel the office worker at the base………and she wrote to my mother in Sussex England asking her to divorce my father as they were in love and wanted to get married. This letter arrived before I was born. Mum refused to get a divorce, I dont know what happened to Muriel, she obviously did not know the old adage a sailor has a woman in every port. Maybe not all sailors, but my father was a tremendous flirt with an ego that needed to be flattered by feminine sweet talk. Sadly he had an affair with a London woman prior to going up north and she had two sons by him……….and again my mother refused to divorce him. After WWII my father went to work on yachts and boats in Europe….. having met a French lady with who he lived with until finally when I was 19 my mother divorced him. And he blamed her affair with a neighbor for her unfaithfulness. He was a charmer that is for sure.

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