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Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi folks

Your help please !
I have my Uncles ( Mark Robinson ) Royal Navy Certificate of Service, he served 30 July 1941
to 16 May 1946.
There are some abbreviations I am scratching my head with !!

i.e. After HMS Rooke in brackets BS ?
On one line there is the word Proxipine and then in brackets John Fitzgerald and then the word
Fossbeck crossed out ?
Can't find any WW web reference to those words neither is there the word Proxipine in the dictionary.

There was an HMS Porcupine !!

After HMS Drake in brackets BOD ?

After HMS Wildfire in brackets TBD

No doubt some of you have looked on the web at information relating to the Navy and it's ships in WW2. I am amazed at just how much there is !

Any ex naval people out there ?

Look forward to your replies

Roger

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hello Roger

H.M.S. Rooke was a shore establishment.
H.M.S. Drake is now Devonport in Plymouth.
H.M.S. Wildfire is now Northwood in London.
Proxipine is an anti inflammatory drug.


Regards

Terry

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi,

TBD might perhaps stand for “to be decided.”

Heths

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Hi Terry

Thanks for your reply

I am looking at the situation of those 3 vessels whilst my Uncle was serving.
HMS Rooke was the Boom Defence Central Depot at Rosyth in Scotland.
Drake I believe to have been a base ship during his time, probably at Plymouth, although I can't find any definitive evidence.
Wildfire in 1945 was the RN Sheerness base.

You say that Proxipine was an anti inflammatory drug !!
I can't find any such word in a dictionary or on the web.
There is a drug called Paroxetine

Clarification please on your source for the word Proxipine

Roger

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi Heather

Could be right with that !
His posting to Wildfire could I suppose have been pending for whatever reason

Roger

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi,

BOD might be Base Ordnance Depot.

Heths

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

PS - there was a ship called Proserpine. Perhaps Proxipine was a mis-spelling?

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi Heather

Thanks for suggestion re BOD and the reference to the ship Proserpine

Roger

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Proxipine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=proxipine&rlz=1C1AVSK_enGB732GB732&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=CMEhdvYHtM5qfM%253A%252CodrZseu8gAoS3M%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTgE-zZelHivds0qGi12PrmhqcaDQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9nOfCurvgAhXPVBUIHQI2CCEQ9QEwAnoECAYQCA#imgrc=CMEhdvYHtM5qfM:

Think i cocked it up on anti inflammatory.

Terry

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi Terry, forget the ' **** up ' and move on

HMS Proserpine was the main base HQ and communications Centre for Scapa Flow under naval command in the Orkney Islands in WW2.
Became operational in 1943.

Roger

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Rog

Are you going to the Endciffe Park Memorial Fly past?

You can have a ride on my broomstick! lol

Ann

Re: Royal Navy abbreviations / words

Hi Ann

Will e mail you

Roger