HMS Tartar

I've been meaning to blog about the weekend we recently spent in Bournemouth at the annual meeting of the MHS Tartar Association. This is the ship that my Father-in-law served on in 1941-42 in the North Atlantic. It was decommissioned and broken up in 1948, but a new ship with the same name was launched afew years later. My FiL was the only representative of the earlier ship there, the others being from the later incarnation of the Tartar; but he (and his daughter and I) had a great time and were made to feel very welcome. We've already decided to go again next year in Scarborough.

It was also my first real visit to Bournemouth, and I definitely feel it's a place to come back to for a couple of nights to explore and enjoy properly.