HMS Atlantic Isle remembered 80 years on
Report from Tristan Government UK Representative Chris Carnegy
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Tristan da Cunha's role in the Second World War was recalled in Westminster on 7th November 2022, as House of Commons Speaker Sir Lyndsay Hoyle opened his Garden of Remembrance. Representatives of the UK Overseas Territories were invited to plant a cross in Parliament's grounds, alongside MPs and Commonwealth High Commissioners. It's eighty years since Tristan was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1942 as a 'stone frigate', to track Nazi U-boats and provide weather data for the Allies. I wrote the name of the 'ship' - HMS Atlantic Isle - on the Tristan cross, to commemorate the island's contribution to eventual victory.
Left: The scene at Westminster on 7th November with behind the London Eye framed between Portcullis House to the left and the Palace of Westminster to the right. (Photo: UK Government - Jessica Taylor) |
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Left: Chris Carnegy with the Tristan remembrance cross; Above: Chris' inscription commemorating eighty years since Tristan was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Atlantic Isle on a cross also laid in the Garden of Remembrance. (Photos: Chris Carnegy) |
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| Tristan da Cunha's remembrance cross with slate inscription. (Photo: Chris Carnegy) |
House of Commons Speaker Sir Lyndsay Hoyle opening his Garden of Remembrance. (Photo: UK Government - Jessica Taylor) |
Singer Jasmine Faulkner performing at the ceremony. (Photo: UK Government - Jessica Taylor)