Greetings all ! I have another mystery to try and sort out. I have a picture of my dad with the ships crew but in the photo the name of the ship written on the lifeboy and propped up in front of the picture is indistinct. It looks like it could be HMS or HMSAS and then a missing letter and ending with what could be HEAD or MEAD. It could not have been a large vessel as the CO is a Lt Cmdr, then 3 Lt's (One being my dad) 4 PO's and 4 CPO's and 18 seamen who interestingly all seem to have their cap tally's tied with butterfly bows, unfortunately being wartime they only have HMS on the tally's. The officers don't have the orange flash diamond above their stripes so I suspect it was not a HMSAS ship (Although I don't know at what stage the orange flash came into use). there is no distinguishing feature on what little one can see of the ship. I have tried several places but can only find a USS Mead. Neville