During the Second World War he served in the Royal Naval Reserve on Mine Sweeper Trawlers. The first was H.M.S. Brecon Castle a mine sweeper trawler built in 1916. Her Naval Pennant was FY 507 She was commissioned by the Admiralty in August 1939; then in 1940 the Mine Sweeper Trawler H.M.S. Alberic. John Richard Corlett READER was the captain of H.M.S. Patti another mine sweeper trawler and Flotilla Leader which was built in 1929. Her Naval Pennant was 4.10280; she was commissioned by the Admiralty in 1941.
After the Second World War he moved to Lowestoft and became skipper of one of Boston Trawlers Ltd. diesel trawlers the “Lowestoft Lady “LT 247. On Saturday the 4th of February 1956 “Lowestoft Lady” starred in the B.B.C. Television programme “Saturday-Night Out – Goes to Sea”. Robert Beatty reported on the fishermen of Lowestoft, with Bob Danvers-Walker on board at sea.
