Myfanwy Avril James joined the WRENS on March 29th, 1944 and turned 18 a few days later. Following two weeks of probation, she was sent, with other probationers to Portsmouth and she chose to become a chart corrector. As a result, she was sent to Boom Defence Depot in Gosport, where they added drawing duties to her work. Chart Correcting was carried out on navigation charts which were issued to all naval ships. Myfanwy explains the work as "Each week lists of corrections concerned with such items as changing positions and types of buoys, new mine-swept channels, positions of wrecks, submerged rocks etc were issued to ships and these had to be plotted on the charts." Myfanwy worked for the Lieutenant-Commander who was the Navigator at the depot. "In addition, the Engineer Officer designed changes to the depot ships which laid the boom defences and I drew up the details."

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