the Takao, which lay over a depression in the sea bed, and his diver Acting Leading Seaman James Joseph Magennis went out to fix the limpet mines to the bottom of the ship. The two side-charges then had to be released from XE-3, but the starboard charge stuck and Magennis climbed out again and after a nerve-wracking seven minutes released the charge. XE-3 then made for home. Magennis was also awarded a Victoria Cross, and Fraser became a lieutenant-commander. The citation was published in a supplement to the London Gazette of 9 November 1945 (dated 13 November 1945) and read: His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London. Later life 1946: Fraser was awarded the American decoration of Legion of Merit, Degree of Officer. 1947: Fraser left the Royal Navy, but he remained in the Royal Naval Reserve. He set up a commercial diving firm. 1953: He was promoted to lieutenant-commander. 1957: Fraser's autobiography Frogman VC was published. 1957: He became a Justice of the Peace in Wallasey. 16 August 1963: He was awarded a clasp to his Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve. 18 December 1965: He left the Royal Naval Reserve. 1980: He became a Younger Brother of Trinity House. 1993: He was made an honorary freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. 1 September 2008: Fraser died aged 87 at Arrowe Park Hospital, after a three-week illness. He was survived by his wife Melba, and 5 of his 6 children, and 13 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren. He was cremated at Landican cemetery, Birkenhead. Scuba diving Realising that frogman-type diving (i.e. what is now called scuba diving) could do many sorts of underwater work that the old-type heavy standard diving gear was unsuitable for, he and some associates got hold of war-surplus frogman's kit and set up a popular public show displaying frogman techniques in a big aquarium tank in Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester in England. One of his early calls to underwater work was from the police to recover the body of a little girl who had drowned in a pond in Denton, Greater Manchester. Using the show's takings, and with his younger brother Brian Fraser, he set up a commercial diving organisation called Universal Divers Ltd, of which he was managing director from 1947 to 1965 and, since 1983 (as former chairman). In January 1961