Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - W - unit histories Seven photos-- six of HMCS Saguenay, and one of HMS Nabob, both severely damaged. list 1944-45 HMCS SIOUX R64 Summary of Operations 1944-1945 Korean War Vet recalls time aboard HMCS SIOUX Commanding Officers LCdr Eric Eversley Garratt Boak, DSC, RCN - 21 Feb 1944 - 29 Jun 1945 Completed and transferred to Royal Navy: 11 August 1943. The Maritime History Archive - search their Crew List Index by ship's official number. H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information June 7, 1944: D-Day invasion as seen from HMCS Sioux-- June 7 to 23: patrols along coast of France with much action -- June 24: major action involved sinking of HMS Swift-- Aug. 24 to 29: attacks on Tirpitz-- Sept. 7: accidental death of Signalman Robert White-- Sept. 16 to Oct. 4: convoy to and from Russia -- Dec. 30: accidental death of L/S . HMS Icarus in the Second World War 1939-1945 - The Wartime ... First flight of 4 aircrafts shot up and bombed an accompanying mine sweeper in the Vegafjord. For some of the cross-Channel and Isle of Wight . MaritimeQuest - HMS Implacable Message Board Messages 1 ... Click From Chauvin, Alberta . Destroyers Lost IN WW2: USS: Aaron Ward: DD483: 7th April 1943: USS: Abner Read: DD526: 1st November 1944: HMS: A casta: H09: 8th June 1940: HMS: A chates: H12: 31st . (02. Gasoline tanker USS Chehalis (AOG-48) sunk by fire and explosion at Tutuila, Samoa. PDF ROYAL NAVY LOSS LIST Photo: Swash Channel wreck courtesy ... Armament (1944): 7x 152 mm guns, 2x 37/40 mm pom-pom quatritubes guns, 4x 40 mm pom-pom guns, 6x . This however was not the end, in 1988 HMS Swallow and HMS Swift departed these shores together with the 3rd Raiding Squadron Royal Marines. Marie on 29 May 2019. All ships of the group were progressively transferred to one of these divisions. He set a magnificent example to the rest of the Director Tower crew, who all stood to their posts and made light of the incident. 4.2 Crew lists and agreements 1939-1950. The official report into the loss of HMS Warwick on 20 February 1944 (ADM 358/4320) is in the National Archives at Kew. Renamed Bozcaada, she remained in Turkish service until 1971. She continued the tradition of flotilla leaders being named after prominent British seamen, in her case Vice-Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. November 1944 to March 1945. Skip to main content (Press Enter). The following is an alphabetical list of named vessels of the Revenue Marine, Revenue Cutter Service, Coast Guard and Lighthouse . HMS Sampson HMS Severn HMS Severn HMS Shah HMS Shannon HMS Shark HMS Sheffield HMS Sikh HMS Southampton HMS Suffolk HMS Swift HMAS Sydney HMAS Sydney . The three Prince ships, no longer required as auxiliary cruisers, were taken in hand throughout the year and rebuilt: Prince David and Prince Henry were converted into landing ships, each of which would carry a landing craft flotilla, while Prince Robert was rebuilt as an anti-aircraft . . OFFICIAL DESPATCHES - Page 10 and Page 134. This list shows 129 warships and 7 types of landing crafts used by the various navies in the Channel during the Battle of Normandy. Robert Lomas. His name was Peter Hardcastle Jackson (service no. P&O became the 'parent' company. Co. was reorganised into divisions, General Cargo, Passenger and Bulk Handling. HMS Starling joined the squadron in January 1985, and HMS Swallow followed it in April with HMS Swift joining later in the year. Graham Alex Reid F Bollan Saguenay had its stern blown off when a collision with a freighter detonated its depth charges, and Nabob was torpedoed by a U-boat on August 22, 1944 . What we think is the end of his HMS Caledonia training in 1938 (my dad is 3rd row back, 3rd boy in on left). HMS Swift G.46 : 15th June 1943: Sunk 24th June 1944 by mines of Normandy : HMS Troubridge R.00: 23rd September 1942: Broken up May 1970 at Newport: HMS Teazer R.23: 7th January 1943: Broken up August 1965 at Dalmuir : HMS Tenacious R.45: 24th March 1943 Reclassified: HMS J-1002 later HMS BYMS-2202. The accuracy is only as good as these sources which have been thoroughly transcribed and cross-checked. Leading Seaman J. Borthwick had the honour of piping Adm. Nelles aboard M.T.B.459. commissioned 1944, lost 6 June. Lelean Carl Swift was born on January 12, 1925, in Mindenmines, Barton County, Missouri, the third son of ten kids born to William Lee and Millie Anna (Hoover) Swift. On her . Lelean, his older brother Luther Robert "Speedy", and his younger twin brothers Lowell Greenberry "Skeet" and Charles Loren "Chuck" formed a gang . Over the last twenty years we have worked with hundreds of people and many archives around the world to make the largest database of . This contact was made at 50°09'N, 12°51'W. Working with the British destroyer HMS Swift (G 46), the PC-619 made three dye-marked runs with contact being regained after each attack. HMS Cleveland (Navy Photos, click to enlarge) return to Contents List : Type I HUNT Class Escort Destroyer ordered from Yarrow Shipbuilders at Glasgow as Job No 1835 under the 1939 Programme on 21st March 1939. 1862: The Union Army of the Potomac occupies Fredericksburg, Virginia, as General Ambrose Burnside continues to execute his plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond. A list of the crew accompanied these agreements. HMS Templar returns from patrol in Far East, 1944 . HMS Swift (destroyer) (10.1944) no appointment listed: 23.11.1944-(07.1945) HMS Rajah (escort carrier) (04 . Lelean Carl Swift of the YMS-385. The British captured her later that year and she served in the Royal Navy in the Channel . HMS Swift (TB81) was a torpedo boat launched between 1884 and 1887, and broken up in 1921. Among her crew were two VCs, one DSO, two DSCs, six DSMs and 13 mentions . Special List 44, "List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947," consists of an alphabetical list of vessels and dates of extant logs created during that time frame that had been transferred to NARA at the time of publication (1978). The National Archives holds all the surviving crew lists and agreements for the Second World War and the succeeding years up to 1950. . M.T.B. HMCS Swift Current was placed in strategic reserve at Sorel, Quebec, the following year, but reacquired by the Royal Canadian Navy in 1951 owing to the Korean emergency. 459 picked up Vice-Admiral P. Nelles from a British transport to take him over to H.M.C.S. Sydney, HMAS- 6in gun . At 4.26 p.m. there was a violent explosion in " Queen Mary"; she was enveloped in clouds of grey smoke, and disappeared. A fascinating footnote to the famous action between HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeakeoff Boston Harbor in June 1813 is the effect it had on the career of Provo Wallis, second lieutenant of the British frigate, who went on to establish a record in the Royal Navy for length of service. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 20 April 1814 - HMS Orpheus (36), Cptn. She was laid down on 7th June 1939 and launched on 24th April 1940 as the 4th ship to carry this name, introduced in 1651. They were and are the very heart and soul of the ship. HMS Swift (destroyer) (10.1944) no appointment listed: 23.11.1944-(07.1945) HMS Rajah (escort carrier) (04 . The crew of the HM Submarine Thrasher (N37 a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy), captained by Lieutenant H. S. McKenzie came ashore to a heroic welcome in Dover in 1944. contact G. Robertson. William Ferris, and HMS Swift hired cutter (12), Lt. Edward Hawker, stormed a fort, spiking the guns and blowing up the magazine, and captured French privateer L'Harmonie (8) at Marin St. Ann's Bay, Martinique. The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. HMS Tartar from the right . )1946: HMS Howe (battleship) (despatches) 07.1946-(04.1947) HMS Marlborough (training establishment, Eastbourne) 1948 : Flotilla Electrical Officer, HMS Chequers: 1950 : HMS Collingwood: 1952 : HMS Boxer . Members who served with HMS Swiftsure. The new Hong Kong Squadron was now complete. The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1945, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. HMS Saumarez was an S class destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed on 1 July 1943. USS Tusk (SS-426) crew members washed overboard while rescuing crew of fire damaged USS Cochino (SS-345) in the Norwegian Sea. He served from 10 October 1940 to 21 January 1946, his only ship was HMS Icarus from 12 March 1941 to 10 February 1944 when he was transferred to Glasgow in the Royal Navy police. October and November 1944. HMS Verulam. HMCS SIOUX R64 - Crew / N.O.K. HMS Swift was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. . There will be inevitable transcription errors. HMCS Sioux picked up 14 survivors. WARRANT OFFICER Served from 1945 - 1979 Served in HMS Sirius. HMS Roberts . Number on sick list 17 [HMS Philomel, 2616 ton cruiser, was launched in 1890 at Devonport Dockyard. HMS Ramillies (1915, Revenge class, 33,500 tons, main armament: eight 15-inch guns). When the war clouds broke over Europe the luxury ocean liner RMS Queen Mary was outward . 01.11.1944-21.01.1945 LV Ajax off Falmouth. Other initiatives undertaken in 1943 and early 1944 increased the RCN's presence in European waters. LRO (G) Served from 1968 - 1978 Served in HMS Sirius. 50th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings on D Day - 6th June 1944. HMS Swift from the right . HMS Swift (G46) was an S-class destroyer sunk by a mine off the Normandy beaches on 24 June 1944. These pages contain photographs and fact sheets. . However, she was not re-commissioned and was handed over to the Turkish Navy on 29 March 1958. BYMS 2202, Flotilla 165. 808 squadron was officially disbanded on arrival on the Clyde No longer required for service in the Royal Navy the majority of KHEDIVE's crew were drafted to RN Barracks; a steaming . Though mighty, the battle cruiser H.M.S. HMCS SIOUX R64 - Crew / N.O.K. Battleships. The Art of HMS Illustrious. Lt Cdr R J Hanson - HMS Ulysses. The destroyer was launched from the shipyard J. Samuel White in Cowes on 15 June 1943 and was put into service on 12 December 1943.. V class, commissioned 1943. 24 November 1944 HMCS Shawinigan while on independent anti-submarine patrol in the Cabot Strait, was torpedoed and sunk by U1228. She was transferred to the newly formed New Zealand Division in 1913 and was the first ship of the New Zealand Navy. George Swift HMS Icarus George Swift was my father. CHIEF PETTY OFFICER COXSWAIN Served from 1946 - 1979 Served in HMS Sirius. In early 1944 Swift saw service escorting Arctic Convoys to and from the Kola Inlet. Find relatives and loved ones via our database of over 39,000 crew lists. MHA are also gradually digitising their holdings of crew lists for 1881. 1933: Paraguay captures 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco. Thus the primary control kept working and secured throughout the action a high rate of hits on the enemy. AB (R) Served from 1986 - 1990 Served in HMS Sirius. Date: 1863 - 1913 Arrangement: The documents are stored by year in numerical sequence of registered number, as they were received, and have not been rearranged under the names of individual ships. The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. HMS Diamond was a Daring class destroyer launched on June 14, 1950, while HMS Swiftsure was a Minotaur class light cruiser launched on February 4, 1943. Cdr W S Donald - CO HMS Ulster. . 25 November 1950 HMCS Nootka leaves Halifax for the first of two tours of duty in Korea. Monitor. He set a magnificent example to the rest of the Director Tower crew, who all stood to their posts and made light of the incident. HMS Saumarez, Scorpion, Scourge, Serapis, Swift, HNoMS Stord, HNoMS Svenner HMS Savage (S and T class 1942) (1/1250) , HMS Scorpion (S and T class 1942) UV class Events were held at Padstow Harbour in Cornwall, in the grounds of Warwick Castle and at the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent. The MHA NL Crews Database contains over 30,000 entries taken from the crew lists of Newfoundland and Labrador registered vessels for 1915 to 1942. )1944: HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Instructional Department) 15.03.1944-(07. Could they or crew of HMS Impulsive, or anyone in Russian convoy JW57. Rear Admiral J O Roberts. Crew and Civilians Ordnance Artificers Gun Accident: 1858-1862 1887 . Richelieu class battleships (1940) France - Richelieu, Jean Bart, 2 more French top battleship Ordered in response to both the German Scharnhorst and the Italian Littorio, the Richelieu and jean Bart took up the essence of the previous design, but incorporated a much more powerful machinery to cope with a much higher armor.They definitely draw a line between battlecruisers and battleships. The passenger lists themselves are available at our office via the online databases listed below. In December 1942 I finished my ratings training then I went to sea in HMS Cumberland a County Class Cruiser of 10,000 tons and spent most of my time in the Arctic, including Iceland, Murmansk and . On 9 June, 1944, four German E-boats from Cherbourg were able to get past U.S. escorts and torpedo and sink LST-314 and damaged LST-376. Thrasher had been commissioned for service in 1941 and by 1944 she had torpedoed 11 merchant vessels, 4 supply ships and a tug totalling 40,000 tons. Thus the primary control kept working and secured throughout the action a high rate of hits on the enemy. Signed by : Captain J R Gower - CO HMS Swift. THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND CREW LISTS PROJECT. If . Laid down: 14 September 1942. T. Crew of HMS Tactician return home . HMS Swift: Mr A. List of Royal Navy Destroyers from 1893 to 1919. (Jim Borthwick's Comment: I made an awful job of piping. A five-man crew was protected by half-inch hull armor and one inch in the turret, which proved insufficient once the Germans learned the vehicle's shortcomings. The Battle of Jutland was a naval encounter between the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer on 31st May to 1st June 1916. On 10 Nov 1943, she was transferred to the RCN and commissioned as HMCS Giffard K402; named after a town in Quebec. Adrian Williams. P rovo William Parry Wallis was born in Halifax on 12 May . As a flotilla leader, her standard displacement was 20 tons heavier than other ships of her class. The history of the Destroyer from the first destroyer launched in 1893, HMS Havoc, to the destroyers launched in 1917. When requesting crew lists please quote the reference number and the year of the crew list required. The U-boat fleet sank large tonnages of Allied shipping, both warships and merchant ships. After working-up at Tobermory Giffard joined EG C-1 at Londonderry and on 15 Feb 1944, sailed to join her first convoy, ON.224. After working up . St Tudno with the Queenborough, Minesweepers was working off the Dutch coast and clearing passages into Rotterdam, Yjmuiden and Den Helder. USS Clark (DD-361), USS Case (DD-370), Cummings (DD-365), Shaw (DD-373) and Tucker (DD-374) , San Diego 1941 S class, commissioned 1943. 1782 1939-1945 1899-1902: S: back to the top. 25 August 1949. Laid down and launched as HMS Buddleia, she was renamed HMCS Giffard K402 in Sep 1943. This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. Answer: *twiddles fingers* Being unavailable for Force Z ( Prince of Wales, Repulse, and the escorting destroyers ) left those ships without fighter protection when the first two were lost to the air attacks. USCGC POINT SWIFT (WPB-82312) USCGC POINT THATCHER (WPB-82314) USCGC POINT TURNER (WPB-82365) (EX-POINT HOUGHTON) . Richard Barlow. HMS Blenheim (1761) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1761, reduced to a third rate in 1800 and wrecked in 1807. Hugh Pigot, and HMS Shelburne (12), Lt. David Hope, captured USS sloop Frolic (22), Joseph Bainbridge, off Matanzas Point, Cuba USS Frolic was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy in 1814. 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