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  HMS Intrepid
The minelayers were from the 20th Destroyer Flotilla and consisted of the destroyers HMS Express, HMS Esk, HMS Icarus, HMS Intrepid and HMS Ivanhoe.
The minelayers were escorted by members of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla consisted of the destroyers HMS Kelvin, HMS Jupiter and HMS Vortigern.
HMS Express struck a mine and was badly damaged, HMS Esk went to her assistance and hit mine and sank immediately, HMS Ivanhoe also went to her assistance and hit a mine and was badly damaged, so much so she she had to be sunk by HMS Kelvin.
www.hmscavalier.org.uk /D10   (242 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Maori of the Tribal class
On 30th November, Maori and HMS Inglefield were on one of these patrols when they were ordered to help the submarine HMS Triad which was in difficulty off the coast of Norway.
HMS Maori, HMS Tartar and HMS Mashona were sent to the Faeroe Islands on 20 June 1940 in order to requisition the ships.
G.H. Stokes, DSC, RN), HMS Maori (Cdr R.E. Courage, RN), HMS Legion (Cdr.
uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4425.html   (1468 words)

  
 HMS Ganges Association History Royal Navy
Admiralty orders of 5th June 1816 directed her to be built as a facsimile of HMS Canopus which was the ex French ship 'Franklin' which fought at the Battle of the Nile, 1st August 1798.
HMS Ganges sailed to Devonport for keel to be scraped.
By 1901 sufficient beds were ready ashore to enable HMS Caroline to discharge her patients and return to Chatham to be fitted out as an overflow training ship for the Ganges with accommodation for 60 boys.
www.hmsgangesassoc.org /frigate.html   (1394 words)

  
 Armed Forces Friends
Subject: HMS Inglefield/ Research on second world war destroyer and her crew.
HMS Inglefield/ Research on second world war destroyer and her crew.
I have contacted several survivors and am keen to know the history of her crew for historical research purposes..one survivor is keen to write a book about the ship Mr Eric Alley the radar operator.
www.armedforcesfriends.co.uk /forum.php?forum=4&fpage=2&msg=492   (181 words)

  
 Bismarck
On 24 May 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen[?], she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales, which was still being worked up.
On 26 May, at dusk, she was attacked by British Swordfish torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
On the early morning of 27 May 1941 she was engaged in an eighty-eight minute battle with HMS King George V[?], HMS Rodney[?], HMS Norfolk[?], and HMS Dorsetshire[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bismarck.html   (760 words)

  
 Navy News - Jack to Jack - Where are you now? - I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
HMS Impregnable: The Chatham/Portsmouth/Devonport Divisions of the truly exceptional and unparalleled HMS Impregnable Association give a welcome to all ex boy seamen and crew who served onboard the famous training establishment and extend the ever welcome hand of unrivaled friendship to old shipmates.
HMS Intrepid 1943: Albert Poulter is trying to contact any of his shipmates who survived the sinking of Intrepid by German Ju88 bombers on September 26-27 in the Port Lakki, island of Leros in the Dodecanese.
HMS Intrepid: Trying to contact shipmates that are survivors of the sinking of HMS Intrepid by German Ju88 bombers on September 26-27, 1943, in the Port Lakki Island of Leros in the Dodecanese.
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 Order of Battle - The Battle of the Barents Sea - 31 December 1942
HMS Anson, Cumberland and 3 destroyers reached their covering position S of the convoy on 27th, where they patrolled until the 29th to guard against an attack from the S. iv.
HMS Bramble and Northern Gem, SS Chester Valley and one straggler were still not with the convoy, but sailing to the north.
HMS Vizalma, Lt. J.R. Angleback, RNVR, escorting SS Chester Valley, which had became separated from the convoy in a storm on 28th December, and was proceeding to Murmansk independently of the convoy.
www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWII_Atlantic/OOB_WWII_Barents_Sea.htm   (2234 words)

  
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The cruisers HMS Exeter & HMAS Perth with destroyers HMS Jupiter, Electra & Encounter sail from Batavia to Surabaja.
Despite the fact that destroyers HMS Impulsive & Wanderer were quickly on the scene to pick up survivors, only 16 survivors could be recovered from the freezing waters.
HMS Gloucester, escorting USS Missouri in Arabian Gulf, destroys an incoming Iraqi Silkworm missile aimed at Missouri with two Sea Dart missiles.
www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/february/25Feb.txt   (2089 words)

  
 wreck archive history
HMS Scylla was an Exocet Leander class frigate, the last frigate to be built in Devonport Royal Dockyard in 1968.
Torrent HMS hit first, Surprise HMS went to assist and was mined, and as Tornado HMS tried to get clear, she detonated two mines and sank with only one survivor.
Svenner HMS; Norwegian S-class destroyer, built in June 1943 as the HMS Shark; 1.700 tons; 110x11x3; 33kn; Svenner was struck by German E-boats torpedo amidships, when participating at the invasion in the Ouistreham area in Sword Beach.
users.pandora.be /tree/db/histories/histories_s_z.html?en   (13331 words)

  
 HMS MAORI
That night, Nasmos was evacuated although HMS BISON and HMS AFRIDI were sunk during the subsequent withdrawal.
It was decided to invoke the "Right of Angary", an ancient international law which in essence, permitted the property of neutral states to be seized and destroyed if it was deemed that the property would be employed as a weapon of war by a belligerent.
MAORI, HMS TARTAR and HMS MASHONA were sent to the Faeroe Islands on 20th June in order to requisition the ships.
hmcshaida.ca /maori.html   (1296 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-HMS Volunteer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In a record of her movements that I have managed to trace there is a mention of the volunteer being a local escort for operation medium august 1940, escort to hms fiji sept 1st after she was torpedoed,and sept 23rd ship damaged in Dakar area.
HMS Fiji, was not at Dakar on the 23rd.
HMS Volunteer, was also not present at Dakar, the 10 Royal Navy destroyers in Operation Menace were: HM ships, Echo, Eclipse, Escapade, Faulknor, Foresight, Forester, Fortune, Fury, Greyhound and Inglefield.
ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/HMSVolunteer.html   (610 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Inglefield of the I class
The German submarine U-45 was sunk south-west of Ireland, in position 50º58'N, 12º57'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Inglefield (Capt. P.
The German submarine U-18 attacks the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Inglefield (Capt. P.
The German submarine U-63 tried to attack convoy HN-14, in doing so she was sighted by the British submarine HMS Narwhal (Lt.Cdr.
www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4411.html   (171 words)

  
 Navy News - Jack to Jack - Calling Old Shipmates - G to I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
HMS Hermes: Looking for Bob Slimmon, Pusser Hill who were on the Hermes in Barrow-in Furness 1959 to see if they are the same guys that Terry Waiting knew on other ships even though he was on the Hermes in the supply Branch at the same time.
HMS Hardy: Steve (Larry) Leatham is seeking Clive Bryan, orginally from Stoke on Trent, and both in the stoker intake of Feb. 73.
HMS Hardy (1944): Rolfe Monteith (Midshipman RCN at the time) would like to hear from any survivors when the ship was torpedoed in January '44 while escorting a convoy to Murmansk.He is in contact with Larry Mutton who was a 5th Class ERA at the time.
www.navynews.co.uk /cos/cosgtoi.asp   (3387 words)

  
 H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood - The History of H.M.S. Hood: Part 1 of The Pursuit of Bismarck and Sinking ...
As the image Comparison of H.M.S. Hood and Battleship Bismarck (below) indicates, she was of comparable size and main armament to the largest British warship of that time, H.M.S. Hood.
Meanwhile, back at Scapa Flow, Admiral Tovey was considering the best means of covering a German warship breakout: On 18 May, the cruiser H.M.S. Suffolk, on patrol in the Denmark Strait, was ordered to keep a special watch on the passage close to the ice pack.
On 19 May, H.M.S. Norfolk, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral (RADM) W.F. Wake-Walker, RADM Commanding First Cruiser Squadron (CS1), was ordered to proceed from Hvalfjord, Iceland and relieve Suffolk.
www.hmshood.com /history/denmarkstrait/bismarck1.htm   (4360 words)

  
 HMS Electra information
HMS Electra was an E Class Destroyer, one of 9, commissioned and built in 1934.
left Scapa escorting HMS Queen Elizabeth with HMS Inglefield to r/v with HMS Hood (for interception of 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau'), returning to Scapa on 23rd March.
HMS Electra, while crossing the Java Sea together with HM Ships Encounter, Exeter, Jupiter and several US Destroyers, was attacked by a large force of Japanese destroyers (2nd and 4th Destroyer Flotilla) including the 'Nachi', 'Hagura', 'Naka', 'Asagumo' and 'Jintsu'.
www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /electra.html   (558 words)

  
 Naval Actions and losses 1940
HMS Ivanhoe struck a mine and sank in the mouth of the River Texel.
Destroyer HMS Javelin of the 5th destroyer flotilla torpedoed by German destroyers Richard Beitzen, Lody and Galster in the Channel.
Destroyer HMS Hyperion struck a mine and was torpedoed by the destroyer HMS Janus.
www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW240.html   (1763 words)

  
 HMS TARTAR
First, she accompanied HMS INGLEFIELD while taking King George VI to Scapa Flow.
The Tribal then headed westward to screen the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES that was bringing back Winston Churchill from his Atlantic Charter meeting with President Roosevelt.
On 31st August, TARTAR helped to screen HMS NELSON, HMS RODNEY and HMS ORION in the Straits of Messina while the big ships bombarded coastal batteries in preparation for the landings on the Italian mainland.
hmcshaida.ca /tartar.html   (1212 words)

  
 Bermuda's Royal Navy base at Ireland Island began in 1815
HMS Pickle was the fastest and one of the hardiest ships in the Royal Navy.
In 1808, three years after she achieved her claim to fame at the Battle of Trafalgar, the Bermuda-built cedar schooner HMS Pickle struck a shoal when entering the Spanish port of Cadiz and was lost.
He commanded HMS Vindictive on the North America and West Indies Station from 1845 to 1848.
www.bermuda-online.org /rnd.htm   (4265 words)

  
 H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Remembering Hood - Excerpt from "Flagship Hood, ...
Special thanks to H.M.S. Hood Association President Ted Briggs for allowing us to post his half of the book "Flagship Hood." He co-authored the book with the late Alan Coles in 1985.
During sixteen months in the whitened sepulchre of HMS Ganges, the boys' training ship at Shotley Gate, Ipswich, I had hardly dared to hope that I would be sent to the ship of my dreams at the end of my 'apprenticeship ashore'.
I had inched my way to the end of the yardarm to retain the Inglefield clip when the safety valves in the engine-room were blown.
www.hmshood.com /crew/remember/tedflagship.htm   (22628 words)

  
 HMS Intrepid (D10) at AllExperts
HMS Intrepid (D10) was an I-class destroyer laid down by J. Samuel White and Company, Limited, at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 13 January 1936, launched on 17 December 1936 and commissioned on 29 July 1937.
She participated in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, and in Operation Pedestal, the escorting of a convoy to Malta in August 1942.
Intrepid was attacked by German Ju 88 aircraft and sank off Leros Island in the Aegean Sea on 27 September 1943.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_intrepid_(d10).htm   (198 words)

  
 4 May 1940
Mark Horan adds: HMS Ark Royal departs Scapa Flow at 1620, escorted by the AA cruiser HMS Curlew, and six destroyers, HMS Inglefield, HMS Sikh, HMS Mashona, HMS Tartar, HMS Jaguar, and HMS Encounter.
Meanwhile HMS Glorious arrives at Greenock at 1630, for reprovisioning, rearming, and to prepare for her new mission - ferrying 18 Hurricane Is of 46 Squadron, RAF, to Norway.
At the same time, HMS Furious, completing the repairs on her battered turbines, is perparing to re-embark the reconstituted 263 Squadron, RAF with 18 Gladiator IIs for the same task.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/05/04.htm   (253 words)

  
 Sea Rescue page. Aircraft information Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
HMS Bulldog, the destroyer which in 1941 salvaged a German Enigma machine from a stranded German U-boat U-110.
Crew of walrus L2299, 700 sqdn 11.1.1941, HMS Gloucester, walrus, returned ship to find it under attack by Ju87, ordered to ditch alongside HMS Diamiond and after the crew were rescued it sank the aircraft by gunfire.
Quigg, JA Lt 813 wildcat sqdn from HMS Campania.
www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/AirSeaRescue/FAASeaRescue.html   (5925 words)

  
 The Inglefield Family Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Paul Inglefield is a research professor at Clark University.
Sir Edward Inglefield was a Rear Admiral in the British Navy in the 1800's.
HMS Inglefield, a World War II British destroyer, was sunk by German planes in the Mediterranean in 1945.
www.inglefield.com   (145 words)

  
 Dawn of the Smart Bomb
The Hs-293 was operationally deployed with KampfGeschwader 100 (KG 100) in the Mediterranean and KampfGeschwader 40 (KG 40) in France, for antishipping strike operations.
Shortly after, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Warspite sustained heavy damage after taking three hits by Fritz X rounds, which caused the penetration of six decks and blew a hole in the hull, putting the ship out action until the Normandy landings and killing nine crew.
The Fritz-X was also claimed to have been used to destroy the bridge at Pontaubault, to stop the advance of the US 6th Armoured Division, in August 1944 [click for more....
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
HMS Imogen (D-44) was an I class destroyer laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 18 January 1936, launched on 30 October 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937.
Imogen attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-42 south-west of Ireland on 13 October 1939 in company with the destroyer HMS Ilex, and U-63 in the North Sea while in company with the destroyer HMS Inglefield and the submarine HMS Narwhal on 25 February 1940.
HMS Imogen collided with the cruiser HMS Glasgow and sank off Pentland Firth on 16 July 1940.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /HMS_Imogen   (144 words)

  
 HMS Ivanhoe (D16) at AllExperts
HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Limited, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 11 February 1937 and commissioned on 24 August 1937.
Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers Intrepid and Inglefield.
Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast, and sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands in Holland on 1 September 1940.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_ivanhoe_(d16).htm   (162 words)

  
 History of the Royal Navy Destroyer
HMS St Mary's (ex USS Doran, USS Bagley)
Became HMS Harvester 1940 lost 11th march 1943 sunk by U-432, north Atlantic
60 crew members were lost 10th January 1941 when HMS Gallant struck a mine during the Malta Coonvoys.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /destroyers.htm   (430 words)

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