1 9 3
9
September
Deployed
with D19 at Harwich for convoy escort
aid patrol duty in
North
Sea.
Detached for duty
In Western Approaches.
October
Deployed
on convoy defence in Atlantic.
to
(For
details of naval activities in Horn
Waters during 1939-40 see ENGAGE THE
December
ENEMY MORE CLOSELY by Corelli
Barnett).
1 9 4
0
January
Passage to
Gibraltar
13th
Joined HM Sloop ENCHANTRESS, HM
Destroyers BROKE, KEPPEL and
WALKER
as escort for
inward Convoy HG15F during passage
to Liverpool.
19th
Detached from HG15F with escort on
arrival at
Liverpool
31st
Deployed with HM Destroyers WHITSHED
and WITHERINGTON as
escort for
outward
Convoy OG16 during passage to
Gibraltar
on formation in SW Approaches.
Detached later
and took passage with escort ships to
join inward Convoy HG16 in passage
from Gibraltar.
Escorted HG16 in
SW Approaches with HM Destroyer
WOLVERINE.
February
3rd
Detached from HG16 with HMS
WOLVERINE
on arrival at
Liverpool.
24th
Deployed with HM Destroyers MACKAY and
WHITSHED to join HM
Sloops BIDEFORD
and LEITH in escort for inward Convoy HG19 during passage from
Gibraltar
to
Liverpool
in
SW approaches.
27th
Detached from HG19 with escort on
arrival at Liverpool
.
March
Convoy defence in Western
Approaches Command in continuation.
to
April
May
Pennant
Number for visual signalling purposes
changed to I41 to conform with new
identities
for all RN ships.
12th
Sent to Amsterdam
to collect
stocks of industrial diamonds.
(Operation
AMSTERDAM - See ADVENTURE IN DIAMONDS by D
Walker).
June
Deployed
on convoy escort and patrol duty in
North Sea.
6th
Detached for escort of HM Auxiliary
Minelayer TEVIOT BANK and HM Minelayer
PLOVER with HM
Destroyer GALLANT for Minelay in
East Coast Barrier.
(Operation
SN11).
(For
details of all minelaying operations
see Naval Staff History (MINING).
10th
Escorted HMS TEVIOT BANK and HMS
PLOVER
with HMS GALLANT for further
minelay in
East Coast Barrier (Operation SN12)
14th
Escorted HMS TEVIOT BANK and HMS
PLOVER
with HMS GALLANT for third
minelay in
east Coast Barrier (Operation SN14)
Resumed Flotilla
escort and patrol duties on
completion.
July
Flotilla duties in continuation.
August
Additionally
deployed on anti-invasion patrol in
North Sea and Eastern Channel
28th
Came under dive
bombing attack at
Dover
and sustained
damage to turbines.
September
Taken
in hand for repair at
Chatham
Resumed Flotilla
duties on completion.
October
North
Sea
convoy escort and patrol in
continuation.
16th
Detached for escort
of HM Monitor EREBUS during
bombardment of Calais.
28th
Detonated magnetic mine off Sunk LV
and
disabled.
Towed to
Sheerness.
November
Transferred
to London commercial shipyard for repair.
Paid
off and taken in hand by Green and Silley
Weir.
December
Under repair.
1 9 4
1
January
Under
repair
to
March
April
18th
Re-commissioned.
19th
Prepared for operational service
Carried out poet
refit harbour and sea trials.
22nd
Passage to Scapa
Flow
for work-up
with HM Destroyer ST ALBANS.
24th
Exercised with HM Cruisers
MANCHESTER
and
EDINBURGH
during gunnery shoot.
May
7th
Escorted
mercantile to
Aberdeen
from Lerwick.
19th
Joined HM Battleship KING GEORGE V, HM
Battlecruiser HOOD and five
Home Fleet
destroyer
for exercises.
17th
Part of escort for
HM Battleship PRINCE OF WALES
during shoot.
19th
Passage to London
for repair of
defects arising since refit.
21st
Taken in hand for
repair.
June
6th
Joined 16th Destroyer Flotilla at
Harwich for North Sea Convoy escort.
13th
Under air attack
during escort of
North
Sea
convoy.
25th
Detached to escort
HMS TEVIOT BANK for minelay in East
Coast Barrier. (Operation
BS65).
Rejoined Flotilla
on completion.
July
Flotilla
North
Sea
escort duties in continuation.
(For
details of North Sea Convoy escort see
THREE CORVETTES by
N
Monsarrat).
27th
Deployed on E-Boat patrols in addition
to escort duties.
August
Flotilla duties in continuation at
Harwich.
September
2nd
Taken in hand for
Repair at
Chatham.
12th
Passage to rejoin
Flotilla at Harwich.
13th
Resumed Flotilla
duties.
October
North
Sea
escort and patrol in
continuation.
14th
Taken in hand for
repair at
Chatham.
November
Harwich deployment in continuation.
3rd
Withdrawn for
Boiler cleaning.
16th
Resumed escort and patrol duties.
December
4th
Sustained structural damaged after
hitting mine which did not explode.
8th
Under repair at
Harwich.
12th
Resumed Flotilla
duties.
1 9 4
2
January
North
Sea
escort and patrol in
continuation.
14th
Detached to escort
HM Cruiser
SUFFOLK
from Rosyth
to
Aberdeen.
15th
Resumed convoy escort with HM Escort
Destroyer WHADDON.
17th
Destroyed Do 217
aircraft in
Thames
estuary.
18th
Convoy escort
duty.
February
12th
Joined Flotilla exercises with HM
Destroyers CAMPBELL, VIVACIOUS,
WORCESTER of
21st
Destroyer Flotilla and HM Destroyers
MACKAY, WHITSHED and WALPOLE of 16th
Destroyer
Flotilla.
12th
Diverted to make torpedo attacks on
German warships SCHARNHORST and
GNEISENAU and
PR1NZ
EUGEN during their passage from
Brest
to
Wilhelmshaven.
Developed
machinery defect and withdrawn from
operation.
Came under air
attack by WELLINGTON
aircraft
during passage to Harwich.
(Note:
Driven off by German fighters!)
20th
Under repair.
March
On
completion resumed Flotilla convoy
defence and patrol duties.
13th
Deployed with HM Destroyers
BLENCATHRA,
CALPE,
FERNIE and
WINDSOR
to support an
interception
operation by Light Coastal Forces to
attack
German raider MICHEL
(For
details see THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW
SEAS by P Scott and Hold THE NARROW
SEA
by P Smith).
(Note:
MICHEL (SCHIFF 28) eluded attacks and
was sunk by
US
submarine TARPON east of
Yokohama
on 17th
October
1943).
15th
Resumed Convoy Escort and patrol duty
in
North
Sea.
April
Convoy
defence and patrol in continuation.
to
May
June
29th
Detached to take part in Combined
Operations exercise and embarked
Canadian troops in
Solent
(Note:
This was in preparation for the attack
at
Dieppe
which failed (Operation
JUBILEE)
July
5th
Resumed Flotilla
duties on return to Harwich.
August
1st
Detached for service with Home Fleet
and took passage to Scapa Flow with HM Destroyers
MONTROSE, WINDSOR
and WORCESTER.
3rd
Took part in
Exercises with Home Fleet ships.
10th
Escorted HM Cruiser
LIVERPOOL
from
Scapa
Flow
to Rosyth.
14th
Took passage to Hvalfjord,
Iceland
with
MONTROSE.
16th
Joined HM Battleship DUKE OF
YORK,
HM Cruiser
LONDON,
HM Destroyers
IMPULSIVE and US
Navy ships.
17th
Carried out Anti-submarine patrol off
Iceland
.
20th
Escorted HM Cruisers
LONDON
and
CUMBERLAND
with HM Destroyers IMPULSIVE
and
MONTROSE.
Detached for
anti-submarine search operation.
24th
Carried out
further anti-submarine patrols off Iceland.
25th
Boiler clean
at
Hvalfjord.
28th
Deployed for anti submarine operations
off Iceland
with HM Destroyers WORCESTER
and
OFFA.
September
2nd
HM Battleship ANSON arrived for
Russian
Convoy covering duty.
5th
A/S patrols off
Iceland.
6th
Met Russian Convoy PQ18(?)
on passage to
Iceland
from Loch Ewe.
Sustained
damage to the underwater Dome unit of
the Anti-Submarine detection equipment
(ASDIC) and
detached to return to Iceland.
9th
Passage to
Scapa
Flow
for repair
11th
Under repair at
Scapa
Flow
17th
Escorted ss
LADY OF MAN
to Lerwick.
18th
Deployed on patrol
off Lerwick.
25th
Nominated for
repair to underwater fittings at
Tilbury.
26th
Passage to Thames.
28th
Taken in hand for
repair.
October
Under
repair
8th
Resumed East Coast convoy defence and
patrol with 16th Destroyer Flotilla at
Harwich with
HM Escort
Destroyers QUORN, HAMBLEDON and
ATHERSTONE.
9th
In action against E-Boats
21st
Boiler Cleaning.
26th
Resumed Flotilla
duties.
December
1st
Deployed for
North
Sea
convoy defence and patrol
duties
19th
Nominated far detached duty with Home
Fleet.
21st
Passage to Scapa
Flow
with HM
Destroyers MACKAY, MONTROSE and WORCESTER.
23rd
Escorted HM Battleship HOWE, HM
Cruiser
CARLISLE
and HM Auxiliary Merchant
Cruiser
FORFAR with HMS
MACKAY, HMS MONTROSE and HMS
WORCESTER.
1 9 4
3
January
2nd
Carried out exercises
with HMS WINDSOR.
3rd
Boiler clean
at Scapa
Flow.
8th
Deployed as Local Escort for returning
Russian Convoy RA51 during final stage
of passage from
Iceland
to Loch
Ewe.
(For details of all the Russian Convoy
operations see CONVOYS TO
RUSSIA
by R A
Ruegg,
ARCTIC
CONVOYS by R Woodman, CONVOY I by P
Keep and THE RUSSIAN CONVOYS
by B Sohoefield).
9th
Carried out
exercises with Polish destroyer ORP
PIORUN.
11th
Took part in Home Fleet exercises with
HM Battleships HOWE and MALAYA, HM Cruisers
BELFAST,
SUSSEX,
HM
Destroyers LEDBURY, MONTROSE, EASTON
and US Navy
ships.
13th
Took passage to
Iceland
with passengers and mail for HM
Cruisers CUMBERLAND and
NORFOLK.
21st
Returned to Scapa
Flow
for repair to
weather damage.
22nd
Under repair including
docking.
30th
On completion deployed at
Scapa
Flow
as Emergency Destroyer.
February
1st
Passage to
Harwich with HMS MONTROSE to rejoin
Flotilla.
3rd
Resumed convoy escort and patrol duty
with Flotilla.
4th
Deployed patrols to intercept E-Boats
in Thames Estuary.
6th
Escorted convoy to
Dover.
8th
Deployed for North
Sea
convoy
defence.
March
Nominated
for refit.
7th
De-ammunitioned
at Sheerness prior to refit.
8th
Taken in hand for
refit at
Chatham.
April
Under refit.
24th
Resumed escort and patrol duties in
Flotilla with HM Destroyers
CATTISTOCK,
BLEASDALE
and Norwegian GLAISDALE
May
North
Sea Convoy defence and patrol in
continuation.
to
July
August
25th
In action with E-Boats during patrol
(For
details of increase in enemy E-Boat
activity (See
BATTLE
OF THE NARROW SEAS by
P Scott).
September
North
Sea Convoy defence and patrol in
continuation.
October
6th
Carried out torpedo firing exercises
with HM Destroyers MONTROSE and
WORCESTER
against HM
Cruisers DAUNTLESS and
KENT.
November
North Seas duties with Flotilla in
continuation.
to
December
1 9 4
4
January
Flotilla duties in continuation.
February
Nominated
for refit by HM Dockyard Chatham.
21st
Taken in hand for
refit.
March
Under
refit.
April
Carried
out post refit harbour and sea trials.
29th
Resumed Flotilla
duties at Harwich.
30th
Convoy defence and patrol in
continuation.
May
Nominated
for escort of convoys for Normandy
landings based In Thames
(Operation
Neptune)
Allocated
to 133rd Escort Group with HM Corvette
ORCHIS and two Motor Launches from
Light
Coastal Forces.
(For
details of activities prior to and
during Normandy landings see OPERATION
NEPTUNE
by
K
Edwards, LANDINGS IN NORMANDY June
1944 (HMSO) and D DAY SHIPS by
J
de Winser.
.
Took part in preparatory Convoy
defence, patrol and other
exercises.
June
3rd
Escorted Convoy
ETC1
(6 AA ships and and
Ammunition Supply Ship) from Southend.
4th
Returned to Southend after
NEPTUNE
landings postponed for 24
hours.
5th
Passage with
ETC1
to position off Beachy
Head
and under fire when in Dover
Straits from
shore
batteries.
On
arrival in Solent
detached for escort of later convoys
from
Solent.
6th
Commenced Daily Cycle of escort duty
for convoys to beachhead beginning
with Convoy
ETC3.
8th
Daily Cycle in continuation.
July
On
completion of NEPTUNE
regained deployed for Channel convoy
escort.
August
1st
Resumed convoy escort and petrol with
Flotilla in Channel and North Sea.
17th
In action with E-Boats with HM
Destroyer
OPPORTUNE and 4 MTB's during defence convoy
off
Dover.
September
Flotilla duties in continuation.
October
8th
Deployed on patrol to intercept
E-Boats in North
Sea..
November
Convoy
defence and patrol in North Sea in continuation.
22nd
In action against E-Boats in south of
Scheldt
with HM Frigate CURZON and
Light Coastal Forces
craft.
Two
E-Boats sunk and another damaged.
December
Convoy
defence and patrol duties in
continuation.
12th
During patrol with FM Frigates CURZON,
RIOU and TORRINGTON
engaged three E-Boats
minelaying
NW of Ostend sinking S192.
1 9 4
5
January
Deployed
for Anti-E-Boat patrols.
6th
Hit and exploded floating mine abreast
forward Boiler Room on port side.,
Two
of ships company
were killed and five seriously
injured.
Flooding
caused list and ship was disabled
without propulsion or electric power.
Initial tow to
Sheerness by HM Frigate RUTHERFORD
taken over by
tugs.
10th
Transferred to
Chatham
Dockyard.
Declared
Constructive Total Loss on survey and
placed on Disposal List.
February
8th
Sold for breaking
up.
