Postby Brian Holmes » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:43 pm
MGB_632 Kris Cruisers (1934) Ltd, Isleworth 12/42
For an action off Terschelling 26/5/43
DSM Sto1 William Wilson P/KX155257
New Year Honours 1944
MID Tel James Dickinson P/JX234469
For an action off Smiths Knoll 24/10/43
MID ACMtrMch Sydney James William Byrne P/MX116251
For Operation Neptune - for gallantry and devotion to duty during the initial landings in Normandy
DSC TLt Cecil William Ford RNVR
DSM PO John George Huntley P/JX144954
For an action in the Normandy assault area 4/7/44
DSO TALtCdr Donald Gould Bradford RNVR
DSC* TLt Cecil William Ford RNVR
DSM ACMtrMch Jack Bowman Sidebottom P/MX502804
DSM MtrMch Peter Chambers Roe P/MX634421
For a cumulative series of actions in the Channel since 4/44 (Gazette Date - 14/11/44)
MID TLt Cecil William Ford RNVR
MID PO John George Huntley P/JX144954
MID AB Robert Mathews C/JX351892
Further award for Operation Neptune
MID LSea Robert Kenneth Forrester P/JX295085
Known Crew (MGB 632)
TLt P A Berthon RNVR (Commanding Officer)
Known Crew (MTB 632)
Donald Gould Bradford RNVR TSLt 27/5/40 HMS Malvernian (armed boarding vessel) (ship attacked by aircraft and abandoned; picked up by a Spanish fishing vessel and interned, but later escaped) 17/12/40 – 19/7/41 TLt 27/5/41 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches) 8/10/42 Commanding Officer MGB 333 9/42 - 9/43 TALtCdR 1/9/43 Commanding Officer MTB 617 and Senior Officer 31st MTB Flotilla 9/43 Senior Officer 55th MTB Flotilla in MTB 632. Staff Officer, Coastal Forces, British Assault Area (Courseulles) 8/44 TACdR 1944 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.) 10/9/44 Coastal Forces Mobile Unit 2 [HMS Fox (Lerwick)] 4/6/45
TLt Charles Ortzen Abbott RNVR in MTB 504 15/03/43 First Lieutenant, MTB 727 22/11/43. Commanding Officer MGB 607 15/3/43 – 10/43 Commanding Officer MTB 632 30/10/44 MID 1944. Born 28/5/18 at North Bierley, Yorkshire and died in Ipswich 9/88
TLt Cecil William Ford RNVR (Commanding Officer 1944). Appointed to MTB 771 in command 2/45 Two DSCs 1944 MID 1944 MID 1945
TLt William George Dalziel RNVR Navigator MTB 630 4/43 - Wounded in action 30/4/43 TLt 14/2/43 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) 4/43 First Lieutenant MTB 632 1/10/43 First Lieutenant MTB 771 7/44 First Lieutenant MTB 790 2/7/45 Commanding Officer BYMS 2006 17/12/45
ACMtrMch Sydney James William Byrne P/MX116251
ACMtrMch Jack Bowman Sidebottom P/MX502804
PO John George Huntley P/JX144954
MtrMch Peter Chambers Roe P/MX634421
AB Robert Mathews C/JX351892
AB Stanley Roebuck C/JX 352495 Killed in a surface action 24/4/44 aged 20. Son of Tom and Edith Roebuck, of Sheffield. Buried in Sheffield (Burngreave) Cemetery Sec. F.2. Cons. Grave 111
Sto1 William Wilson P/KX155257
Tel James Dickinson P/JX234469
War Activities
12/42 31st MGB Flotilla Based on Great Yarmouth
30/4/43 MGB 605, MGB 606, MGB 610, MGB 612 and MGB 621 with MTB 624, MTB 630 and MTB 632 depart Great Yarmouth to patrol the northern section of the Dutch coast.
MGB 621 is compelled to turn back with an engine defect. MGB 606 and MGB 612 with MTB 624 patrol the outer convoy routes off Vlieland and Terschelling.
MGB 605 and MGB 610 with MTB 630 and MTB 632 patrol the inner convoy routes.
0500 Both groups turn for home and shortly afterwards MGB 605 and MGB 610 with MTB 630 and MTB 632 sight four German vessels and close hoping that they will be taken for E Boats. MGB 605 and MGB 610 with MTB 630 and MGB 632 engage with gunfire and severely damage three Flak Lighters. A German account states the force was four boats from 12. Vorposten-Flotilla and. V 1241 / Stangenwalde was sunk
26-7/5/43 MTB 628, MTB 629 and MTB 632 with MGB 607 engage four German armed trawlers off Terschelling. One trawler is severely damaged and return fire damages MTB 629 and kills PO James Marshall.
10/43 55th MTB Flotilla
Based on Great Yarmouth
24/10/43 An action off Smith’s Knoll involving MTB 442, MTB 606, MTB 610, MTB 629, MTB 630, MTB 632, MTB 650 and MTB 652
24-5/10/43 32 German S-Boats of the 2, 4, 6 and 8 S-Flotillas sortie from Ijmuiden and attack Convoy FN.1160 off Cromer. The Convoy is escorted by the destroyers Pytchley, Worcester, Eglinton, Campbell and Mackay, MGB 609, MGB 610, MGB 607, MGB 603, MGB 315, MGB 327, ML 250 and ML 517. HMS Mackay rams and sinks S 63. MGB 603 and MGB 607 hit on the boats of the 4. S-Flotilla on the return leg and sink S 88 which was standing by the damaged S63
Transferred to Portsmouth
23-24/4/44 An action with three enemy destroyers off Cherbourg. )Potentially involved)
6/44 Operation Neptune
Invasion of Normandy (With the the Eastern Task Force)
55th MTB Flotilla Based at Portsmouth
MTB 617, MTB 621, MTB 624, MTB 628, MTB 629, MTB 630, MTB 632, MTB 650, MTB 652, MTB 668, MTB 682 and MTB 773
1-2/7/44 MTB 632 and MTB 650 of the 55th MTB-Flotilla attack a group of boats from the Tenth R Boat Flotilla (Kptlt. Nau) off Fécamp and sink R 180. Afterwards MTB 632 is in another action with minesweepers and out of action.
4/7/44 An action in the Normandy assault area. MTB 632 and MTB 650 intercept five R Boats and four E Boats. Two R Boats are hit by torpedoes. R180 sinks in position 49 46N 000 20E. The Germans turn back for Le Havre. MTB 632 and MTB 650 then intercept and attack two German M Class minesweepers damaging them and forcing them to retire. MTB 632 suffers a fire and MTB 650 is severely damaged and both boats limp back to the anchorage. MTB 650 is subsequently paid off.
11/4/45 MTB 632 attacks and sinks a German Seehund midget submarine
Post War Fate
10/45 For disposal