Postby Brian Holmes » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:47 pm
MTB_46 J S White, Cowes Isle of Wight 23/06/41
Known Crew
TSLt Paul Alured Berthon RNVR First Lieutenant MTB 30 09/40 Commanding Officer MTB 31 11/40 – 11/41 Commanding Officer MTB 46 23/03/42 Commanding Officer MTB 219 DSC 1941 MID 1940 HMS Hornet 1945
TLt J C Fearnley RNVR Commanding Officer 08/02/43
TSLt R M Card RNVR First Lieutenant 13/06/42
TASLt G P M Bullar RNVR First Lieutenant 31/05/43
TASLt H F Cooper RNVR First Lieutenant 11/10/43
AB Stanley Edward Barker C/JX 140663 (Died 19/9/42). Son of John and Annie Barker, of Tottenham. Buried in Tottenham and Wood Green Cemetery
Wartime Activities
5th MTB Flotilla
MTB 42, MTB 43, MTB 44, MTB 45, MTB 46, MTB 47 and MTB 48
7/41 At Portsmouth
1/42 At Buckie
Served at HMS St Christopher the training base at Fort William
11/44 For Sale
Post War Fate
ML_444 Thomson and Balfour, Bo’ness 26/9/41
Known Crew
TLt D M Johnson RNVR Commanding Officer 15/1/42
TSLt T W Prentice RNVR 6/9/43
Wartime Activities
Mediterranean
11/42 Operation Torch - Invasion of Algeria
22/5/44 Engine Room Explosion off Maddalena, Italy. CTL
10/44 For disposal
ML_356 Anglo-American Nile Tourist Company, Cairo 10/7/42
For operations in the Aegean 9 - 11/43
MID TLt Kenneth Lewis Hugh Lloyd RNVR
Known Crew
TLt Kenneth Lewis Hugh Lloyd RNVR (Commanding Officer 1943)
Ord Thomson, Ronald Gordon C/JX 556533 ML356 died cause unknown 24/12/1944 aged 19 Son of Harry and Elsie Thomson, of Norton-on-Tees, Co. Durham. Buried in East Mudros Military Cemetery Plot
Raymond Clifford Allen ex PO P/JX164160 He also served on HMS Tetcott 1941-42 HMS Start Bay 1945-46 HMS Pelican1946-47
Wartime Activities
5/2/43 U-617 shadowed the convoy AW-22, consisting of four steamers and four escorts from grid CO92 to CO67. At 08.02 hours, the U-boat torpedoed and sank the Henrik and Corona.
The Corona (Master Einar Endresen) was hit by one torpedo and 15 minutes later by another on the starboard side. The foc´sle deck line split to keel and from keel to about 15 feet from deckline port side. The collision bulkhead was fractured and foc´sle deck dropped 12 inchs from aft side windlass to stem. All seven Norwegian officers, 40 Chinese crewmen, the Egyptian messboy, six British gunners and 49 army personnel as passengers abandoned ship. The master, 10 crewmen and 11 passengers were picked up by the British motor launch HDML-1012. The master, the 2nd mate and three crewmen returned to the lifeboat with the intention of returning to the ship, but on the way back he came across the British motor launch ML-356 and being uncertain of the condition of the ship they decided to board the motor launch. HMS Erica (K 50) (Lt A.C.C. Seligman, RNR) put a boarding party on the Corona, including one Indian stoker from Henrik and later took the survivors on board and brought them to Tobruk.
The next day, the Corona was taken in tow to Tobruk and beached. In the afternoon on 24 February, she sank during a storm.
9/43 Leros
26/9/43 Air raid on Leros in which the Greek destroyer Queen Olga is sunk and the British destroyer HMS Intrepid is damaged. ML 351, damaged accidentally on the previous day, is towed by ML 355 clear of the jetty and out of the path of burning fuel spreading across the harbour. After the raid, ML 351 is towed by ML 355 to the fueling jetty and both COs go in search of assistance with fuelling. A second raid develops and the first lieutenant of ML 355 takes both vessels out into the middle of the harbour leaving a dinghy behind to allow both COs to rejoin
ML 354 and ML356 pick up survivors from the Queen Olga having been alongside that vessel when the raid started. ML836 also picked up survivors from the Queen Olga.
10/43 Withdrawn for repair
1/44 With ML 351, ML 359 and ML 836, deployed from Beirut to Casteloriso
10/1/44 ML 351 and ML 356, intercept two large caiques east of Nissiros. Vessels are boarded and one German is captured. The Greek crews are removed and the caiques with their cargo of food stores and live sheep are sunk by depth charges. Captured and survivors are landed at Casteloriso
Post War Fate
14/1/46 Italian Navy
ML _921 William Weatherhead, Cockenzie 22/11/44
Wind up of the war in Europe (Gazette Date - 11/12/45)
DSM Tel Arthur Walker P/JX341416
Birthday Honours 1946
MID TSLt Archibald Aimers RNVR
Known Crew
TSLt Archibald Aimers RNVR
TSLt Kenneth Micklethwaite RNVR ML 143 8/5/44 First Lieutenant ML 921 20/10/44
Tel Arthur Walker P/JX341416
Post War Fate
ML2921
4/2/57 Sold