The Glorious first saw action in World War II providing air cover for the Allied expeditionary force seeking to support Norways resistance to Nazi invasion in April 1940, her Sea Gladiators shooting down several German bombers. And when he arrived back on British soil, everything seemed to have a dream-like quality. Details of the British ships sunk during July - December 1940. Published: 00:26 GMT, 10 March 2012 | Updated: 00:27 GMT, 10 March 2012. In June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to a new trans-Atlantic evacuation scheme. Even so, he was already freezing and soaked to the skin. Theyd just woken up.. For his part, Colin was starting to realise how hard it would be to marshal all the children into the lifeboats. In fact, the Northampton was secretly evacuating the Norweigian royal family to the UK, and commanding Vice Admiral John Cunningham had strict orders to maintain radio silence, and thus neither intervened nor relayed the message. His spirits lifted as he spotted a light but it was only the conning tower of the U-boat, which had surfaced to check out the scene. LANCASTRIA (June 17, 1940) The loss of the Lancastria was the fourth largest maritime disaster of the war. The 1,300-ton ship sustained a multiple hits from the two 40,000-ton battlecruisersbut on her second run, one of her torpedoes slammed into the Scharnhorst, ripping a 12-meter wide hole into her hull that let in over two thousand tons of water, knocked her aft Caesar turret out of action, killed forty-eight crew, and disabled her starboard propeller shaft. But a carrier could deploy over a hundred airplanes that could strike targets hundreds of miles away with torpedoes and bombs. World War II: The harbour defence vessel (608 GRT) was scuttled at Dieppe, France. The ship was hit by a torpedo on the morning of 2 July, killing many of those on board. DOyly-Hughes ordered the destroyer Ardent to turn about and visually investigate the sighting, while nonchalantly maintaining his westward course at cruising speed. World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper (301 GRT, 1907) was scuttled at, World War II: The naval tug (179 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The cargo ship (1,199 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The cargo ship (3,594 GRT, 1920) was scuttled at Rochefort, France. As he worked, he knew that a single wave could sweep him away. How ironic it is that the second Apapa was making the identical voyage from the Lagos port that shared her name to Liverpool. Most likely rammed and sunk Oct. 4; 1940 by Antonietta Costa (Italian Cargo ship) 60 NM ENE of Bari . Just two weeks after being set up, it received more than 200,000 applications from worried parents for just 20,000 places. 39 days; Cargo removed, Crew 3; Japanese POW: 164; Died POW:12 including 4 lost on RMS was a sign of distinction and quality. Others tried desperately to tread water before surrendering to the deep. World War II: The cargo ship (3,546 GRT, 1906) struck a mine and sank in the, The cargo ship (5,393 or 5,106 GRT, 1918) ran aground in the, World War II: The cargo ship (5,820 GRT, 1921) was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean west of. Ships York rescued 42 survivors but three more died aboard her. World War II: The trawler (108 GRT, 1931) was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of. We have details of 11 people who were on board. World War II: The cargo ship (7,340 GRT) was bombed and sunk off Le Havre, France by Luftwaffe aircraft. World War II: The cargo ship (1,373 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The sailing vessel (26 GRT) struck a mine and sank at, World War II: The coaster (509 GRT, 1937) struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off. U-123 was to be his last front line command,. But once he had returned home, the subject of his ordeal became taboo. I thought: Wake up, Colin! . The SS Goslar, a steamboat, was at port in Suriname when Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, causing the country (then a colony of the Netherlands) to begin to intern German men living in the . World War II: The cargo ship (3,577 GRT, 1918) was torpedoed and sunk in the, The cargo ship (1,478 GRT, 1924) collided with, World War II: The fishing vessel (96 GRT, 1919) struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off, World War II: The cargo ship (3,584 GRT, 1910) was scuttled at, World War II: The tanker (603 GRT) struck a mine in the English Channel off, World War II: The cargo ship (2,317 GRT, 1904) was shelled and sunk in the, The cargo ship (351 GRT, 1920) collided with, World War II: The minesweeper (682/874 t, 1939) struck a mine off, World War II: The cargo ship (2,863 GRT, 1937) struck a mine in the, World War II: The sailing vessel (183 GRT, 1902) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The coaster (798 GRT, 1904) was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the, World War II: The coaster (145 GRT) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The trawler (217 GRT, 1904) struck a mine in the North Sea (, World War II: The cargo ship (5,888 GRT, 1936) was torpedoed and damaged in the, World War II: The cargo ship (4,212 GRT, 1927) was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 15 nautical miles (28km; 17mi) off Tory Island by, World War II: The cargo ship (5,415 GRT, 1933) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: Operation Juno: The tanker (5,666 GRT, 1928) was shelled and sunk in the Norwegian Sea off Jan Mayen (, World War II: Operation Juno: The troopship (19,840 GRT, 1924) was shelled and sunk in the Norwegian Sea (. World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper (150 GRT) was scuttled at Lorient, France. "Naval Events, March 1940, Part 1 of 2, Friday 1st Thursday 14th", "Verluste Deutscher Handelsschiffe 1939-1945 und unter deutscher Flagge fahrender auslndischer Schiffe: 1940", "Naval Events, February 1940, Part 1 of 2, Thursday 1st - Wednesday 14th", "Naval Events, March 1940, Part 2 of 2, Friday 15th Sunday 31st", "Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939 - 1945. Two of the youngest serving Merchant Seamen killed in WWII. Ships Sunk, Damaged or Captured December 1941 (82 ships), Chronological list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged, Geographical list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged, Alphabetical list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged, Merchant Marine Casualties "Naval Events, June 1940, Part 1 of 4, Saturday 1st Friday 7th", "Norwegian Homefleet - WW II, Ships starting with Sa through SN", "The History of the Eastbourne Lifeboat Station", alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (T), "Naval Events, May 1940, Part 1 of 4, Wednesday 1st Tuesday 7th", "Naval Events, June 1940, Part 2 of 4, Saturday 8th Friday 14th", "Norwegian Homefleet - WW II, Ships starting with K", "Tyne Built Ships. In fact, HMS Hurricane, a Royal Navy destroyer, was already combing the area. There were only 11 survivors. While the British sighted the ships fifteen minutes later, Captain DOyly didnt call action stations and begin having Swordfish bombers lifted to the flight deck until 4:20 p.m.. Crucially, the German battlecruisers were fastbut Glorious could nearly match their speed at thirty knots, once her boilers built up enough steam. We said: If you want them, theyre 600 miles out at the bottom of the Atlantic! he recalls. To order a copy for 16.99 (incl p&p), call 0843 382 0000. However, Chapter 10, Those Who Died, comprises nearly one-third of the book and lists the names of 1,431 individuals from 39 different military units along with, where possible, their ranks, service numbers and designations of regiments or corps. They werent the only parents desperate to send their children abroad. He then struck out to rescue another child but both disappeared in the swirling seas. At 5 PM a shell slammed into the Gloriouss bridge, killing DOyly and most of the command crew. The coaster (350 GRT, 1909) ran aground on Fort Island, World War II: The cargo ship (3,137 GRT, 1922) struck a mine and sank in the North Sea north of, The coaster (352 GRT, 1937) sank after hitting rocks near, The cargo ship (4,859 GRT, 1912) ran aground at off, The fishing vessel (227 GRT, 1916) collided with, World War II: The cargo ship (2,248 GRT, 1916) struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium (, The trawler (219 GRT, 1915) foundered in a storm on rocks known as "The Black Waughs", The trawler (276 GRT, 1917) collided with, World War II: The cargo ship (1,229 GRT, 1911) was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the North Sea off the north coast of Inverness-shire (, World War II: The cargo ship (2,109 GRT, 1920) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The trawler (341 or 202 GRT, 1900) was bombed and sunk in the, World War II: The cargo ship (1,153 GRT, 1893) was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off the north coast of Inverness-shire (, World War II: The cargo ship (3,270 GRT, 1922) was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north of the, World War II: The cargo ship (4,947 GRT, 1921) was torpedoed and sunk in the, The cargo ship (1,914 GRT) was damaged by ice and sank in the, The cargo ship (1,282 GRT, 1902) collided in dense fog with, World War II: The naval trawler (210 GRT, 1910) struck a mine in the, The cargo ship (3,030 GRT) ran aground off, World War II: The tanker (5,742 GRT, 1921) was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea east of the. The comments below have not been moderated. As it grew lighter, he could see corpses floating around each lifeboat. The SS Orama was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness in 1924 for the Orient Line with accommodation for 1,700 passengers. List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1940 Ship Country Description, Msd Pro Billet Distributor Wiring Diagram. There are no actual transcripts of these speeches, but they have been reconstructed from Churchills notes given to Charles Eade. Other Nazis are planning to escape to America. by Sebastien Roblin. The only comfort came from urinating in the water: for a few brief seconds, he could feel the warmth swirling around his legs. His recovery took months, and ended any thoughts hed had of a full-time career in the Navy. For the scuttling of HMS Mashobra on this day, see the entry for 25 May 1940. I of course ,read it before giving it to my father. However, he was told to embark as many as possible. For decades, the Royal Navy offered a vaguely exculpatory account of the disaster, but in the 1980s historian Stephen Roskill published an article holding poor command culture by Captain DOylyy responsible for the tragedy. Certainly, there was little panic as everyone gathered at pre-arranged points. You could see people running around on the decks. Ships Sunk or Damaged 1939 to 1941 due to war causes Chronological List of U.S. Afterwards, he says: We were all becoming very sleepy, delirious. Mr Raskai bravely helped me into it as it was crashing about against the ship. 'What had happened was that I'd lain there, grieving away, and my blood had stopped flowing. Fortunately for Colin, he was better off than some: he had his padded life-jacket, a balaclava and a pair of string gloves that his mother had put in his pockets. The Royal Navy apparently remained unaware of the battle and made no rescue effort, only learning what happened after Germany announced the victory. The following brief overview of the Lancastrias history is augmented with verified information from sources that Wynn might have consulted. Fateful: The S.S City of Benares, passenger ship is launched in 1936 and would later be sunk while carrying 90 children aged five to 15. Despite his mothers disapproval, Colin developed a curious desire to return to the sea. World War II: The captured ex-Dutch coastal defence ship (5,002 t, 1904) was bombed and sunk at, World War II: The naval yacht (196 GRT, 1938) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean (, World War II: The cargo ship (1,888 GRT) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The tanker (7,011 GRT, 1922) was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by, World War II: The cargo ship (5,154 GRT, 1918) was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay (, The cargo ship (2,724 or 2,608 GRT, 1929) collided with another vessel and sank in the. Stephen Wynn, a retired police constable with 30 years service in Essex, began writing prior to his retirement. The Story of the Evacuation in Britain, 1939-1945. All four crewmen died. The date was September 17, 1940. Britain Ship Losses 1940 This page records the details of every British ship lost during the two world wars, including pictures where possible. Splinters also pierced one of the carriers boilers, slowing her down. Some survivors claimed that a bomb had gone straight down a funnel, others thought bombs hit No, 4, 2, and 3 holds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution, - Naval Documents of the American Revolution, A History of the Naval Historical Foundation. The much smaller vessel immediately laid a smoke screen which it used as cover to launch hit-and-run torpedo attacks. When Bess and Beth were rescued, their frozen fingers had to be prised off their capsized lifeboat. Refitted in 1924 for two classes and renamed Lancastria, she travelled the route from Liverpool to New York and back, but in 1932 was reassigned to cruise in the Mediterranean and through northern European waters. I knew that if I fell asleep, Id die. What had happened was that Id lain there, grieving away, and my blood had stopped flowing. Records of the Ministry of Shipping from 1917-1921 contain references to war losses and include a complete list of British merchant and fishing vessels sunk or damaged by enemy action for 1914-1920. you see substantial portions of this page on the Internet or in published material Estimates of the loss range between 3,000 and 5,800 fatalities. From the half-submerged Lifeboat 2, Colin watched as the Benares sank below the waves. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. The City of Benares gave a great shudder and began to sink. A pre-war photograph of the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff in Hamburg. Under the British Official Secrets Act, the report on the Lancastria cannot be published until the year 2040. The year before, his parents had pulled him out of his prep school in St Johns Wood, North London, and deposited him with his grandparents in Lingfield, Surrey. The unusual disaster continues to evoke controversy, and even questioning in Parliament, decades later. Never take this off, she warned him. World War II: The cargo ship (1,525 GRT, 1920) was scuttled as a blockship at Dieppe, France. The notifications are not legally enforceable; hence, news editors could choose not to abide by them but, generally, accede to these notices. Another day nearer America! he remembers thinking. These decisions proved fatal, as that same day, the German Kriegsmarine dispatched surface forces including the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on Operation Juno, a sortie redirected to interdict Allied evacuation ships. Your email address will not be published. My late uncle Richard Gleasure, an aircraft technician, was due to be on the SS Lancastria, rescue ship , but as his air force colleges were leaving with a full aircraft, several yelled to him to RUN, Quick,, as they then pulled him onto an already taxing plane through the floor door, he was saved. It was used until 1993, when the name was changed to DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice). Return to Allied Ships hit by U-boats Front page About Contact us FAQ Glossary What's new Andrea Doria, Italian passenger liner that sank on July 25-26, 1956, after colliding with the Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean. World War II: The cargo ship (1,522 GRT, 1923) was torpedoed and damaged in the, World War II: The cargo ship (3,554 GRT, 1920) was damaged and abandoned at Brest, France. His parents found out Colin was alive only when they spotted a photo of him in a newspaper. This feat accomplished, the Glorious was to sail back to the UK with fellow carrier Ark Royal for mutual protection. The evacuees were in several western French ports including Lorient and St. Nazaire on the Loire River. 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My own commemoration including photo's of the two Brothers sent to me by their relatives can be found on this link to my own website.http://www.british-merchant-navy.co.uk/TOWER.htmAbout links. Two chapters briefly detail the extraction of Allied forces from Europe in Operations Cycle (Le Havre, France), Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk); and Operation Aerial (St. Nazaire, Nantes, Cherbourg, and seven other French ports). World War II: The cargo ship (810 GRT, 1933) was scuttled at Dieppe, France. 11, two out of 11 children remained. RMS Rangitane (callsign GBWX) was a 16,712-ton liner owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. please notify usmm.org @ comcast.net, Taken to Norway; Soviet Unio; Norway; released Within half an hour, four of the crew members on his boat had slipped into unconsciousness and died. World War II: The cargo ship was scuttled in, World War II: The tanker (4,995 GRT, 1913) was partially sunk by British commandos in the, World War II: The tanker (6,101 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The cargo ship (6,470 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The trawler (203 GRT) was bombed and sunk in the. 'How much can business take?' The 224-meter long vessel still could only carry a smaller air group of forty-eight aircraft compared to larger U.S. fleet carriers. Merchant ship movement card (catalogue reference: BT 389) In the top left corner of the record is the ship's name. Warships, submarines, tankers, cargo, passenger, troopships and so on. Then, one day, he developed an infection and had to be sent to an isolation ward to recover. I was just waiting for someone to say: What are you doing in your pyjamas at this time in the morning? But no one even looked at me.. A German submarine torpedoed the ship hours after Britain declared war on Hitler in 1939 - more than 100 people, including many Americans, were killed. Armed Guard Casualties Once the ship was on its way in a convoy escorted by vessels from the Royal Navy Colin read books in the library and played games on deck. Row 1. I felt responsible for losing them and a totally ridiculous guilt came over me., For a few days, reporters made a big fuss of the heroic boy who had helped others in his lifeboat to survive. Every type of ship is here, warships, submarines, MTBs, tankers, cargo, passenger, troopships and so on, totalling over 3,000. Then, mercifully, he threw himself overboard. World War II: The cargo ship (4,499 GRT) was scuttled at Brest, France. Lancastria was attacked, apparently by five Junkers Ju 88 dive bombers, and the ship capsized, and sank within twenty minutes mid-afternoon on June 17 off the French port of St. Nazaire. However, an exact number of Lancastrias casualties may never be known. Under the Official Secrets Act, the report on the Lancastria cannot be published until the year 2040. Therefore, destroyers, fishing boats, and other small craft had to ferry the evacuees to Lancastria while being bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffes Junkers Ju 11 bombers of Kampfgeschwader 30. For the first few days after his rescue, he remained very weak as the Hurricane took the survivors to Glasgow. Goodbye, Colin. He recalls feeling relieved that his buttoned-up family didnt go in for the kind of tearful scenes that were going on all around him. Contributed on: 22 May 2005. The Glorious and her two escorting destroyers did not yet have radar, so Capt. The ship was apparently equipped with sixteen lifeboats and 2,500 life jackets, but many of the boats were damaged from the air attacks while others were unusable because of the ships starboard list and hull angle. He and the other children were watched over that night as they slept but despite all efforts, three more died. As it hovered over the waves, it suddenly lurched, then one end jerked downwards and was smashed by a wall of water. At 3:45 p.m., crew on the German capital ships spotted the funnel smoke of the British warships and surged forward to close the distance. Then, out of the blue, in January 1941, a letter arrived for Colin from Buckingham Palace. Her captain, Guy DOyly Hughes, a decorated submariner in World War I, also ordered her Swordfishes to launch raids on land targets, but air group leader J.B. Heath refused, arguing they lacked clear targets and that the pokey biplanes would be shot to pieces by flak. This was the date on which, the RMS Lancastria was sunk off the French port of Nantes, with an unknown loss of life. World War II: The ocean liner (9,345 GRT, 1906) was bombed and sunk at Le Havre, France by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of six crew. World War II: The tanker (2,454 GRT, 1888) was sunk as a block ship at Dieppe, France. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. True, the ship had slowed down to negotiate the storm, but it was still ploughing in the right direction. His dreams, however, were rudely interrupted that night by a loud bang. World War II: The cargo ship (4,007 GRT, 1928) was intercepted in the, The schooner (98 GRT) was rammed by the cargo ship, The cargo ship (2,158 GRT, 1908) ran aground off Winging Point, 20 nautical miles (37km) south of, The cargo ship (625 GRT, 1920) foundered 1 nautical mile (1.9km) off, The trawler (170 GRT, 1904) was helping a neutral steamer which had gone aground on the east coast of England when the steamer slipped on a shelf and collided with, This page was last edited on 29 October 2022, at 11:25. She was requisitioned as an accommodation ship in 1940, but was briefly removed from service in 1942 so she could play the part of the Titanic in a crude German propaganda film about the sinking of the famous vessel. These advantages meant that battleships and battlecruisers were repeatedly sunk by carrier-based aircraft, from Pearl Harbor to Taranto to the Battle of the Philippines Sea. 2: Their Finest Hour , Geoffrey Bonds 1959 Lancastria, John Wests 1988 The Loss of Lancastria, Brian Crabbs 2002 The Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the Loss of HMT Lancastria, Jonathan Fenbys 2005 The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britains Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchills Cover-up, Jacques Perruchon and Jacques Leroux 2005 Juin 1940 sur les ctes charentaises: ces trangers qui ont refus notre dfaite, Hugh Sebag-Montefiores 2006 The Sinking of the Lancastria in Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, Jonathan Fenby and James Goodes 2008 The Sinking of the Lancastria, John Hanleys 2013 The Last Boat, Chair of the HMT Lancastria Association Raye Dancocks 2011 The Lancastria a Secret Sacrifice in World War Two, Graham Frasers 2015 Lancastria: The forgotten tragedy of World War Two, and the Lancastria Archive. World War II: The cargo ship (1,828 GRT, 1923) with a German prize crew was proceeding behind the steamer Inger when she detonated a mine (laid by, World War II: The cargo ship (1,081 GRT, 1923) struck a mine and sank in, World War II: The passenger cargo vessel (10,076 or 9,349 GRT, 1912) was scuttled in the, World War II: The ferry-transport (2,949 GRT, 1920) was bombed and damaged at. DOyly kicked Heath off the ship and departed on missions to ferry Royal Air Force Gladiators and Hurricanes to Norway. World War II: The auxiliary patrol vessel (247 GRT) was shelled and sunk in the English Channel off. Her classs lead ship, the Courageous, had launched the first carrier-launched naval air strike in history near the end of World War I. World War II: The water carrier (107 GRT) was scuttled at Lorient, France. Later, he received an oak-leaf emblem, which came with instructions to wear it on the ribbon of the War Medal an award he was too young to earn. Home, www.USMM.org 1998 - 2006. 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