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Neil Rutherford
Lt Cmdr Neil Rutherford, DSC, (15 May 1922 – 24 September 1976) was a British Royal Navy commander. He saw active service in the Second World War and in Korea. In 1958 he served with the Underwater Weapons Material Dept. He committed suicide in Penmaenmawr, Wales, after killing four people at a hotel. Naval career * Midshipman 1 January 1940 * Sub Lieutenant 1 November 1941 * Lieutenant 1 June 1943 * Lieutenant Commander 1 June 1951 (General List 1 January 1957) (retired 5 January 1959) * DSC 10 July 1945 6 war patrols (3 East Indies, 3 Southwest Pacific) * DSC 29 June 1951 Korea Naval service * Education: RN College (January 1936 – December 1939) * 1 January 1940 – January HMS Glasgow (cruiser) * January 1941 – May 1941 HMS Hero (destroyer) * May 1941 – July 1941 HMS Valiant (battleship) * July 1941? – September 1941? passage home SS ''Empress of Asia'' * September 1941 – March 1942 Sub-Lieutenant's courses * March 1942 – May 1942 submarine training course * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penmaenmawr
Penmaenmawr (, ) is a town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, which was formerly in the parish of Dwygyfylchi and the traditional county of Caernarfonshire. It is on the North Wales coast between Conwy and Llanfairfechan and was an important quarrying town, though quarrying is no longer a major employer. The population of the community was 4,353 in 2011, including Dwygyfylchi and Capelulo. The town itself having a population of 2,868 (2011). It was named after Penmaenmawr mountain, which stands above the sea immediately west of the town. Much of its formerly rounded top (with an old hill-fort) has been quarried away, leaving the present-day lower flat top. The town was bypassed by the A55 Expressway in the 1980s, losing its old Edwardian period promenade in the process, which was largely replaced by a modern one. Penmaenmawr is noted for its spectacular mountain and coastal walks. Nearby are the popular attractions of Bwlch Sychnant (Sychnant Pass) and Mynydd y Dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Frankton
Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War. The raid was carried out by a small unit of Royal Marines known as the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (RMBPD), part of Combined Operations inserted by captained by Lieutenant-Commander Dick Raikes who, earlier, had been awarded the DSO for operations while in command of the submarine . (The RMBPD would later form the Special Boat Service.) The plan was for six folding kayaks to be taken to the area of the Gironde estuary by submarine. Twelve men would then paddle by night to Bordeaux. On arrival they would attack the docked cargo ships with limpet mines and then escape overland to Spain. Men from no.1 section were selected for the raid; including the commanding officer, Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler, and with the reserve Marine Colley the team numbered thirteen in total. One kayak was damaged while being deployed from the submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS President (1918)
HMS ''President'' (formerly HMS ''Saxifrage'') is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS ''President'' in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1982 she was sold to private owners and, having changed hands twice, served as a venue for conferences and functions as well as the offices for a number of media companies. She has been moved to Chatham on the Medway in Kent since 2016, but is due to return to the capital. She had the suffix "(1918)" added to her name in order to distinguish her from HMS ''President'', the Royal Naval Reserve base in St Katharine Docks. She is one of the last three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War.The other two are in Belfast, and the 1915 monitor in Portsmouth dockyard She is also the sole representative of the first type of purpose built anti-submarine vessels, and is the ancestor of World War II convoy escort sloops, which evolved into modern anti-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cleopatra (33)
HMS ''Cleopatra'' was a of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited ( Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down on 5 January 1939. She was launched on 27 March 1940, and commissioned on 5 December 1941. Second World War service ''Cleopatra'' went out to Gibraltar early in 1942, and on 9 February she sailed for Malta, where she was immediately damaged by a bomb. After repair, she was transferred to Alexandria in early March for the 15th Cruiser Squadron. She was Admiral Philip Vian's flagship during the Second Battle of Sirte, when his group of four light cruisers and 17 destroyers held off an Italian force which included the battleship , two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and 10 destroyers, which had all been sent to intercept their convoy to Malta. During the engagement, ''Cleopatra''s radar and wireless stations were wrecked by a 6" round fired by the Italian light cruiser . Other reports state that ''Cleopatra''s after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Montclare (F85)
HMS ''Montclare'' (F85) was a British ocean liner that was commissioned into the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, converted into a destroyer depot ship in 1944 and a submarine depot ship in 1946. She was decommissioned in 1954 and scrapped in 1958. ''Montclare'' was launched in Scotland in 1921 as a transatlantic liner for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She was one of three sister ships. The others were '' Montrose'', launched in 1920 and ''Montcalm'', launched in 1921. Building and registration Canadian Pacific ordered a set of three ships from shipyards on the River Clyde. John Brown & Company in Clydebank built ''Montcalm'' and ''Montclare''. The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan built ''Montrose''. ''Montclare'' was laid down as ''Metapedia'', but the name was changed before she was launched on 18 December 1921. She was completed in August 1922. ''Montclare''s registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . She ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Amethyst (U16)
HMS ''Amethyst'' was a modified Black Swan-class sloop, ''Black Swan''-class sloop-of-war, sloop of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse, Govan, Scotland on 25 March 1942, launched on 7 May 1943 and commissioned on 2 November 1943, with the pennant number U16. After the Second World War she was modified and redesignated as a frigate, and renumbered F116. Second World War During the Second World War, ''Amethyst'' was deployed mostly on anti-submarine patrols and escort duties. She attacked and sank the U-boat with depth charges on 20 February 1945. ''U-1276'' had just sunk , a . The action took place in the North Atlantic, south of Waterford, and resulted in the loss of all 49 of the U-boat's crew. During the war the ''Amethyst'' was credited, along with the sloops , , , and frigate , with sinking the in the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel on 16 January 1945. The British Admiralty withdrew this credit in a post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Black Swan (L57)
HMS ''Black Swan'', was the name ship of the sloops of the Royal Navy. This class was admired for its sea-going qualities. Construction and design ''Black Swan'', named after the black swan, was laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders on 20 June 1938, launched on 7 July 1939, and commissioned on 27 January 1940.Hague 1993, p. 76. The ''Black Swan'' class was a lengthened version of the earlier s. The main gun armament consisted of six QF 4 inch Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns in three twin turrets, with the fourth 4 inch turret of the Egret class removed to allow addition of a quadruple barrel 2-pounder pom-pom short-range anti-aircraft gun. Anti submarine armament consisted of depth charge throwers with 40 depth charges carried.Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 57.Hague 1993, p. 16. When completed, ''Black Swan'' was not fitted with the planned quadruple pom-pom, but with two quadruple Vickers .50 machine gun mounts fitted instead. The pom-pom was installed in May 1941, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Andromeda (1897)
HMS ''Andromeda'' was one of eight protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Upon completion in 1899, the ship was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet where she helped to escort a royal yacht during its cruise through the Mediterranean Sea. After a refit, she was assigned to the China Station in 1904 and returned home three years later to be reduced to reserve. ''Andromeda'' was converted into a training ship in 1913 and remained in that role under various names until 1956. That year she was sold for scrap and broken up in Belgium, the last Pembroke-built ship still afloat. Design and description The ''Diadem'' class was designed to protect British merchant shipping from fast cruisers like the Russian and were smaller versions of the . The ships had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of and a draught of . They displaced . The first batch of ''Diadem''s were powered by a pair of four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Vernon (shore Establishment)
HMS ''Vernon'' was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. ''Vernon'' was established on 26 April 1876 as the Royal Navy's Torpedo Branch also known as the Torpedo School, named after the ship which served as part of its floating base. After the First World War, HMS ''Vernon'' moved ashore, taking over the Gunwharf site, where it continued to operate until 1 April 1996, when the various elements comprising the establishment were split up and moved to different commands. Foundation and early history The second ship to be called ended her career laid up in Chatham Dockyard as a floating coaling jetty. In 1872 she was moved to become a tender to for torpedo and mining training. In 1874 she was joined by , an iron screw torpedo vessel. ''Vesuvius'' was attached as an Experimental Tender for the conduct of torpedo trials, and remained in the role until 1923. On 26 April 1876 ''Vernon'' was joined by the former steam frigate and the lighter ''Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Ranee (D03)
USS ''Niantic'' (CVE-46) was a US escort carrier, that served in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Ranee'' (D03). ''Niantic'', originally given the designation AVG-46, was redesignated as ACV-46 on 20 August 1942. The ship's keel was laid down by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation at their yard in Tacoma, Washington on 5 January 1943. The vessel was launched on 2 June, sponsored by Mrs. Ray V. Blanco. She was redesignated again to CVE-46 on 15 July that year and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 8 November, when she was commissioned into the Royal Navy. As one of the 38 converted C3 escort carriers transferred to the United Kingdom, ''Ranee'' joined the merchant aircraft carriers guarding the Atlantic convoy routes. Assigned to the Western Approaches, her aircraft helped to turn the tables on foraging U-boats in the North Atlantic and also assisted in operations to close their northern transit into the Atlantic and track them down in the Bay of Biscay. On 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Stygian (P249)
HMS ''Stygian'' (pennant number P249) was a S-class submarine of the British Royal Navy, and the only ship so far to bear the name. The boat is listed as being a member of the fourth group, although she had the external stern torpedo tube fitted as in the third group. After an eventful career in the Pacific during the Second World War, she was sold to be broken up for scrap on 28 October 1949, and finally scrapped by Metal Industries of Ardgour in August 1950. Career On being commissioned, HMS ''Stygian'' was under the command of Lt. G.S.C. Clarabut, RN. She was assigned to operate with the Eastern Fleet in the Pacific Ocean. She had a short, but eventful wartime career, sinking eight Japanese sailing vessels, five Japanese coasters, six unidentified Japanese vessels and the ship ''Nichinan Maru''. She also sank the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper ''Wa 104'' (the former Dutch ''Djember'') and damaged the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser ''Cha 104'' off Bali. ''St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dolphin Shore-establishment
The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS ''Dolphin'' was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport. ''Dolphin'' was the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1904 to 1999, and location of the Royal Navy Submarine School. Closure of submarine base HMS ''Dolphin'' closed as a submarine base on 30 September 1998, although the last RN submarine permanently based at Gosport was HMS ''Ursula'' which had left 4 years earlier in 1994. The Royal Navy Submarine School (RNSMS) remained at ''Dolphin'' until 23 December 1999 when it closed prior to relocation to HMS ''Raleigh'' at Torpoint in Cornwall. The RNSMS staff marched into HMS ''Raleigh'' and were welcomed on board by Commodore Lockwood on 31 January 2000. The RNSMS is located in the Dolphin and Astute blocks at ''Raleigh'', although the Submarine Escape Training Tank (SETT), a 30m deep tank of water used to instruct all RN submariners in pressurised escape, remains at the same sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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