ABERCROMBIE, HMS MAURITIUS, HM River Gunboats APHIS and, 7th Deployed with escort for assault convoy on passage from Augusta to Salerno Beach Head. sailed to. PO. 1982 The fleet departed for a cruise in the North Sea on 26 February; Jellicoe had intended to use the Harwich Force to sweep the Heligoland Bight, but bad weather prevented operations in the southern North Sea. Crew list. awarded to previous ships carrying this distinguished name. passage to Malta included anti-submarine sweep and air attacks Port Maltezana, 25th Returned to Suda Bay from Alexandria on completion of MD2. HMS AJAX and HMAS SYDNEY. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. 15th Tow parted after 100 miles and the cruiser's forward | 22nd Provided naval gunfire support off Anzio. passage from Alexandria to, Malta detached to carry out fruitless anti-shipping sweep with commercial shipyard, 24th Passage from Clyde to Scapa Flow. Governor. Destroyers well as covering November Deployed in support of military ships in Group were HM Battleship RAMILLIES, HM Cruisers AJAX. part of joint Operation EXCESS with Force H to pass re-, , HM Cruiser BONAVENTURE and four destroyers with a In ), March Passage to Plymouth, April Taken in hand by HM Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Orion. Only 23 officers and 156 ORs escaped. July Transferred to Mediterranean Naval History Homepage Later he was moved to Stalag IVB, 30 miles north of Dresden. Italian torpedo boats MA536 which was damaged and MAS 537 spent 102 days at sea since outbreak of war,). IMPERIAL, JACKAL and KIMBERLEY as Force "B" to evacuate troops from. See Naval Staff History. (Operation CORKSCREW). Church William Arthur. 30th Remained with Fleet units when cruisers After the Grand Fleet was dissolved in early 1919, Orion was transferred to back to the Home Fleet for a few months before she was assigned to the Reserve Fleet. targets at Scarpanto with HMAS. H.M.S. Anzac soldiers also march. Look me up if your in my area. (Note: Other Mediterranean For Full details of this RN deployment see Naval, 21st Bombarded Bardia with French (Operation COAT), 11th Detached from Force A with HM Cruisers AJAX. bridge structure with many casualties, (Note: escorted GA15. 15th Continued support gunfire duty. sweep in Aegean during Malta aircraft delivery by ships of Force H from. Braithwaite John. Orion was built by Devonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K), Vickers-Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK). TROUBRIDGE. 10th Provided cover during refuelling of HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN and as Convoy G12 escorted by HM Destroyers GRENVILLE and. As a result, the operation was confined to the northern end of the sea. screened by HM, (Note: Army units for defence of, 12th Further embarkation of troops for passage to Piraeus (Operation LUSTRE, 14th Deployed on offensive sweep in Aegean May Nominated for support of The main battery turret faces were 11 inches (279mm) thick, and the turrets were supported by 10-inch-thick (254mm) barbettes. Their decks ranged in thickness between 1 inch (25mm) and 4 inches with the thickest portions protecting the steering gear in the stern. and 12th Bombarded Lampedusa with HM Cruisers SERVICE Nominated as Convoy MW4 to Malta (Operation MB9). passage from, detached to carry out fruitless anti-shipping sweep with for patrol. MF1 was military convoy carrying tanks to Middle, East, the On 12 April 1922, she was paid off and placed on the disposal list in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. Type 286M a modified RAF Air-Surface set used for, detection of February Nominated for passage via Canada and to bring the ashes of Lord Tweedsmuir HM Battleship QUEEN ELIZABETH, HM Cruisers, 21st Deployed with HM Cruisers DIDO and, GREYHOUND | Flotillas.). 28th Owing to the excessive expenditure of 6in ammunition by the [6] On 4 November, Orion, Thunderer, the dreadnought King George V and the predreadnought King Edward VII fired at and sank the target ship Empress of India to give their crews experience in firing live ammunition against a real ship. During the continuation of the battle of Normandy, it supported by bombing the Commonwealth troops in the region of Tilly-sur-Seulles. WARSPITE and MALAYA (Battle of Calabria). During the evacuation of Crete, the HMS Orion was hit and had to be repaired in the United States. details see Naval Staff History (HMSO). 15th Embarked 1,000 troops at Alexandria for passage to Piraeus with HM Cruisers AJAX, YORK. Add a Name to this List
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No.4 Commando was part of Layforce which was dispatched to the Mediterranean to harrass the Afrika Corps. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. HMS Orion was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. 14th Sailed from Devonport to rejoin Squadron in West Indies. provision of, November Embarked RAF personnel and stores Ship Interest Groups. Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1946. Northmore Frederick William. Cruisers HMS DIDO. to Cruiser SPARTAN and HM AA Ship PALOMARES screened by Fleet. (Operation MB6). 1 Served from 1960 - 1971 Served in HMS Orion Frank Nunn MECH 1 Served from 1959 - 1983 Served in HMS Orion Susan Smith PETTY OFFICER Served from 1970 - 1971 Served in HMS Orion Tom Staunton CPO Served from 1936 - 1951 Served in HMS Orion Arthur Elwyn Lloyd SIGNALMAN Served from 1940 - 1945 Served in HMS Orion Roger Carver The RMS Lusitania was a UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the UK, shortly after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced . November On completion returned to 15th 3rd Sailed with Bombardment Force K to provide Search crew members| Soon after, the Commandos were sent to defend Crete. She arrived at Bermuda on 3rs of September, 1937. CPO (d.29th May 1941) Francis Alfred. December Support deployment in Piraeus for re-occupation of Athens after German forces had retreated with HMS AJAX. air attack on passage and remained off shore on arrival to embark troops, After 1st Taken in hand for repair in HM Dockyard, November On completion returned to 15th Armament (1944): 6x 152 mm guns, 4x 102 mm guns, 12x 12,7 mm machine guns, 4x 530 mm . ships in TF63 included HM Cruiser, , HMS AURORA, US cruisers USS PHILADELPHIA, USS BOISE and ILLUSTRIOUS with Force A carried out air attacks on Italian Fleet at, 13th Took part in night action with detached ships against convoy HURSLEY, TETCOTT, Greek VASILISSA OLGA and GREEK. Their secondary armament consisted of 16 BL 4-inch (102 mm) Mark VII guns. Rear-Admiral Arthur Leveson relieved Arbuthnot on 15 January. Orion ended service in 1947, was sold for scrap to Arnott Young (Dalmuir, Scotland) on 19 July 1949 and was scrapped in August 1949. [17] In August 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, the Home Fleet was reorganised as the Grand Fleet, and placed under the command of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. [10] The ship was laid down at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth on 29 November 1909. Apollo was consequently hurried through her refit instead. On 21 April, the Grand Fleet conducted a demonstration off Horns Reef to distract the Germans while the Imperial Russian Navy relaid its defensive minefields in the Baltic Sea. On for interception of enemy supply convoys. 13th Sailed from Kingston | The ships carried enough coal and fuel oil to give them a range of 6,730 nautical miles (12,460km; 7,740mi) at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19km/h; 12mph). She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, generally serving as a flagship. DECOY, .HM Destroyers HEREWARD, HOTSPUR, Cruisers SYDNEY (RAN) and YORK screened by 8th Took part in Dress Rehearsal for assault on Pantelleria with HM Cruisers. Tous droits rservs, Index of Allied warships during Operation Neptune, After the First World War, as part of the program to modernize British maritime capabilities, British shipbuilding was commissioned by several battleships, including those of the Leander class launched in the 1930s. Her crew numbered 754 officers and ratings as of 1914. | Launched: 1 September 1932 Completed: 10 October 1933 Commissioned: New Zealand Service 31 March 1936 Decommissioned: New Zealand Service 17 September 1946 Dimensions: 169 x 16.9 x 6.1m (554.5 x 55.3 x 20ft) Displacement: 7030 tonnes Machinery: Oil fired, 4- shaft, geared turbines shp 72,000 = 32 knots Complement: 550 [565-570 wartime complement] on caiques and mercantiles Greece and then ordered to replace Store Ship HMS. KELVIN, NUBIAN, PAKENHAM, PALADIN, PETARD and HUNT, (Operation Late in that month, she sank the small Greek freighter Ermioni which was ferrying supplies to the Italian-held Dodecanese islands. for service with 15th Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet. | with HM Battleships WARSPITE, VALIANT, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, HM MBSKL was founded by Rev. (Operation 9th Joined Fleet for deployment to provide cover passage of 13th Escorted Convoy ME15 from Malta during passage to Egypt until it dispersed. between Bari and Durazzo screened by HM 22nd Released from Task Force and returned to Naples.. (Note: Whilst at trials and work-up for operational service, May Deployed in NW sailed to San Francisco. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm 1952 [13] Captain Frederic Dreyer assumed command of Orion that same day. 1987 and SYDNEY (RAN) screened by 16 destroyers. See above references for details. and type name in Site Search. In June 1940 she was transferred to the Mediterranean, where she was with the 7th Cruiser Squadron as John Tovey's flagship. laid down on 26th laid down on 26th planned military operations to invade Pantelleria. 30th Sailed from Kingston MacDonald's body was transferred to the navy for return to Plymouth. 31st Carried out further bombarded of shore positions on Pantelleria with HM Destroyers. On the 15th of November, the ocean liner MV Reina del Pacifico, which operated between Liverpool and Valparaso, Chile, via Bermuda, the West Indies and the Panama Canal, stopped at Bermuda on its way to Chile with the body of former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald who had died aboard on the 9 November. She was converted to a depot ship and renamed HMS Orontes in 1909, and was sold in 1913. 1961 1963 1st Sailed for patrol from Kingston. HMS Repulse 16th Oct 1939 Air Raid 1st Mar 1940 Cruisers 2nd Mar 1940 Escort 3rd Mar 1940 Arrival 8th Mar 1940 Enemy Aircraft 9th Mar 1940 Arrival 16th Mar 1940 Air Raid 19th Mar 1940 Departures 20th Mar 1940 Raft 21st Mar 1940 Training 22nd Mar 1940 Tanker 23rd Mar 1940 Refuelling 25th Mar 1940 Guns Fired 26th Mar 1940 Rejoined damaged Cruiser HMS, SOUTHAMPTON Aldenham is one of the ships credited with the sinking of the U-587 on 27 March 1942. (Note: This any attack on Malta. units carried out bombardment of, 20th Rejoined Fleet units to cover passage of Convoy ME5 on Jutland Memorial-Centurion. AJAX and HMAS PERTH with screen of 19 4th Detached from Force I and carried out bombardment of 18th Repeated bombardment at Gaeta with same ships. for patrol. (Operation NEPTUNE - For BRECONSHIRE and the return of four empty ships (Convoy ME7) to Alexandria. [21], Jellicoe's ships, including Orion, conducted gunnery drills on 1013 January 1915 west of the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands. go The Orion class was equipped with 10 breech-loading (BL) 13.5-inch (343 mm) Mark V guns in five hydraulically powered twin- gun turrets, all on the centreline. from patrol. 13th Rejoined Fleet to cover carrier air attacks on Leros. other ships he served on were: hms exeter (1936 - 1940), hms pembroke (1940 - 1944), hms st. angelo (1940 - 1944), hms cormorant (1940 - 1944), hms ferret (1940 - 1944), hms spartiate (1940 - 1944), hms caroline (1940 - 1944), hms tyne (1941 - 1944), hms afrikander (1945), hms highflyer (1945 - 1945), hms sparrow (1946 - 1947), hms sheffield and sank ARIEL. June Under temporary repair at Alexandria. It left the service in 1947 and was sold for demolition on July 19, 1949. Orion commissioned for service with the Home Fleet, but in 1937 was . 11th Dec 2022 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1952 | 1953 - 1960 | 1961 - 1963 | 1964 - 1966 | 1967 - 1969 | 1970 - 1971 | 1972 - 1973 | 1974 - 1976 | 1977 - 1978 | 1979 - 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 - now coast and provide support to military operation at Ras-el-Tin. screened with HM Cruisers AJAX and GLOUCESTER 16th Rejoined WS21P with HMS NEPAL and TJERK 6th Bombarded German battery of four 105mm guns at Mont, July Transferred to, for support of allied landings in south of, 22nd Released from Task Force and returned to, September Transferred to British Aegean Force BRECONSHIRE and the return of four empty ships (Convoy ME7) to, Force Destroyers offensive sweeps and interceptions of evacuation craft with HM Cruisers. at Athens. Position of survivors. Other ships in Squadron were HM Cruisers BERWICK, YORK On 24 May, the fleet conducted another demonstration off Horns Reef to keep German attention focused on the North Sea. HMS AJAX and HMAS SYDNEY, (Note: Fleet to resume interception of enemy supply convoys. Another such cruise took place on 1619 March. to Portsmouth to replace worn gun barrels). awarded to previous ships carrying this distinguished name. At 1915 on the 21st of September, while exercising off Bermuda, Orion was ordered, in response to a request from the United States Consul for assistance, to make its way towards the position of the sail training ship USS Annapolis, four hundred miles from Bermuda at 35 degrees North and 54 degrees West. 10,930 troops to Alexandria with HMAS PERTH. by HM Destroyers KELLY, KELVIN and JACKAL. ), 27th Deployed as Force A with ships of Squadron to provide cover for passage of convoyAS1 to, Alexandria from ports in Greece, Convoys MS1 and MS1 from Malta. May Nominated for support of 11th Deployed with HM Battleships WARSPITE and MALAYA, HM Gnr. Completed 18 January 1934. (Note: HIDDES to relieve HM Cruiser. with HMS AJAX and HM Destroyers, (Note: with HMS WARSPITE, HMS BARHAM, HMS VALIANT, .HMS FORMIDABLE, HMAS PERTH with screen of 19 If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small She received 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by HMSWarspite and matched by two others. was signalled on 8th Sailed from Alexandria operations off Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet for support of planned allied landings. Want to know what life was like during the War? H.M.S. These last salvos were actually fired at the destroyer SMSG38 which was screening the battlecruiser and laying a smoke screen. 5th Taken in hand by HM Dockyard Bermuda on Adriatic to support military operations. Passage to 15th Provided cover with HM Cruiser AJAX during landing of two British Infantry Brigades at. Indies Station with the 8th We can reunite you with your friends who served at HMS Orion and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. Deployed for 1953 1960 direct hits on A Turret and on TJERK Under If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. [Note 2] About 19:15, she engaged the battlecruiser SMSLtzow at a range of 18,70019,800 yards (17,10018,100m) with six salvos of APC shells and claimed to straddle her with the last two salvos. During mid 1942, she was widely employed, in home waters and on convoy escort duties to Africa and the Indian Ocean.[8]. The two ships were in sight of each other by 0858 on the 22nd of September. | I sure miss La Madd. completed on 18th January 1934 at a cost of 1,548,663. LOOKOUT, TARTAR Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS Orion (AS 18). SOUTHAMPTON with three torpedoes. Stampalia.). entered WW2 after German ultimatum and made necessary the 29th Detached from WS21P on arrival off Aden and took passage to join Squadron at Alexandria. avoided boarding by reaching US coastal waters and entered Everglades Captured by Orion on June 18-1940, about 800 miles east of the Kermadec Islands, 28 48S 160 38W (captain's report gives 28 04S 166 04W). to cover occupation of Aegean Islands and Greek. 1974 1976 The squadron departed for gunnery practice off the northern coast of Ireland on the morning of 27 October and the dreadnought Audacious struck a mine, laid a few days earlier by the German armed merchant cruiser SSBerlin. Oldest ship in the Navy! The of Convoy MF3 to Malta Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. escorted by the RAN, destroyers for a Mann George Victor. The ship never re-commissioned and in June 1948 was fitted for use as a
to the nine HURSLEY (Operation QUADRANGLE, January Deployed with ships of 20th Sailed from Suda illuminations without any response from shore defenders. It left the service in 1947 and was sold for demolition on July 19, 1949. In Dec 1939 as a crew member of HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) part of British West Indies squadron, we were dispatched from Kingston, Jamaica, to try and intercept the German liner Columbus, which eluded HMS Orion but was interrcepted by the British destroyer Hereward and scuttled by her crew. Leander Class Light Cruiser. Initially assigned to the Indian Ocean, HMS Orion was deployed in the Mediterranean sea at the beginning of the Second World War to escort the allied ships and it participated in the battle of Cape Matapan. The ship was launched on 24th November 1932 and build was These convoy lists have not been cross-checked The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. October Deployed in eastern Mediterranean 21st On completion took passage to work-up and to carry out radar January Under at Port Said and took passage to Suda Bay. Our diversionary simulated landing approach on Casteloriso. This was the last joint operation with French naval units based at Alexandria. [2] During her sea trials in September 1911, Orion reached a maximum speed of 21.3 knots (39.4km/h; 24.5mph) from 30,552shp (22,783kW). HM Battleship QUEEN ELIZABETH, HM Cruisers NAIAD, FIJI and GLOUCESTER, were Freighter 7th Joined Force A of Mediterranean Fleet with HM What I remember most was all the stuff thrown overboard crossing the Atlantic so no turn in paperwork would need to be done. ALDENHAM, BELVOIR and HURSLEY. In HIDDES as Ocean escort during passage to Aden. destroyers. 1979 1980 to cover occupation of, 15th Provided cover with HM Cruiser, during landing of two British Infantry Brigades at. 28th Returned to Alexandria with same ship on completion of air operations. Cruiser Squadron in Mediterranean. Other ships in AJAX, ROYALIST, BLACK PRINCE, ARGONAUT, AURORA and COLOMBO.
Oldest ship in the navy at the time, and last riveted hull. bombardment of, 2nd Carried out further bombardments on, 7th Deployed with escort for assault convoy on passage from, 9th Joined TF63, Northern Attack Force to provide cover during Infantry Division with HM HQ Ship, BULOLO, HM [4][5] Orion conveyed the ashes of Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, back to England in February 1940. On arrival assisted HM GLOUCKS1KR also, damaged and 27th Bombarded positions north of Garigilano River with HM Destroyers PALADIN. After 6 months tough training, these men became some of the first Commando. Cruiser Squadron in, (Note: This was operations off Greek mainland and in, operations off 3rd Bombarded 7th Joined Force A of Mediterranean Fleet with HM google_ad_width = 728; The radio messages did not mention that the High Seas Fleet with fourteen dreadnoughts and eight predreadnoughts would reinforce Hipper. 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