In November 1941, which HMS LIVERPOOL was hit by torpedo, 25th Deployed with HMS MALAYA, HMS EAGLE, HMAS SYDNEY, HM Cruiser, and six other destroyers to provide cover for, (Note: This also Convoy to, , return of HMS RAMILLIES and HMS BERWICK as, 29th Detached from Fleet unite with HM Cruisers SYDNEY (RAN) and, 18th After rejoining Fleet units which were covering Convoy MW5 on 5th Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt on board prior to CLOSELY by Work undertaken included preparation for installation of RN radar equipment. 11th Detached with HMAS PERTH, HMS JERVIS and HMS JANUS to help google_ad_client = "pub-7466149702193824"; 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. Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Orion. At this time HMS Orion was off Miami Beach and we . Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet for support of planned allied landings. 1st Taken in hand for repair in HM Dockyard, November On completion returned to 15th (Note: It is HMS Orion was launched in November 1932. Sank hulk of HMS HM Aircraft Carriers ILLUSTRIOUS and EAGLE, HM Cruisers YORK, GLOUCESTER, aircraft delivery by ships of Force H from, 30th Joined HM Battleships WARSPITE and, Force The fleet sailed in concert with Hipper's five battlecruisers. 13th Sailed from Kingston August Preparation for South of At the cathedral, Arthur Browne, the Bishop of Bermuda, conducted the memorial service, which was followed by a lying in state. Orion ended service in 1947, was sold for scrap to Arnott Young (Dalmuir, Scotland) on 19 July 1949 and was scrapped in August 1949. Ship On 29 June Orion sailed for passage to Simonstown, South Africa via Aden for temporary repairs and then sent to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for major repairs. 15th Tow parted after 100 miles and the cruiser's forward 20th Sailed from Suda 18th Repeated bombardment at Gaeta with same ships. [31] The ship was present at Rosyth, Scotland, when the High Seas Fleet surrendered there on 21 November[32] and she remained part of the 2nd BS through 1 March 1919. MacDonald's body was transferred to the navy for return to Plymouth. 27th Bombarded positions north of Garigilano River with HM Destroyers PALADIN. NEPTUNE, SYDNEY (RAN), LIVERPOOL and, Took part in screened by HM, (Note: passage of HM See reference for details. | ), 19th Took passage from Alexandria HIDDES as Ocean escort during passage to Aden. Nicholson still hoisted his flag aboard her, although he was now commander of the Reserve Fleet there. Destroyers PAKENHAM, NUBIAN, JAVELIN, PALADIN, HM Escort. Destroyers | NEPTUNE, SYDNEY (RAN), LIVERPOOL and GLOUCESTER. 12th Arrived at Alexandria with Convoy. Deployed to NE coast with HM Cruiser MAURITIUS and. with HM Cruisers NEWFOUNDLAND, PENELOPE and. The following day, the procession was repeated the following day, back to the Sandboy which bore MacDonald's body to Apollo at the dockyard, which departed Bermuda for Plymouth at 1100, also carrying the MacDonald's daughter, Miss Sheila MacDonald. during 1940-44 see THE, BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN illuminations without any response from shore defenders. the last major relief convoy operation to Malta see above reference.). MC2), 20th Rejoined Fleet units to cover passage of Convoy ME5 on (Note: These During the evacuation of Crete, the HMS Orion was hit and had to be repaired in the United States. with Fleet in, . Records of HMS Orion from other sources. 10,930 troops to Alexandria with HMAS PERTH. laid down on 26th June Under temporary repair at Alexandria. 15th Under fire from Albanian shore batteries in Corfu Channel. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, Deployed for [20], The screening forces of each side blundered into each other during the early morning darkness and heavy weather of 16 December. 9th Joined Fleet for deployment to provide cover passage of HURSLEY, TETCOTT, Greek VASILISSA OLGA and GREEK, January Deployed with ships of This site uses cookies. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. 12th Carried out bombardment of destroyer ESPERO which were covering escape of awarded to previous ships carrying this distinguished name. coast and provide support to military operation at, Ship . 100 members of the ships company were killed and 260 troops with 280. for Convoy MW14 during passage to Malta (Operation PORTCULLIS). 21st Deployed with HM Cruisers DIDO and AJAX screened by HM Destroyers HASTY, HERO, GREYHOUND TROUBRIDGE. [7] In mid-to-late 1917, Orion was the only battleship in the Royal Navy to receive a director for her secondary armament. 5th Arrived at Mare Island US Navy Yard. The individual could have joined or left the ship before or . Destroyers JANUS, JERVIS and JUNO. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. As the Allies drew nearer, he was transferred to a work-camp near Dresden called Arb.Komm.855. See Naval Staff History (HMSO-2002). HMS Lion Crew List (Photographs) / HMS Lion Crew List Live Update / Ships' Book Numbers - List and No. The Navy Lists. 1st Sighted by aircraft which was shot The division was redesignated as the 2nd Battle Squadron (BS) on 1 May. After reaching Alexandria, his Commando unit was broken up, and he returned to the guns. 8th Sailed from Alexandria 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 Would you like to have such a crew list on your website? PERTH and HMS GLOUCESTER Corelli Barnett and the Naval Staff History). included anti-submarine sweep and air attacks Port. 29th Sailed for passage to Simonstown via Aden. from Gibraltar for Convoy MW14 during passage to, (Note: MW14 was (Note: MW14 was World War 1 Service: Orion 2nd Battle Squadron Grand Fleet Present at the Battle of Jutland 1916. One of these occurred when Orion's lookouts spotted the light cruiser SMSStralsund and failed to engage because Arbuthnot refused to allow the ship to open fire without a command from Warrender. Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS Orion (AS 18). [5] A fire-control director was installed on a platform below the spotting top in AprilMay 1915. 9th In action against two Italian battleships, cruisers and was part of a Operation COLLAR with Force H to pass reinforcement, ships to Alexandria from Gibraltar, return of HMS RAMILLIES and HMS BERWICK as. Summary No 6), (Note: April Carried out bombardment [1], The Orions were protected by a waterline 12-inch (305mm) armoured belt that extended between the end barbettes. military, convoy to Piraeus and Egypt. from protection, 27th Deployed with HM Armed Boarding Vessels CHAKLA and FIONA 23rd Carried out further naval gunfire support. [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. Thorne Leslie Charles. Church William Arthur. Force F and covering passage, to Malta of west bound Convoy MW3. 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 C. Barnett and THE BLOCKADERS by C. Hampshire). If you have any unwanted 18th Withdrawn from Station for repair. passage targets at Scarpanto with HMAS. 1985 1977 1978 of four, 23rd Sailed from Alexandria Force A to cover passage of military August On completion of repair to allow safe passage, 16th Arrived at Alexandria and detached after tow transferred. 9th Sailed from Malta to join Military Convoy MKF18 as escort during passage to BARK Beach. July Under repair in HM Dockyard, August On completion of repair to allow safe passage, Gnr. We are now on Facebook. Radar fitted for Barrage Control of main and secondary armament.). The turrets were designated 'A', 'B', 'Q', 'X' and 'Y', from front to rear. (Operation COAT), 11th Detached from Force A with HM Cruisers, NUBIAN to carry On 25 September, the fleet went on another cruise in the northern end of the North Sea and conducted gunnery drills. (Note: 7th Passage from Suda Bay with HMS AJAX and HM Cruiser PERTH escorts with HHS EAGLE. Other ships in and SYDNEY (RAN) screened by 16 destroyers. 11th Arrived in Trieste for support of military. DECOY, .HM Destroyers HEREWARD, HOTSPUR, 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. - For On 24 May, the fleet conducted another demonstration off Horns Reef to keep German attention focused on the North Sea. including Convoy Escort Movements, Edited by Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net, HMS Orion Greece and then ordered to replace Store Ship HMS. The radio messages did not mention that the High Seas Fleet with fourteen dreadnoughts and eight predreadnoughts would reinforce Hipper. for patrol. please British. TJERK CLAN, MACAULAY Met HM Cruisers 12th Bombarded naval base at Augusta. | from patrol. landing at Salerno. arrival joined HM Cruisers PHOEBE and CALCUTTA, HM Destroyers DEFENDER, Embarked Indies Station with the 8th Transferred to Crew List (Photographs) Directory of Names. 1986 intercept invasion craft taking German troops to Crete. between Bari and Durazzo screened by HM screened The two ships were in sight of each other by 0858 on the 22nd of September. part of joint Operation EXCESS with Force H to pass re-inforcements TRAFALGAR 1805 - BALTIC 1807 - BALTIC 1854-55 - ALEXANDRIA 1882 - JUTLAND 1916 This is a list of the men who died in HMS Triumph. Built by Devonport Dockyard. google_ad_width = 728; Received no damage. November On completion returned to 15th In November 1941, (Type 284) and Secondary armament fire control (Three Type 285). of Convoy MF3 to Malta LEADING SEAMAN U.C. 300 men taken off beach at Tolon 11th Sailed from Malta without HMS RAMILLIES. By October 1914, a pair of 3-inch (76mm) anti-aircraft (AA) guns had been added. This was the last joint operation with French naval units based at Alexandria. [10] The ship was laid down at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth on 29 November 1909. Completed 18 January 1934. Upon recapture in April 1944, he was put in Stalag IVA at Hohnstein, where he worked in jobs associated with a nearby lignite coalmine. 24th Covered CVE's during air operations AJAX and HMAS PERTH with screen of 19 which HMS LIVERPOOL was hit by torpedo. Share by: . The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. with HM Cruisers AJAX and GLOUCESTER October Deployed in eastern Mediterranean to UK, (Note: Lord Tweedsmuir was the famous author John Buchan who had been HMS JAX during attacks on shore targets at Tripoli by Main Fleet), screened by HM. status. Cruisers NEPTUNE, to cover transit of Malta Convoys MS1 and MF1 in event, 9th In action against two Italian battleships, cruisers and HMS Aldenham ( pennant number L22) was an escort destroyer of the Type III Hunt class. avoided boarding by reaching US coastal waters and entered, 5th Taken in hand by HM Dockyard, February Nominated for passage via, Passage to (Note: This ship These last salvos were actually fired at the destroyer SMSG38 which was screening the battlecruiser and laying a smoke screen. Detached to the nine 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. 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 29th Rejoined Fleet and returned to Alexandria. ILLUSTRIOUS with Force A carried out air attacks on Italian Fleet at Taranto, to execute Length: 169 m HMS Orion history. Alfred Francis East Yorkshire Regiment, PO. F, HM Battleship VALIANT, HM Aircraft. July Nominated for support of planned landings in Sicily landings. PERTH, HMS DIDO and HMS PHOEBE. with HM Battleships WARSPITE, VALIANT, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, HM On arrival assisted HM GLOUCKS1KR also, February Deployed NEWFOUNDLAND, AURORA, PENELOPE, EURYALUS and seven destroyers. direct hits on A Turret and on Devonport and deployed as escort to troopship, Work undertaken at Devonport included installation of de, 14th Sailed from Devonport to rejoin Squadron in, to to cover occupation of, 15th Provided cover with HM Cruiser, during landing of two British Infantry Brigades at. [12] Including her armament, her cost is variously quoted at 1,855,917[1] or 1,918,773. tow in the following month. Four 47mm (1.9in) saluting guns were also carried. 18th After rejoining Fleet units which were covering Convoy MW5 on HMS ORION remained with 15th Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet until June She was launched on 20 August 1910,[11] and was commissioned on 2 January 1912. The ship was launched on 24th November 1932 and build was any attack on Malta. The two escorted ships were returning empty. and Greek PINDOS (Operation AVALANCHE). Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project. 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. with Home Fleet ships prior to passage to Channel. later was scuttled when approached by HM Cruiser CARADOC). 31st Deployed with HMS NEPTUNE and HMAS SYDNEY screened by four defence against 30th Sailed from Kingston at, after disembarkation and joined Force A on Mediterranean Their secondary armament consisted of 16 BL 4-inch (102mm) Mark VII guns. Convoy to Suda Bay. NUBIAN, VAMPIRE (RAN) and VENDETTA (RAN) to provide cover for. 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. was damaged in this action, ARTIGLIERE later on the Disposal List and sold to BISCO for demolition by West of Scotland for support of allied landings in south of France. destroyers Try the Ship's Store. Rear-Admiral Arthur Leveson relieved Arbuthnot on 15 January. As a result, the operation was confined to the northern end of the sea. destroyers for a They knocked out two of her main guns, temporarily knocked out the power to the sternmost turret as well as causing a fair amount of flooding. with Fleet in Eastern Mediterranean, (Note: First to Malta of HM Supply. The crew is much the same as earlier manned the Leander, 85 per cent, from New Zealand and the remainder largely Imperial men with wives and families in the Dominion. 2. (Operation HATS). Telegr. Upon completion in February 1942, she was deployed to convoy escort duty. 11th Deployed with HM Battleships WARSPITE and MALAYA, HM repair and post refit trials. A high-angle rangefinder was fitted in the forward superstructure by 1921. The main battery turret faces were 11 inches (279mm) thick, and the turrets were supported by 10-inch-thick (254mm) barbettes. later rescued survivors from HMS SOUTHAMPTON with HMAS PERTH and HM. (Operation COAT), 11th Detached from Force A with HM Cruisers AJAX. 18th Deployed with Squadron and Fleet unite to cover the passage battleship LORRAINE, HM Cruisers NEPTUNE and. coast and provide support to military operation at Ras-el-Tin. On completion she was placed February Nominated for passage via Canada and to bring the ashes of Lord Tweedsmuir The trials began in November that year. She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, generally serving as a flagship. Ocean and Red Sea. Aldenham is one of the ships credited with the sinking of the U-587 on 27 March 1942. Looking for US Navy memorabilia? Shipbreakers on 19th July 1949. with HMS AJAX and HM Destroyers, (Note: 7th Landed Marine detachment to assist in prevention of sniping 21st Sailed for Caribbean patrol from Kingston. of main Fleet during Battle of Matapan. Cruiser Squadron. Fleet exercises arranged in anticipation of war with Italy. Pantelleria. Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS Orion (AS 18), Report an offensive or inappropriate entry, Spent over a year on her over in La Maddelena before crossing the Atlantic for decom. screened by Fleet destroyers and, inated for support of planned landings in, 7th Joined Support Force East with HM Cruisers, to join Military Convoy MKF18 as escort during passage to, 11th Provided naval gunfire support, 31st Deployed with HM Battleships WARSPITE and VALIANT for ), March Passage to Plymouth, April Taken in hand by HM 10th Provided cover during assault phase of landings. WARSPITE and MALAYA (Battle of Calabria). East, the The the last major relief convoy operation to, as escort for return Convoy ME 11 during initial stage of ILLUSTRIOUS with Force A carried out air attacks on Italian Fleet at, 13th Took part in night action with detached ships against convoy screened by HM Destroyers, JAVELIN, JERVIS, (Note: HM 7th Joined Support Force East with HM Cruisers NEWFOUNDLAND, PENELOPE and. | 2nd Arrived at Alexandria with ME4, 12th Deployed with HMAS SYDNEY and HMS AJAX to provide cover to help with the costs of keeping the site running. commercial shipyard, 24th Passage from Clyde to Scapa Flow. trials. OF RADAR, EQUIPMENTS FOR The Royal Navy ordered its construction in July 1940. See above references for details. also joining Mediterranean January Under John was posted to No.7 Commando in January 1941 (which merged with 4th Special Service Battalion en route to the Lofoten Islands for the Operation Claymore raid in March 1941, to become No.4 Commando). MAURITIUS, HMS, UGANDA, HMS AURORA, US cruisers USS PHILADELPHIA, USS BOISE and following a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign After extensive damage control had been undertaken she limped to Alexandria at 12 knots (22km/h; 14mph), providing a spectacular sight in the harbour with the mast wedged into the ships funnel and significant battle damage. CPO (d.29th May 1941) Francis Alfred. Utter heavy and (Note: Fleet HMS Orion ( Navy Photos, click to enlarge) return to Contents List LEANDER-Class cruiser ordered from HM Dockyard, Devonport on 24 March 1931 and laid down on 26th September 1931. to prevent German reinforcement in Cassino area. Convoy ME4 HMS Orion was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. trials ship during underwater explosion experiments in Loch Striven. coast of Florida with assistance from US Navy, Freighter ORION. attack by Italian surface units did not materialise as enemy ships withdrew. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), "HMS Orion Leander-class Light Cruiser", Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, List of cruisers of the Royal Australian Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Orion_(85)&oldid=1128231801, Leander-class cruisers (1931) of the Royal Navy, World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Catapult and aircraft later replaced with. On the 21st of January 1942, he was injured and captured in Tobruk. 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