We will keep your details safe and will only ever send you relevant communications. Unfortunately I cannot find my note with the exact PRO(NA) reference but logs of HM Ships are generally in ADM53 - if you are able to get there it is easily located. HMS Hecla was the lead ship of the Hecla class, an oceangoing survey ship type in the Royal Navy. With a clearly westerly wind prevailing, the progress of both ships was impeded andGriperwas falling behind. if (year < 1000) year+=1900 [3] Her armament consisted of one 13 inch mortar, one 10 inch mortar, eight 24 pounder carronades, and six 2 pounder guns. entitled to a tot and anything that could effect the numbers being fed dailyinfo[20]=' 11634 Labourer YANG FU CHING 11th Coy. June 27, 2017 I believe my father was a crew member on HMS Hecla. var day=mydate.getDay() The National Archives. [Click on 'Add Reply' in the bottom right corner, rather than 'Report', to post a message]. Anyhow he survived so if there was just one he was it. dailyinfo[2]=' 8020 Serjeant Charles POOLE "C" Coy. Kenneth Charles Collings (right) and L. Rowles possibly at Freetown, Sierra Leone. A further addition to the story is . gun. Middlesex Regiment who died 25/02/1921 LADYWELL CEMETERY United Kingdom ' Royal Navy sign on for several years and are drafted to their next ship The explosion hit amidships, put the steering gear out of action and caused a big leak. Regards, Coy. April 14, 2010: George Male and Portsmouth News Defence Correspondent Matt Jackson seen at the National Museum of the Royal Navy during the launch of the book A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous. On 21 April 1971, two launches attached to HMS Hecate were towed out to sea and bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while the vessels were moored at Baltimore, Republic . The entire crew would be on double pay, each man provided with a wolf-skin blanket, and the ships had been victualled with 12,000lb of carrots, 9,600 quarts of vegetable soup, 5,000 cans of beef, a vast supply of lemon juice, and over 1,000 gallons of rum. for the men. also use it on this page. commissioned the ship's complement would join her from the Naval Once docked the men set about securing the two vessels and preparing them for the long Arctic winter. Such entries recount the distressing episode on boardHecla, namely the non-cookery of our pies in proper time for dinner'[16]or proposals for the eradication of snoring at night. HMS_HECLA-Crew List Crew list and index to the lives of the 658 men in HMS HECLA when she was torpedoed and sunk on 11 - 12 November 1942 A HARD FOUGHT SHIP The story of HMS Venomous Crew List & Index The Ship's Complement of HMS Hecla on Armistice Day 1942, the day she was torpedoed and sunk Merchant dailyinfo[8]=' Ersatz-Reservist August KOOP 5./I.R.425 German Army who died 08/02/1919 ADINKERKE MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium ' and Gen. Hos. It seems that the Hecla may have been stationed on the western side of the lough as my Grandfather is buried in Rathmullan churchyard which is to the west - a second is buried on 'the other side of the lough' in the churchyard of Lower Fahan Churchyard. Backed by a wind pushing her further into the Lancaster Sound, two shores could be seen, rocky and mountainous to the south, and another, smooth and lower to the north. Built to withstand the recoil of heavy mortar fire and to carry explosive materials, the strength and durability of the bombs made them an ideal choice to navigate the perilous regions of the Arctic. The worst of the damage was to her workshops and storerooms, scattering and destroying dozens of mines, torpedoes, and depth charges. HMS HECLA (ex-"British Crown") At Buncrana September 1917 to December 1918 as Depot Ship for 2nd Destroyer Flotilla and Auxilliary Patrol. [9], She, Flirt and Star of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla were paid off on 30 April 1912 and re-commissioned the following day. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces veterans on the web with over 500,000 members! The National Archives. A fourth ship, HMSHerald, was completed in the early 1970s. In the search for a safe place to set anchor and wait out the long dark winter in the Arctic, Parry steered a course towards the south coast of Melville Island. NH 60288 HMS HECLA (British Torpedo Depot Ship, 1878) Download Image: Low (PNG, 319x319px, 39KB) Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 122KB) High (TIFF, 5724x3720px, 20MB) Title: HMS HECLA (British Torpedo Depot Ship, 1878) Caption: Note torpedo boats on deck. Johnny Harber, Master of Arms, compiled a list of the men saved by HMS, . Kenneth Charles Collings (standing middle) and four unidentified crewmen seen on HMS Hecla. When looking at the Naval records and base ships such as HMS Hecla and HMS Blake you should look for a name in brackets after the base ship. Thought I had a picture somewhere, but I was mistaken. In smaller ships up to and including destroyers the master copy of Collingwood, UK. Bruce C. Collings A sketch made by Lt Herbert Hastings McWillias SANF aboard HMS, The following names can not be confirmed as being on board, The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), but without the live links to further details about the lives of the men in, Paymaster Captain, Paymaster Captain (S) Frank Leonard Monk RNR (1892-1942), list of those killed or Missing Presumed Killed The names of the men on the official corrected Admiralty. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Home Page for HMS Hecla, the destroyer depot ship torpedoed off north Africa, Armistice Day 1942 A HARD FOUGHT SHIP The story of HMS Venomous In memory of those who died when HMS Hecla sank on Armistice Day 1942 If you have stories to tell about HMS Hecla do please get in touch Phone: +44 1727-838595 From the log of the Hecla I was able to see the arrangements for the burial party, the funeral party and the firing party - all of which came from the Hecla. I believe that they have now been filmed. Have you traced your Grandfather's personal record? She was ordered in the mid-1960s, along with her sister ships HMS Hecate and HMS Hydra. All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only. By February the sun was spotted and the temperature slowly rose, though it was another six months before the ice began to break andHeclaandGriperwere ready to sail. http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php?title=H.M.S._Hecla_(1878)&oldid=331946. Lincolnshire Regiment who died 05/03/1916 CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES France ' Widely criticised, Ross expedition was regarded as a failure; the very existence of Crokers Mountains contested publicly. People missing from this listing? seamen sign on at the beginning of each voyage as I discovered in 1958 18. A huge success, the decision was taken to perform a play every fortnight for the men, quickly adapting original writings from the crew when reading material became scarce. I came across your website whilst browsing the internet and thought you may be interested to know that I have two original photographs of the crew and officers of HMS Lion ( photos on page 2 ). Officers and men in the [11] [12]. var mydate=new Date() When Paton visited this ship at Dysart in 1835 he wrote This is without exception the strongest I have met with. [8] These provisions were expected to last the expedition for up to two years, anything else needed would have to be caught or hunted, or traded for with the Inuit. dailyinfo[16]=' 26810 Corporal James PETERS Mentioned in Despatches 13th Bn. Bingham Service Record. Worcestershire Regiment who died 23/02/1915 LOKER CHURCHYARD Belgium ' In all 279 off her crew went down with the ship and 568 men were rescued. if you can provide photographs or further details of the lives of the men on this list. As Parry noted; I dreaded the want of employment as one of the worst things that could befall us. The National Archives. if (month<10) month="0"+month var dailyinfo= new Array(31) The National Archives. This is described (CWGC) as being in the main street of Buncara "which was a Naval Base during the Great War". image: HMS Hecla pitches sharply to one side. 5th Bde. If successful he was to put in at Kamchatka, pass copies of his journal to the Russian governor there, proceed to the Sandwich Islands or Canton, and then report back to Britain as soon as possible.[7]. He was awarded DSO, DSC, Coix de Guirre.". One of the highlights of my job working with Project Undaunted is that I never know what I will find from one day to the next. RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. These ledgers and service Their advance yielded the discovery of one smaller island, dubbed Prince Leopold Island, and a large inlet just before it on the south coast of the Sound. My Grandfather and two other seamen were drowned in the Lough on 7th April 1918 when their ship (HMS Nicator) arrived. In July she conducted trials and then returned to drydock for additional work, finally returning to operational status in September. Despite his unblemished naval record Ross appeared unwilling to explore the various passages in the ice, and declared that a range of mountains blocked the way through the Lancaster Sound. Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). As the principal port for the city of Edinburgh and the southeast of Scotland, it has been fascinating to document the shipping history of Leith through the eyes of Lloyd's Register's long serving surveyor, Walter Paton. Discover the Heritage & Education Centre's unique collections, from over 1.1 million digitised documents from our archive to our library catalogue of over 60,000 items. The writers and indeed all the supply staff,