In January 1797, Indefatigable and Amazon captured the packet Sangossee. ACTING LEADING ENGINEER MECHANIC Served from 1953 - 1955 Served in HMS Indefatigable Albert Cooper ABLESEAMAN Served from 1954 - 1956 Served in HMS Indefatigable John Cole Served from 1944 - 1944 Served in HMS Indefatigable Tommy Gilmore LT-CDR RNR (RTD.) By creating an account you agree to us emailing you with newsletters and discounts, which you can switch off in your account at any time. The BPF had been scheduled to withdraw after 10 August to prepare for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu scheduled for November, and the bulk of the force departed for Manus on 12 August. Virginie carried 44 guns, 18 and 9-pounders, and had a crew of 340 men under the command of Citizen Bergeret, Capitaine de Vaisseau. [75] Foxhound was also in company for the capture of Nymphe. [46] On 11 February Indefatigable captured the Vidette. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. [10] The vessels sharing in the prize money were: Indefatigable, Concorde, Rvolutionnaire, Amazon, Argo, and the hired armed cutter Dolly and hired armed lugger Duke of York.[11]. She was recommissioned under Captain Graham Moore, younger brother of Sir John Moore of Rifle Brigade and Corunna fame. Amazon also ran onto the shore; still, almost her entire crew survived both the battle and the grounding and were captured. Then Indefatigable captured Mede, and Lively captured Clara. [81][g], On 17 September Indefatigable, Hearty, Desiree, Drake, Primrose, and Cretan shared in the capture of Dankbarheide. Maurice D. Dymocke. [75], In April 1809 Indefatigable participated in the battle of the Basque Roads. She also had four feet of water in her hold from shot holes. We are glad to list them on our acknowledgements page: NB! She was eight days out of Ostend but had taken no prizes. Brown 2009, pp. She was 36 days out of Brest and, during that time, had captured only one ship, a large American vessel named the Providence which had a cargo of cotton and sugar. Flight operations resumed on the morning of the 15th after an operational pause to refuel. [68] She was six years old, had a burthen of 482 tons (bm), was armed with fourteen 9 and 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 68 men. 45; Friedman, p. 143; Lenton, p. 103. It was a Queen Elizabeth class of ship and had six similar counterparts. Captain John Grindle was appointed to command on 24 March 1950 and the ship was recommissioned on 28 May. Captain Quintin Graham was appointed to command the ship in August 1943. Indefatigable was sold for scrap the following year. Crew list photos of HMS Indefatigable H.M.S. Cyril H. G. Summers. [citation needed], By July Indefatigable was back in Portsmouth. The ship exercised with the Home Fleet and made a port visit to Casablanca, Morocco, before visiting Gibraltar. The Implacable-class carriers were equipped with two lifts on the centreline, the forward of which measured 45 by 33 feet (13.7 by 10.1m) and served only the upper hangar, and the aft lift (45 by 22 feet (13.7 by 6.7m)), which served both hangars. He stationed the light cruiser Gloucester at the southern exit, and sent Indomitable to coal at Bizerte, where she was ready for action in the Western Mediterranean. Indefatigable remained in the Mediterranean until she was relieved by Inflexible on 24 January 1915 and proceeded to Malta for a refit; she then sailed to England on 14 February and joined the 2nd BCS upon her arrival. She had left the Gironde the evening before on this, her second voyage, to India. [52] Indefatigable had been chasing Venus from the morning when in the afternoon Fisgard came in sight and forced Venus to turn. [21] She was launched on 8 December 1942 by Victoria of Hesse, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. [13] Indefatigable, Amazon, and Concorde chased Virginie, with Indefatigable catching her just after midnight on 21 April after a chase of 15 hours and 168 miles (270km). 6in-4in - bulkheads. [25] The battle ended with Droits de l'Homme being driven onto shore in a gale. Pellew estimated that, had she not lost her foretopmast in the chase, she might have escaped. Gunner 1923. On the first day, a pair of Fireflies encountered five Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia" dive bombers and shot down four of them. 1, p. 181. By 15:54, the range was down to 12,900 yards (11,800m) and Beatty ordered a course change two points to starboard to open up the range at 15:57. One crew member, Petty Officer Trick rapidly drifted away from the overturned hull of the whaler and Terry desperately swam after him. The site also provides information and data about the records of British merchant shipping with records of every British registered ship from 1855 to the 1950s - all 200,000 of them. Compiled a further 470,000 records of ships from the Mercantile Navy List, making the largest database of British registered ships of the era. Henry S. King. [54] Indefatigable was then paid off later that year. [61] This cutting out expedition resulted in the participants qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "16 July Boat Service 1806". Last updated on: [26] The ship was assigned to the Home Fleet and was working up over the next several months while the Fairey Fireflies of 1770 Squadron flew aboard on 18 May. Extract from the Engineer Build to defeat German excellence and cement the presence of the British in naval combat, this ship is a famous veteran of World War I. Duncan B Denzil C. Tudball. [52] Indefatigable and Fisgard shared the prize money with Boadicea, Diamond, Urania, and the hired armed schooner Earl St Vincent.[53]. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 January 1950 - British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men. [citation needed], In 1794, she was razed; her upper gun deck was cut away to convert her into a large and heavily armed frigate. Kitt, Robert Francis - Stoker 1st Class Laing, Henry George Stobart - Lieutenant [16], Details of the Implacable-class ships' radar suite are not readily available. Read; View source; . The squadron was followed by the Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers of 826 Squadron in June. While still in the water, two survivors found Indefatigable's captain, C. F. Sowerby, who was badly wounded and died before they could be . The British captured the French corvette Csar (or Caesar), which the Royal Navy took into service as HMS Cesar. We are delighted to help with advice about finding records (that's what CLIP and this web site is all about) but please do not ask us HMS Barham. Indefatigable aimed at Von der Tann and New Zealand targeted Moltke while remaining unengaged herself. [39], On 14 January 1799, Indefatigable recaptured Argo, Rich, master, which had been sailing from Gothenburg for Boston when a French privateer had captured her. [76], Four months later, on 6 May Indefatigable captured two French chasse marees, Camilla and Bonne Rencontre; Scipion and Piercer were in company. [54] Indefatigable joined her sister for fleet exercises off the Scilly Isles and in the Bristol Channel in September and October before beginning her annual refit on 6 October. When news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 reached Britain, the Royal Navy seized all American vessels then in British ports. J10641 John Williams, born 19th May 1894. 1916 - HMS Indefatigable -was Launched in 1909. Two days later Captain Robert Sherbrooke, VC, relieved Grindle and Indefatigable began her sea trials on 28 June. Both British vessels arrived at Venus at almost the same time (7pm). [10], She received a fire-control director between mid-1915 and May 1916 that centralised fire control under the director officer who now fired the guns. In a twenty-minute bombardment, a single shell struck the magazine of the fort at Sedd el Bahr at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula, displacing (but not destroying) 10 guns and killing 86 Turkish soldiers. [63] Then on the day after Christmas, Indefatigable and Tribune captured the American ship Eliza. [85], Indefatigable was finally paid off in 1815. Terms of Service apply. Alongside that we provide data and image sets relating to [15], The Germans sortied from Messina on 6 August and headed east, toward Constantinople, trailed by Gloucester. [13] She had 14 or 15 men killed, 17 badly wounded, and 10 slightly. 2616 The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (Designation of Vessels and Controlled Sites) Order 2006", "The Battle of Jutland's Heritage under Threat: The Extent of Commercial Salvage on the Shipwrecks as Observed 20002016", "The Opening and Closing Sequences of the Battle of Jutland 1916 Re-examined: Archaeological Investigations of the Wrecks of HMS, Maritimequest HMS Indefatigable Photo Gallery, Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project HMS Indefatigable Crew List, List of battlecruisers of the Royal Australian Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Indefatigable_(1909)&oldid=1141693257, World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, North Sea articles missing geocoordinate data, Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 09:07. Similarly, the same vessels shared by agreement in Dasher's capture of Bien Aim on 23 July 1801. )1949: HMS Protector (for duty in HMS Royal Sovereign) 14.06. . Thus, Pellew reported that, on 30 April 1797, "we" captured the French brigantine privateer Basque. first read carefully through the details on this site. By all accounts, James Cook's HMS Endeavour sojourn in Tahiti was a pivotal moment in . HMS INDEFATIGABLE The fates would not give him a second chance On 28th October 1914, at the time Turkey entered the 1st World War my grandfather, Rowland Lickbarrow Randle, a Royal Navy petty officer, was 'serving the pinnace' at the British Embassy in Constantinople (now Istanbul). . [56] They were carrying bullion from Montevideo, South America to Spain. Set up a site giving access to images of 70 editions of the Mercantile Navy List - both our own images and sets from the Maritime History Archive in Newfoundland, (with their kind permission). This battleship is the stuff of legend. [16], On 3 November 1914, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the first British attack on the Dardanelles following the commencement of hostilities between Ottoman Turkey and Russia. [5] On 17 February 1795, a further two 12-pounder guns were added to her quarterdeck, though her official rating remained unchanged. She was armed with eight guns and had a crew of 50 men. [11], The ship's main armament consisted of sixteen quick-firing (QF) 4.5-inch (114mm) dual-purpose guns in eight twin-gun turrets, four in sponsons on each side of the hull. She was 14 days out of Bordeaux. [a] Blonde had 16 guns and a crew of 95 men. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her active service took place after her conversion to a 44-gun razee frigate. British shipping, at that time the largest merchant fleet in the world, is also well documented and we explain how to access those records too. By Walter Burroughs A summary of this paper was presented at a conference held from 30 September to 01 October 2014 at the Universidad Andres Bello, Chile on the maritime The ship arrived at Sydney on 18 September and began a leisurely refit that lasted until 15 November. [13] Indefatigable had no casualties. James Crook. [29] Hyne had apparently mistaken Indefatigable for a vessel from Portuguese India. On November 11, 1944, HMS Indefatigable hoisted the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian who had just been appointed Commander (Aircraft Carriers) for the new British Pacific Fleet. Psychogeography. 9 Naval Torpedo-Bomber Reconnaissance Wing, Armoured aircraft carrier action and damage reports, 1940-1945, Maritimequest HMS Indefatigable photo gallery, Darrell V. Bumby RN Collection on MaritimeQuest, List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Indefatigable_(R10)&oldid=1120025152, World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom, Cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [38], At dawn on 31 December 1798, Indefatigable captured the Minerve, five leagues off Ushant. John E. Gifford. Surgeon Indefatigablehad an overall length of 590 feet (179.8 m), a beamof 80 feet (24.4 m), and a draughtof 29 feet 9 inches (9.1 m) at deep load. Made over 63,000 images of crew list documents. [10], Between 11 and 21 March Indefatigable's squadron captured the vessels Favorite Sultana, Friends, Providence, Four Marys, Aimable Justine, and Nouvelle Union. Made the first full transcription from the shipping registers for a group of ports. On 13 April 1796, Indefatigable was in pursuit of a French frigate. Each hangar had a height of only 14 feet which precluded storage of Lend-Lease Vought F4U Corsair fighters as well as many post-war aircraft and helicopters. Leonard H. Lindner. He was a Chief Petty Officer and came from Wolverhampton. Their armoured deck ranged in thickness between 1.5 and 2.5 inches (38 and 64mm) with the thickest portions protecting the steering gear in the stern. [22] More recent archaeological evidence shows that the ship was actually blown in half within the opening minutes of the engagement with Von der Tann which fired only fifty-two 28cm (11in) shells at Indefatigable before the fore part of the ship also exploded. HMS INDEFATIGABLE - Implacable-class Fleet Aircraft Carrier. 10thFeb 2023 - 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. Later Captain Robert Sherbrooke, VC, relieved Grindle and Indefatigable began sea! 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