NHF has decommissioned and is no longer accepting new members or donations. World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper (1,256 GRT) was scuttled at Brest, France. However, Chapter 10, Those Who Died, comprises nearly one-third of the book and lists the names of 1,431 individuals from 39 different military units along with, where possible, their ranks, service numbers and designations of regiments or corps. Two crew were killed. It was like sitting in a giant bathtub full of freezing water, he recalls. Captain Sharp would lose his life on September 12, 1942, when the HMT Laconia, was sunk northeast of Ascension Island off the coast of West Africa by Kriegsmarine U-156, a Type IXC boat then attached to the 4th U-boat Flotilla. There are 1,472 names on his list of the deceased, extracted from the War Graves website, but theCommonwealth War Graves Commission records 1,816 burials with more than 400 in France (Fenby 2005, p. 234) and the Lancastria Association identifies 1,738 individuals that died aboard the ship . What had happened was that Id lain there, grieving away, and my blood had stopped flowing. please notify usmm.org @ comcast.net, Taken to Norway; Soviet Unio; Norway; released Owners and gross tonnage (G.T.) NHF members are being converted to members of the Naval Institute. There were multiple air raids and, in addition, the British feared possible U-boat attacks, so Captain Sharp decided to wait for a Royal Navy and/or RAF escort. World War II: The armed merchant cruiser (17,046 GRT, 1925) was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean west of. The much smaller vessel immediately laid a smoke screen which it used as cover to launch hit-and-run torpedo attacks. are also recorded at the top of the card.From left to right, the six columns on the card will tell you: the year, current voyage and . Once the ship was on its way in a convoy escorted by vessels from the Royal Navy Colin read books in the library and played games on deck. Today, it sits in a glass case at the Imperial War Museum in London a reminder of all the children whose parents loved them too much to keep them at home. For the scuttling of RFA Oleander on this day, see the entry for 26 May 1940. They were in their dressing-gowns, with no life-belt, clutching teddy bears. For his part, Colin was starting to realise how hard it would be to marshal all the children into the lifeboats. It was no ordinary jacket. He states that The time taken to record everybodys name, rank, service number and regiment or corps would have been time consuming and served no purpose (vii). The other ten or so whod been with them had drowned. Of the 38 people in his boat, only 14 remained. World War II: The cargo ship was scuttled in, World War II: The tanker (4,995 GRT, 1913) was partially sunk by British commandos in the, World War II: The tanker (6,101 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The cargo ship (6,470 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The trawler (203 GRT) was bombed and sunk in the. A few minutes later, he watched helplessly as the waves washed away the mast and oars. Under the command of Captain HL Upton, she . Only extraordinary circumstancesparticularly the lack of Combat Air Patrolmade the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day. As it grew lighter, he could see corpses floating around each lifeboat. Wynn cites seven online sources (p. 181), namely the British Newspaper Archive, the Britain at War website, the British section of Ancestry.com, the Militarian Forum, the Forces War Records, the Wartime Memories Project, and the War Graves Records, which appear to have been mistakenly recorded as a .com website rather than .org. When sent to newspapers or other publications it prevented particular information from being made public for reasons of state security. Some survivors claimed that a bomb had gone straight down a funnel, others thought bombs hit No, 4, 2, and 3 holds. The ship was among twenty others that participated in the evacuation of 2,653 British, French, and Polish troops from Norway when Operation Alphabet began on May 24,1940. World War II: The coaster (397 GRT) struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with all seven hands. 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Within half an hour, four of the crew members on his boat had slipped into unconsciousness and died. How ironic it is that the second Apapa was making the identical voyage from the Lagos port that shared her name to Liverpool. At 11, Colin was already a veteran of wartime upheavals. Franconia was assigned to Lorient while Lancastria continued toward St. Nazaire but because of the tidal channel on the Loire estuary Lancastria had to anchor in the Charpentier Roads about 5 nm (nautical miles) southwest of the actual port. World War II: The auxiliary patrol vessel (1,160 GRT, 1934) struck a mine of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France and was beached. A camera crew onboard the Scharnhorst filmed the engagement, and the Gloriouss sinking, which you can see here. Then, one day, he developed an infection and had to be sent to an isolation ward to recover. Some survivors claimed that a bomb had gone straight down a funnel, others thought bombs hit No, 4, 2, and 3 holds. She was later salvaged by the Germans and entered service as. From somewhere out there in the deep, a German U-boat had fired a torpedo directly into the ship, just below the childrens sleeping quarters. A pre-war photograph of the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff in Hamburg. Fateful: The S.S City of Benares, passenger ship is launched in 1936 and would later be sunk while carrying 90 children aged five to 15. World War II: The cargo ship (2,483 GRT, 1894) was scuttled in Churchill Sound, World War II: The cargo ship (5,403 GRT, 1919) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The naval trawler (357 GRT, 1928) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The dredger (1,832 GRT, 1903) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The tanker (8,215 GRT, 1931) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The cargo ship (6,466 GRT, 1924) was intercepted in the, World War II: The cargo ship was sunk in the port of, World War II: Operation Juno: The tanker (5,978 GRT, 1929) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The cargo liner (13,212 GRT, 1939) was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Finisterre (. If it can be proved that Captain Sharp ignored the Ministry of Defence instructions not to exceed the maximum loading capacity of 3000 persons, grounds for compensation claims could be enormous. The numbers of passengers aboard, survivors, and casualties are unreported or vary wildly. Empire Morn killed 26th April 1943 after his ship hit a mine. All morning, Colin continued to heave corpses away from his boat. Scharnhorst limped home, listing at five degrees, and would spend the next six months in Trondheim, Norway undergoing repairs. Lancastria was attacked, apparently by five Junkers Ju 88 dive bombers, and the ship capsized, and sank within twenty minutes mid-afternoon on June 17 off the French port of St. Nazaire. At 19, he joined the Royal Navy for his National Service. those of the BBC. Battleships accompanied by other surface warships did directly engage carriers one more time in World War II during the Battle of Samar, though this time the U.S. carriers air wings participated in the fight leading to a very different, though no less dramatic outcome. World War II: The unfinished, 84% complete, World War II: The cargo ship (1,885 GRT, 1904) was torpedoed and sunk in the, The auxiliary schooner (144 GRT) sank off, World War II: The coaster (276 GRT) was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel south of, World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine in the, World War II: The cargo ship (569 GRT, 1889) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The auxiliary patrol vessel (48 GRT) was scuttled at, World War II: The cargo ship (5,253 GRT, 1911) was captured in the, World War II: The cargo ship (5,968 GRT, 1921) struck a mine and sank in the, The cargo ship (7,881 GRT, 1922) ran aground south of, World War II: The cargo ship (4,005 GRT, 1924) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The tanker (2,580 GRT, 1928) was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 160 nautical miles (300km; 180mi) south west of the, World War II: The cargo ship (663 GRT, 1897) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The trawler (211 GRT) was bombed and sunk by a Do17Z aircraft of 3./Kstenfliegergruppe 606 (, World War II: The cargo ship (5,053 GRT, 1929) was torpedoed and sunk in the. Taking Vitamin D each day could cut your chances of getting dementia, study claims. The list of shipwrecks in June 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1940. World War II: The ocean liner (9,345 GRT, 1906) was bombed and sunk at Le Havre, France by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of six crew. She was requisitioned as an accommodation ship in 1940, but was briefly removed from service in 1942 so she could play the part of the Titanic in a crude German propaganda film about the sinking of the famous vessel. For the first few days after his rescue, he remained very weak as the Hurricane took the survivors to Glasgow. On December 19, 1940, the 'Isolda' was bombed by German plane and sunk three miles south of the Saltee Island. His spirits lifted as he spotted a light but it was only the conning tower of the U-boat, which had surfaced to check out the scene. SS Emidio in Vancouver, June 1932. Despite his mothers disapproval, Colin developed a curious desire to return to the sea. "Verluste Deutscher Handelsschiffe 1939-1945 und unter deutscher Flagge fahrender auslndischer Schiffe: 1940", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_shipwrecks_in_June_1940&oldid=1142243449, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, World War II: The cargo ship (4,220 GRT) was bombed and damaged in the North Sea 13 nautical miles (24km) off, World War II: The coaster (281 GRT, 1896) was bombed and sunk in the, World War II: The trawler (195 GRT) was bombed and sunk in the North Sea (. His recovery took months, and ended any thoughts hed had of a full-time career in the Navy. The site of the sinking is not an official War Grave safeguarded by The Protection of Military Remains Act of 1986 because the British have no jurisdiction over the French territorial waters where Lancastrias wreck lies, but the French government has provided an appropriate level of protection to the site, prohibiting diving on the wreck, for example. Those who survived the incident were instructed not to speak about their experience. Contributed on: 22 May 2005. 1 June [ edit] 2 June [ edit] 3 June [ edit] 4 June [ edit] 5 June [ edit] 6 June [ edit] 7 June [ edit] 8 June [ edit] The RMS Queen Mary is now a floating hotel located in . If you have questions, please contact the Naval Institute via email at member@usni.org or by phone at 800-233-8764. Under the British Official Secrets Act, the report on the Lancastria cannot be published until the year 2040. For any other comments, please Contact Us. A2477018. "Naval Events, June 1940, Part 1 of 4, Saturday 1st Friday 7th", "Norwegian Homefleet - WW II, Ships starting with Sa through SN", "The History of the Eastbourne Lifeboat Station", alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (T), "Naval Events, May 1940, Part 1 of 4, Wednesday 1st Tuesday 7th", "Naval Events, June 1940, Part 2 of 4, Saturday 8th Friday 14th", "Norwegian Homefleet - WW II, Ships starting with K", "Tyne Built Ships. Both the 20,000 ton liner Oronsay and the Franconia were damaged by bombs and strafing, the former had her bridge devastated while the damaged Franconia was able to limp back to England for repairs. 'This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen!' World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper (675 GRT, 1911) was scuttled at Cherborug, France. On No. Kenneth and Raymond Lewis are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London on Panel 49. World War II: The cargo ship (4,499 GRT) was scuttled at Brest, France. Theyd just woken up.. In the Hotel Berlin, the Gestapo is searching for underground leader Martin Richter. World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper (261 GRT, 1918) was scuttled at Lorient, France. But Colin Ryder Richardson, snug in his bunk, saw no reason for alarm. World War II: The cargo ship (873 or 909 GRT, 1904) struck a mine off Cape Granitola, Italy and sank. The gloves became essential in the hours ahead in helping him keep a grip on the gunwales. However, in May 24, the Allies began evacuating forces in Norway due to Germanys successful offensives into the Low Countries and France. But the battlecruisers retaliatory fire was devastating, and the Acastas blazing wrecked dipped stern-first into the water after 6 p.m. By then, the starboard-listing Glorious had also sunk. Measuring some 697 feet (212 metres) in length, it could carry . World War II: The tanker (2,454 GRT, 1888) was sunk as a block ship at Dieppe, France. World War II: The tug (239 GRT) struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. 'Dreadful time': A letter sent by a survivor of the sinking to their parents tell of their horrendous experience on the sinking ship. What had happened was that Id lain there, grieving away, and my blood had stopped flowing. I realised she was sinking, so I put my arm around her and tried to keep her head above the water.. Britain Ship Losses 1940 This page records the details of every British ship lost during the two world wars, including pictures where possible. World War II: The cargo ship (1,684 GRT, 1920) was bombed and sunk in the English Channel off Le Havre, France by Luftwaffe aircraft. World War II: The captured ex-Dutch coastal defence ship (5,002 t, 1904) was bombed and sunk at, World War II: The naval yacht (196 GRT, 1938) struck a mine and sank in the, World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean (, World War II: The cargo ship (1,888 GRT) was torpedoed and sunk in the, World War II: The tanker (7,011 GRT, 1922) was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by, World War II: The cargo ship (5,154 GRT, 1918) was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay (, The cargo ship (2,724 or 2,608 GRT, 1929) collided with another vessel and sank in the. Wynn does not clarify what materials he utilized from these sources and there are no footnotes, in-text citations, or endnotes. Nevertheless, within hours of disembarking troops at Liverpool on June 14th, Lancastria was reassigned, along with the 20,341 gross tons liner Franconia, to Operation Aerial, the evacuation of British civilians, embassy staff, and support troops from France. What a story, and how lucky are we,born just after WW2, for the brave men and women, who fought for our freedom, Your email address will not be published. Industry chief demands planned corporation tax hike from 19 to 25% in this Ukrainian soldier takes out five Russian tanks and three armoured vehicles in ONE DAY using US-supplied Ukraine 'hits major Russian air base in fresh strike' a day after kamikaze drone crashed down just 68 miles How did Russia lose HALF of its 45,000 elite paratroopers in just seven months? Archive List > World > North Atlantic and Arctic. Ships Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. As it hovered over the waves, it suddenly lurched, then one end jerked downwards and was smashed by a wall of water. This was the date on which, the RMS Lancastria was sunk off the French port of Nantes, with an unknown loss of life. 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