[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. The upper hangar was 458 feet (139.6m) long and the lower hangar was 208 feet (63.4m) long; both had a maximum width of 62 feet (18.9m). HMS Indefatigable was the nameship of the Indefatigable class of battlecruisers. Indefatigable aimed at Von der Tann and New Zealand targeted Moltke while remaining unengaged herself. William F. R. A. Cooper. Pellew signalled to Rvolutionnaire to cut her off from the shore. Captain Henry Fancourt assumed command on 22 August to prepare for sea. Indefatigable and Amphion escorted Mede and Fama to Plymouth. We've spent a lot of time trying to make it as clear and helpful as possible. [32], On 30 April 1798, Indefatigable captured the brigantine privateer Basque. The next month, she was placed in reserve and Captain MacIntyre retired on 7 January 1947. 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. Lively had two killed and four wounded. None of what CLIP has achieved would have been possible without the kind assistance of many people. (60 m) in the air. On 11 June Vengeur had captured the Jersey-privateer lugger Snake. Scott Fitzgerald rather ignores the times: his works were all about very personal relationships. 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. On 9 August 1804 Indefatigable was in sight when HMSNautilus recaptured the West Indiaman William Heathcote off Bayonne. Their short range and lack of endurance was considered by Vian to be a severe handicap for the BPF, which returned to action on 4 May and again attacked targets in the Sakishima Islands. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indefatigable' (1784) British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indefatigable' (1784). Captain Charles F. Sowerby. when a wealth of detail about their lives is revealed. At 0723, roughly around the same time that X-6 was struggling, X-7 was successful in approaching without being detected, and delivered its cargo toward the stern of Tirpitz. Sub-Lieut. Her two consorts Sagesse and Eclatant escaped into the river. Gunner She had a crew of 737 officers and ratings. The Japanese fighters shot down one Seafire on their first pass and crippled an Avenger. Indefatigable shared this with Amazon, Rvolutionnaire, Concorde, and Argo. Stuart B. N. Bolton. Amphion had five men wounded, one badly. The British role during the operation was to neutralise airfields on the Sakishima Islands, between Okinawa and Formosa, beginning on 26 March. The ship was laid down later that year and launched on 8th December 1942. Cyril B. Hopkins. [21] It has been thought that the most likely cause of her loss was a deflagration or low-order explosion in 'X' magazine that blew out her bottom and severed the steering control shafts, followed by the explosion of her forward magazines from the second volley. Indefatigable was part of the squadron that shared by agreement in the prize money from the Temeraire, which Dasher had captured on 30 May. The BPF returned to the Sakishima Islands on 17 April before retiring to Leyte Gulf to rest and resupply. The waterline armour belt was 4.5 inches (114mm) thick, but only covered the central portion of the ship. The ship conducted uneventful patrols of the North Sea for the next year and a half. Finding records of individuals in this huge resource can be challenging, but it can also be rewarding [15] In 1847, the Admiralty authorised the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Indefatigable 20 Apl. During the day, Indefatigable's aircraft attacked targets in northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido. data is focussed on tracking down crew lists, but we provide other resources, such as indexed images of the Mercantile Navy List, as well as a comprehensive set of links to other sites. Royal Navy 309255 Stoker 1st class HMS Indefatigable More about Ernest Jenkinson William Joseph Pearn Born 1881 Died 1916 Royal Navy 345666 More about William Joseph Pearn Ernest Darwin Born 1879 Died 1916 Royal Navy 345260 Electrical Artificer 1st Class HMS Indefatigable More about Ernest Darwin William Ahern Born 1882 Died 1916 Indefatigable Unlike the Illustrious-class ships, the roofs of the gun turrets were flat and flush with the flight deck. The ship exercised with the Home Fleet and made a port visit to Casablanca, Morocco, before visiting Gibraltar. [24] On 7 January, Indefatigable and Amazon captured the Emanuel. [35] The two separated, with the prize heading directly for Bayonne. [51], The carrier arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 16 March 1946. More direct hits were aimed at her forecastle which ultimately ignited some magazine stores. [23] Her consort, the schooner Vengeur, was of the same strength, and Pellew yet hoped to catch her, too. Leading Seaman Bullwas, and Spike Sheldon has identified that, of the Stokers called Smith, one was from Bath, Harold William Smith, so that we have concluded this was him. It started from trying to trace the sea-going career of Pete's great-grandfather, who ran away to sea in the 1860s. . transcribed are only a small sample of the huge volume of crew documents scattered across many archives. By all accounts, James Cook's HMS Endeavour sojourn in Tahiti was a pivotal moment in . [74] While there she captured two vessels, the Danish ship Neptunus on 24 March and the French ship Nymphe on 28 March. Transcribed 57,000 entries of foreign-going masters and mates from the records in BT 124 at TNA. The ship normally displaced 18,500 long tons (18,800 t) and 22,130 long tons (22,490 t) at deep load. She had left the Gironde the evening before on this, her second voyage, to India. She was the temporary flagship of the 2nd BCS during AprilMay 1916, while her half-sister HMASAustralia was under repair after colliding with Indefatigable's other half-sister New Zealand. Harold F. Guest, R.N.R. Five days later, the BPF attacked a different refinery and 820 Squadron again contributed 10 Avengers to the attack while 1770 Squadron added nine Fireflies. Eng.-Sub-Lieut. [12] The Royal Navy took the frigate into service as HMS Unite. document.write("This page was last modified on " + lastmod.getDate()+" " + monthlist[lastmod.getMonth()] +" " + lastmod.getFullYear()+""); Transcribed and checked nearly 1,000,000 (one million) entries from crew lists. [18], On 31 May 1916, the 2nd BCS consisted of New Zealand (flagship of Rear-Admiral William Pakenham) and Indefatigable. [39] En route to Sydney to prepare for operations in the Pacific, the BPF's carriers attacked oil refineries near Palembang, Sumatra, on 24 and 29 January (Operation Meridian). In this action, Amazon had four men wounded. Provided the facilities for the transcription of a further 750,000 entries by The National Archives (TNA) and the National Maritime Museum (NMM). Charles F. Sowerby 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 Two days later Captain Robert Sherbrooke, VC, relieved Grindle and Indefatigable began her sea trials on 28 June. Indefatigable arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, on 10 December and Vian transferred his flag to Indomitable.[38]. Gunner He commanded her until early 1799. This had no short-term impact on their activities as they sailed for the Western Mediterranean on their annual winter cruise. [21] She was launched on 8 December 1942 by Victoria of Hesse, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. The ship was laid down on 10th November that year and launched on 26th March 1940 as the 3rd RN Warship to carry the name. The action earned her crew another clasp to the Naval General Service Medal: "Basque Roads 1809". [41] Damage to the ship was minimal and the flight deck was back in operation thirty minutes later. [15] By August 1945, Indefatigable had 10 single Bofors guns, plus 14 twin and 12 single Oerlikon mounts. Her next voyage involved transporting a much smaller number of men to Malta and Colombo; only 47 officers and 67 ratings, most of whom left the ship at Malta. [56], Indefatigable had no casualties. [49], On 3 July Indefatigable recaptured the brig Cultivator, from the French. Victorious, one of the Illustrious-class ships upon which Indefatigable's design was based, also carried Type 279 and Type 281B early-warning radars. Both British vessels arrived at Venus at almost the same time (7pm). We'll do our best to advise. [13] Indefatigable had no casualties. She had a crew of 737 officers and ratings. By April 1946 these had been reduced to 11 Bofors guns, 6 twin and 7 single Oerlikon guns. [9], On 20 March 1796, Indefatigable and her squadron chased three French corvettes, of which the Volage of 26 guns ran ashore under a battery at the mouth of the Loire. On the morning of 20 April 1796, Indefatigable sighted the French 44-gun frigate Virginie off the Lizard. The ship underwent a brief refit at her builder's yard between 28 September and 8 November. Records of HMS Indefatigable from other sources. Most of the crew survived and. She contributed 10 of her Avengers and all of her Fireflies to the first attack, which destroyed most of the oil storage tanks and cut the refinery's output by half for three months. Vengeur was sailing in company with three letters of marque a ship, a brig and a schooner that were bound for Guadeloupe. [2] Robert Roxburgh. Share Dates of service, name changes, previous and next incarnations, dimensions, armament, commanders, officers and crewmen, actions, battles, sources British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indefatigable' (1784) Three Decks' Forum CLIP databases provide a range of indexes and finding aids to help your research. Richard F. Durlacher. -. He then drove Canada on shore where he hoped that her cargo at least would be destroyed. We explain what indexes are available and how to use them. [60] A change in the wind permitted all but one corvette to escape. Captain Quintin Graham was appointed to command the ship in August 1943. We do this by making available information about the records, and providing data drawn from crew lists and agreements. [16], Details of the Implacable-class ships' radar suite are not readily available. She was armed with eight guns and had a crew of 50 men. Please note that we do not do privately commissioned research, not at any price - we'd like you to have the fun. Indefatigable, Sirius and Boadicea shared with Bordelais by agreement, and Shannon further shared with Bordelais.[51]. [4], The Indefatigable class had a main armament of eight breech-loading BL 12-inch (305mm) Mark X guns mounted in four hydraulically powered twin-gun turrets. The ship's Seafires lacked the range to reach the targets so they were retained on combat air patrols (CAP) over the fleet for both attacks. Terms and Conditions | [32][Note 2] Tirpitz was lightly damaged by two hits during this attack, one a 500-pound (230kg) bomb and the other a 1,600-pound (730kg) armour-piercing bomb. 1911 Indefatigable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1916, "Charles FitzGerald Sowerby - the Dreadnought Project", "John Bowyer WW1 memorial and Life Story", "Statutory Instrument 2006 No. [3], In October 1809 Indefatigable was under Captain Henry E. R. Media in category "HMS Indefatigable (R10)" The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total. She was launched on 28 October 1909 and was completed on 24 February 1911. [13] She had 14 or 15 men killed, 17 badly wounded, and 10 slightly. She returned to Sydney for the holidays and visited Melbourne on 22 January 1946 before departing for home nine days later. She departed three days later for Manus en route to Sydney. To remain within the 23,000 long tons (23,000t) limit allowed by the Second London Naval Treaty, these improvements could only be made by reducing armour protection. All of her 4-inch guns were enclosed in casemates and given gun shields during a refit in November 1915 to better protect the gun crews from weather and enemy action, although two aft guns were removed at the same time. Only three of the crew of 1,019 survived. The Germans opened fire first at 15:48, followed by the British. [38], At dawn on 31 December 1798, Indefatigable captured the Minerve, five leagues off Ushant. Its armament was made up of: 4 x 2 - BL 12-inch; Mk X guns; 16 x 1 - BL 4-inch; Mk VII guns; 2 x 1 submerged 17.72-inch torpedo tubes. Captain John Grindle was appointed to command on 24 March 1950 and the ship was recommissioned on 28 May. The other two were wing turrets mounted amidships and staggered diagonally: 'P' was forward and to port of the centre funnel, while 'Q' was situated starboard and aft. var monthlist= ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']; Official History; " Naval Operations" by Sir Julian S. Corbett. The ship welcomed home Queen Elizabeth II and her husband four days later as they returned from their tour of the Commonwealth. Become a Member R.M. Richard B. Croft. Indefatigable was sold for scrap in September 1956 and subsequently broken up at Faslane.[55]. She was scuttled at Scapa Flow 21st June 1919. She also had four feet of water in her hold from shot holes. [24] Upon her return, Indefatigable embarked the Supermarine Seafire fighters of 887 Squadron and the Barracudas of 820 Squadron, completing No. HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. The magazines for the 4.5-inch guns lay outside the armoured citadel and were protected by 2 to 3-inch roofs, 4.5-inch sides and 1.5 to 2-inch ends.[20]. [citation needed], In 1794, she was razed; her upper gun deck was cut away to convert her into a large and heavily armed frigate. Surgeon Then Indefatigable captured Mede, and Lively captured Clara. Her initial role during the Second World War was to accompany a convoy to Capetown from December 1940 to January 1941. She was armed with 18 guns, had a crew of 86 men, and was under the command of Monsieur Louis Francois Hector Fourr, lieutenant de vaisseau. The British took her into service as Danae. List of Officers and Men killed, HMS Indefatigable 31st May 1916,Engineer Lieutenant Commander Patrick J. Her magazines exploded at 16:03 after more hits, one on the forecastle and another on the forward turret. Set up this site which is widely used as a single resource for researchers into maritime records. At the moment it contains a little over 3,600 people. 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. Bath men on the Indefatigable Lieutenant Francis was no longer in the crew at Jutland. A destroyer of the Royal Navy, HMS Badger was able to rescue just six of the 1021 crew members, after surviving 20 minutes in the freezing waters of the North Sea. His most famous humanitarian endeavour while captain of HMS Indefatigable was the rescue of hundreds of souls from the wreck of the Dutton East Indiaman, which ran aground beneath the citadel in Plymouth in January 1796. She reached the coast of Japan on 20 July and her aircraft began attacking targets near Osaka and in the Inland Sea four days later. [76], Four months later, on 6 May Indefatigable captured two French chasse marees, Camilla and Bonne Rencontre; Scipion and Piercer were in company. The fore part of the ship simply drifted on under its own momentum, still under fire, until it foundered. Indefatigable alone lost two killed and 11 wounded. [27] The wreck was identified in 2001, when it was found to have been heavily salvaged sometime in the past. Indefatigable was sold for scrap the following year. [39] Aspahalon, a Newcastle vessel, had been sailing from Halifax to London with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Contributor: C. Peter Chen ww2dbase The HMS Indomitable was the fourth Illustrious-class carrier, though she differed from the earlier three carriers of the class after a modification to have a complement of 45 aircraft instead of 33. And someone show me a table which maybe come from the navalaction website. [a] Blonde had 16 guns and a crew of 95 men. This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 15:24. As it was, the money and ships were declared to be "Droits of Admiralty" on the grounds that war had not been declared. If you have hit a snag, please She carried enough fuel oil to give her a range of 6,900 nautical miles (12,800km; 7,900mi) at 20 knots (37km/h; 23mph). 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. [5] By that time, she was already anachronistic for the role of a ship of the line as the French only built the more powerful 74-gun ships,[6] and was never commissioned in that role. [33] Duke of York also shared in the capture. [46] Her air group flew aboard on 7 July (1772 Squadron and its Fireflies replacing 1770 Squadron) when she sailed for Manus. [43], On 12 and 13 April, the BPF switched targets to airfields in northern Formosa. [78] On 20 October Indefatigable re-captured the Portuguese brig Intrigua. Five days later the visitors were stranded aboard ship overnight when a storm came up and forced Indefatigable to put to sea. The first airstrike was tasked to attack Kisarazu Air Field with four Fireflies and six Avengers, escorted by eight Seafires, but was forced to divert to its secondary target because of bad weather. [44], The BPF arrived back at Sydney on 5 June and sailed for Manus three weeks later. She took some 27 prizes, alone or in company, and the Admiralty authorised the issue of four clasps to the Naval General Service Medal in 1847 to any surviving members of her crews from the respective actions. Sub-Lieut. The design originated as an improved version of the Illustrious-class aircraft carriers and was intended to be 2 knots (3.7km/h; 2.3mph) faster and carry an additional dozen aircraft over the 30-knot (56km/h; 35mph) speed and 36 aircraft of the earlier ships. Naval Instructor Arthur Beales. [7] The sides of the hangars were either 1.5 inches (38mm) or 2 inches (51mm). [30] For Operation Goodwood, a series of attacks on Tirpitz, the Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters of 1840 Squadron replaced the Barracudas of 826 Squadron. When he died his son Ian discovered a photo album with pictures of when the ship was in Australia. Brown, David K., p. 51, fn. 15253, Brown 2009, pp. She was broken up at Sheerness in August 1816.[5]. [19][20], In September 1796, Indefatigable, Phoebe, Rvolutionnaire, and Amazon captured five Spanish ships. [15], The Germans sortied from Messina on 6 August and headed east, toward Constantinople, trailed by Gloucester. Statistics compiled by the BPF staff showed that 61 Seafires were lost or damaged beyond repair during both phases of the operation due to deck-landing accidents. in detail the crews of a hundred thousand ships. John E. Gifford. 9. Action, H.M.S. SS Seydlitz after Battle of . Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. Read; View source; View history; More. [50] Eleven days later, Indefatigable and Sirius captured the French ship Favori. Captain Ralph Fisher assumed command on 30 January 1953 and took her to sea three weeks later for exercises with the Home Fleet and her annual visit to Gibraltar. Milne, still expecting Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchon to turn west, kept the battlecruisers at Malta until shortly after midnight on 8 August when he set sail at a leisurely 12 knots (22km/h; 14mph) for Cape Matapan, where Goeben had been spotted eight hours earlier. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Indefatigable's outline design was prepared in March 1908, and the final design, slightly larger than Invincible with a revised protection arrangement and additional length amidships to allow her two middle turrets to fire on either broadside, was approved in November 1908. While Indefatigable was still conducting builder's trials,[24] a de Havilland Mosquito landed aboard on 25 March, piloted by Lieutenant Eric Brown (this is often cited as the first landing by a twin-engined aeroplane on an aircraft carrier,[25] but in fact a Potez 565 had landed on and taken off from the French carrier Barn in 1936). Joseph Crabb. [Note 1] The ends of the hangars were protected by 2-inch bulkheads[7] and the armour of the hangar deck ranged from 1.5 to 2.5 inches (38 to 64mm) in thickness. Amazon also ran onto the shore; still, almost her entire crew survived both the battle and the grounding and were captured. [58][e], In October 1805 Indefatigable, now under Captain John Tremayne Rodd (1809), was part of the blockade of Brest. When the First World War began, Indefatigable was serving with the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully pursued the battlecruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau of the German Imperial Navy as they fled toward the Ottoman Empire. Claude de N. Lucas. [60] The 21 missing men were in a boat from Revenge; a later report suggested that most, if not all, had been taken prisoner. From her, he learned that there were two privateers around Corunna, one of which had captured a brig from Lisbon with a cargo of bale goods two days earlier. [6], The Indefatigables were protected by a waterline 46-inch (102152mm) armoured belt that extended between and covered the end barbettes. [5], On 11 January 1810, Indefatigable captured Mouche 26 near Cap de Peas. HMS Gambia: Crew List Crew List This table will contain as many of the crew members of HMS and HMNZS Gambia as I can find. [14], The ship was also fitted with 55 Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon in 17 single and 19 twin-gun mounts. Boatswain H.M.S. The armoured flight deck absorbed the blast and her Seafires, Fire. The two halves of the wreck are separated on the seabed by a linear distance of over 500m (1,600ft). The British were able to decode the German radio messages and left their bases before the Germans put to sea. She sank on 31st May 1916, during the Battle of Jutland, the largest Naval Battle of the war. Displacement (loaded) 22,110t. The next day her aircraft attacked targets in the vicinity of Tokyo. Photo source: From the Historic Collections of the Institute of Naval Medicine by kind permission of the Commanding Officer, Law, Cecil Robert De Vaux - Sub Lieutenant, Murray-Browne, Granville - Lieutenant-Commander, Randle, Rowland Lickbarrow - Engine Room Artificer 1st Class, Tanner, Charles Philip - Engineer Sub Lieutenant, Wilson, John Skinner - Lieutenant-Commander. Royal Naval Reserve [26] Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division [24] Royal Irish Rifles [20] HMS Erin [9] HMS INDOMITABLE [8] Royal Engineers [8] HMS Vanguard [7] HMS INFLEXIBLE [6] HMS LION [6] HMS Monmouth [6] HMS THUNDERER [6] HMS Ajax [5] HMS BELLEROPHON [5] HMS COLLINGWOOD [5] HMS DEFENCE [5] HMS Impregnable [5] Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [5] HMS INDEFATIGABLE [4] HMS INVINCIBLE . Address Empress Road, Kensington, Liverpool.L7. [22] The next day, Pellew and Indefatigable captured the privateer schooner Ariel of Boston off Corunna. En route they were attacked by a dozen Zeros in the last British air combat of the war. Jutland Bank, 31st May 1916. Duncan B With our small band of volunteers from around the world, and with the help of many archivists, we have: We have now completed all the transcription projects that we manage. Ranger was armed with 14 guns and carried a crew of 70 men. [45], Then on 6 January 1800 Indefatigable shared with Defiance, Unicorn, Sirius and Stag in the capture of the French brig Ursule. Two minutes later, he ordered a course change to east south-east to position himself astride the German's line of retreat and called his ships' crews to action stations. [5] One boat each from the ships of the line of the squadron, plus three boats each from Indefatigable and Iris entered the Gironde on 15 July 1806 to attack two French corvettes and a convoy. Thus, Pellew reported that, on 30 April 1797, "we" captured the French brigantine privateer Basque. Midshipman She had only 19 officers and men wounded, with most of those not being serious. The ships were provided with 94,650 imperial gallons (430,300l; 113,670USgal) of aviation gasoline. learn something along the way. 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 underwater defence system was a layered system of liquid- and air-filled compartments as used in the Illustrious class. 8384; McCart, pp. 1923. [29] She had been the post-ship Hyaena until her capture in 1793; the Royal Navy took her back into service under her original name. We are continuing to add to 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. Engineer Commander She sank immediately, with the loss of all but two of her crew. Date: 1863 - 1913 Arrangement: The documents are stored by year in numerical sequence of registered number, as they were received, and have not been rearranged under the names of individual ships. 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. The Implacable class were ordered under the 1938 Naval Programme by the Chamberlain government as part of the general rearmament begun in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. [5] They mounted two 17.72-inch (450mm) submerged torpedo tubes, one on each side aft of 'X' barbette, and twelve torpedoes were carried. While Indefatigable was visiting the latter city, she was opened to the public, and the Governor-General of South Africa toured the ship. 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