70.00 + 2.75 Postage. Each turret was also fitted with a 15-foot rangefinder. Initially, Warspite was based in Ceylon, forming a fast group with the aircraft carriers Formidable and Indomitable, four cruisers and six destroyers. HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth class battleship that served in both world wars, taking part in the battle of Jutland in 1916 and the battle of Matapan in 1941. [18] This action gained her the admiration of Warrior's surviving crew, who believed that Warspite's movement had been intentional. H.St.L. Within each group were bundles of documents. VALIANT. Denomination: 03 - H.M.S. Cmmd.Boatswain. This record is held by Walsall Archives See contact details Have you found an error with this catalogue description? The shells landed harmlessly at a gunnery range where a platoon of the Green Howards was exercising. [14] On 31 May, Warspite was deployed with the squadron to fight in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval encounter between Britain and Germany during the war. In mid-August, she set out to bombard Bardia and on 6 November she sailed from Alexandria to provide cover for the Battle of Taranto, a torpedo-bomber attack on ships in Taranto harbour. This required maximum offensive power and a speed several knots faster than any other battleship to allow them to defeat any type of ship. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. Feb. 9, 2011. HMS Warspite possibly at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington repairing battle damage in Aug. or Sept. 1941. Division One and Two rendezvoused in the Gulf of Sirte on 9 July and covered the assembling convoys. HTML tags are not allowed. When the contract with the salvage firm expired, they withdrew their machinery and equipment, effectively meaning The Wolverhampton Metal Company Ltd had to start from scratch, building up a salvage crew and acquiring the necessary equipment. The time is 9 PM approx. George Douglas Blake HMS Warspite, Cmmd.Boatswain. Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. She was damaged by German aircraft during the Battle of Crete in mid-1941 and required six months of repairs in the United States. Admiral Cunningham's Mediterranean Fleet, consisted of battleship HMS Warspite, battlesip HMS Valiant, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, and 7 destroyers departed Alexandria, Egypt, to meet the Excess convoy. [57] As a result of this attack, Warspite and Valiant were able to bombard the Italian supply base in the Adriatic port of Vlor in mid-December. Thank you. When she left the shipyard on the Pacific coast, it was decided that she would join the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean to counter the new enemy power, Japan. Launched in 1913, the battleship HMS Warspite saw extensive service during both world wars. [42] She undertook another cruise of the western Mediterranean in the spring of 1939. [96], During her service career, Warspite had lived up to her motto, enduring shellfire, bombing, ramming, mines and a guided missile. Other than that battle, and the inconclusive Action of 19 August, her service during the war generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. [10] Warspite joined the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet following a number of acceptance trials,[11] including gunnery trials, which saw Churchill present when she fired her 15-inch (381mm) guns. ON 10 Sep, she was among the British ships escorting the surrendering ships of the Italian Navy to Malta. She was diverted northwards in pursuit of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau which had sunk the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi north of the Faroe Islands, but failed to make contact. Her final task was to support an Anglo-Canadian operation to open up the port of Antwerp, which had been captured in September, by clearing the Scheldt Estuary of German strongholds and gun emplacements. The goal of this [34], Additionally, her superstructure was radically altered, allowing two cranes and an aircraft hangar to be fitted. [104][105] Her nameplate was held by the pub, The Wink, in Lamorna, Cornwall[106] but has since been sold at auction. The depth charge and A/S bombs exploded close to Warspite. She provided gunfire support during the Sicily invasion in Jul 1943, and on 8 and 9 Sep 1943 bombarded German positions while fending off air attack during the Allied landing at Salerno. Mr Frank Wilson undertook this task with the help of Messrs Neil Macdonald and Neil Macquarrie as salvage engineers and Mr Duncan Nicholson [see file 5, (N)] as engineer in charge of plant. Original framed ww2 picture - HMS Warspite February 1944. The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944, despite not being fully repaired. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. [32] In 1930, Warspite rejoined the Atlantic Fleet. In company with the monitor Erebus, she carried out a preparatory bombardment of targets around Le Havre prior to Operation Astonia on 10 September, leading to the capture of the town two days later. On March 27, 1941, it took part in the battle of Cape Matapan and engaged several Italian buildings which were severely hit and destroyed. When the Second World War broke out, it was deployed in April 1940 as part of the Norwegian campaign and took part in numerous coastal batteries as well as German warships. [51] The Second Naval Battle of Narvik was considered a success. Cunningham hoped to draw the Regia Marina into battle by sailing towards the "toe" of Italy to cut them off from their base at Taranto. Us that the great assault was at last to take place and . Memorial to the Warspite at Marazion, Cornwall. Based at Chatham docks where he was acting Boatswain from 1928. On 16 Sep, she was attacked by a squadron of German aircraft and struck by three FX-1400 guided bombs. Class: Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, Armament (1944): 8x 381 mm guns, 10x 152 mm guns, 4x 102 mm guns, 32x 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, 16x 20 mm guns, 16x 12,7 mm machine guns, 4x 533 mm torpedo tubes, Displacement: 33,410 tons [24] Although she had been extensively damaged, Warspite could still raise steam and was ordered back to Rosyth during the evening of 31 May by Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas, commander of the 5th Battle Squadron. Add a Name to this List Twelve of the fourteen BL 6-inch (152mm) Mk XII guns were mounted in casemates along the broadside of the vessel amidships; the remaining pair were mounted on the forecastle deck near the aft funnel and were protected by gun shields. [83] Although the Italians had surrendered, the Germans had anticipated this and moved forces into position to block the Allied landings. During the day, additional Ju 52 aircraft brought two more battalions of troops to Maleme. Stanley Braithwaite HMS Warspite, L.Sea. Australian and New Zealand troops were pulled back from Maleme to Suda Bay to protect the main supply point while regrouping for another counterattack. [41] For the remainder of the year, she cruised the Aegean, Adriatic and Mediterranean seas, leading an intensive series of fleet exercises in August due to rising international tension. American tugs towed her to Malta then to Gibraltar for emergency repairs, then she sailed on her own back to Rosyth for permanent repairs. Also off Norway, Warspite's Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber sunk German submarine U-64, making it the first U-boat sinking by aircraft in WW2. By Dec 1944, Royal Navy warship involvement in the Atlantic was reduced to very little, and she was decommissioned on 1 Feb 1945 before the European War had ended. [88], On 14 September, Force H was recalled to the UK to begin preparations for the invasion of France, but Warspite and Valiant were detached to provide support for Allied forces at Salerno. [63] Pola was also sunk once her crew had been taken off. Decommissioned in 1945, Warspite ran aground under tow to be scrapped in 1947 on rocks near Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and was eventually broken up nearby. Somerville's fleet was outnumbered and outclassed but he hoped to get close enough to launch a night-time torpedo bomber attack. Had posted this querie in my local Fife forum (within this website) and got help finding his file - great! She returned to active duty in 1937, once again as the flagship in the Mediterranean. [91] She reached Malta on 19 September and undertook emergency repairs before being towed to Gibraltar on 12 November. Meanwhile four destroyers from the 4th Destroyer Division, Mediterranean Fleet, the HMS Hotspur (Cdr. The Kriegsmarine had its back broken in this campaign as almost half its destroyer strength had been destroyed by the Royal Navy. [103] The stone was unveiled by Admiral Sir Charles Madden and prayers were read by a former crew member. Crew from HMS Valiant came in first, HMS Barham second and HMS Resolution third. Three days later, Warspite met and led elements of the Italian Fleet, including Vittorio Veneto and Italia, into internment at Malta. They signed an armistice on 3 September, which took effect on 8 September. My grandfather James Shackleton Illingworth served aboard HMS Warspite in around 1914-1918 and was stationed at Scapa Flow i believe. In August, it patrolled along the Channel and bombarded the cities of Brest, Le Havre and Walcheren. She was soon on the journey to Malta, escorted by the anti-aircraft cruiser Delhi and four destroyers, while being towed by United States Navy tugs. During the battle Warspite achieved one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history, hitting Giulio Cesare at a range of approximately 24km (26,000yd), the other being a shot from Scharnhorst which hit Glorious at approximately the same distance in June 1940. A list of the crew, with their Register Ticket numbers, to be filed for a foreign-going ship on sailing. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. [28], In 1919, Warspite joined the 2nd Battle Squadron, part of the newly formed Atlantic Fleet, and undertook regular spring cruises to the Mediterranean. Original framed ww2 picture - HMS Rodney May 1944. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites. About our The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. In 1939 he became Command Boatswain on HMS Pembroke and in 1940 joined HMS Warspite. Denomination: 03 H.M.S. The resolve of the Italian Government had already been wavering by the time of the Allies victory in North Africa; the invasion of Sicily and aerial attacks on mainland Italy encouraged negotiations. The Navy Lists - Warspite. Although the damage had been considerable, Warspite's casualties amounted to only nine killed and fourteen wounded.[90]. The World War II Database is founded and managed by 2. WARSPITE CREW PHOTOGRAPHS If you would like to add a photograph please email info @ jutlandcrewlists.org (remove spaces). Although there were proposals to retain her as a museum ship, the Admiralty approved Warspite's scrapping in July 1946 and she sailed from Spithead into Portsmouth to have her guns removed. [18] Captain Phillpotts decided to maintain course, in effect circling, rather than come to a halt and reverse. [59], In March 1941, to support the planned German invasion of the Balkans, Vice Admiral Angelo Iachino's Italian fleet, led by the battleship Vittorio Veneto, sailed to intercept Allied convoys between Egypt and Greece. Repaired throughout the First World War after various additional incidents, it was engaged in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean during the Interwar period. [28] Early in April 1918 she joined the Grand Fleet in a fruitless pursuit of the German High Seas Fleet which had been hunting for a convoy near Norway. At the end of WW1, she was among the ships of the Grand Fleet that received the surrendering German High Seas Fleet. 26 . HMS Warspite is the third planned Dreadnought -class ballistic missile submarine. 70.00 . It was hit three times by a German plane and accused of the loss of nine killed and fourteen wounded. Although Italian ships withdrew first, Italian aircraft forced the British ships back by 1700 hours. HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth -class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Copyright 2004-2023 Lava Development, LLC., all rights reserved, See all 8 photographs of Battleship Warspite, 24 boilers, 4 direct drive turbines, 4 shafts, 2 oil driven and 2 turbine driven dynamos, 1 reciprocating engine driven dynamo, 8,600nm at 12.5 knots, 3,900 nm at 21 knots, 4x2 381mm, 12x152mm, 4x2 102mm, 4x8 2-lb AA, 4x4 0.5cal machine guns, 4-11in belt, 4-6in bulkheads, 4.25-13in turrets, 4-10in barbettes, 3-11in conning tower, 6in torpedo conning tower, 1-3in deck. The Warspite was damaged during the Battle of Crete during a German air attack. Jutland Memorial. Albert Edward Harding HMS Warspite (d.22nd May 1941). [16], The 5th Battle Squadron then headed north, exchanging fire with both Hipper's battlecruiser force and the leading elements of Scheer's battleships, damaging Markgraf. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Ship Interest Groups. [30] After the process finished in 1926, Warspite assumed the role of flagship of the Commander-in-Chief and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet. Bad luck with collisions and other incidents kept her more so in the shipyards than in battles. [20] The rangefinders and the transmission station were non-functional and only "A" turret could fire, albeit under local control with 12 salvos falling short of their target. 28/09/44-01/05/46 HMS Pembroke/HMS Marlborough. Albert Edward Harding HMS Warspite (d.22nd May 1941) Albert Harding, Royal Navy, born 24th January 1901 in Wealdstone, Middlesex, took the King's shilling at about the age of 15 and served in the Royal Navy from that time, during WW1. After dark, British battleships HMS Barham, HMS Valiant, and HMS Warspite moved in within 3.5 kilometers of the Italian cruisers undetected, opening fire at 2330 hours on the unsuspecting Italians. Samuel Hopkins served with the Royal Navy aboard HMS Warspite in WW2. However, by August the battleship was finally beached off St Michaels Mount and after further salvage another attempt was made to refloat her in November. [10] After undergoing repairs for two months at Rosyth and Jarrow, she rejoined the Grand Fleet, this time as part of the new 5th Battle Squadron which had been created for Queen Elizabeth-class ships. At 1936 hours, HMS Formidable's aircraft returned, joined by land-based aircraft from Crete, Greece, putting cruiser Pola out of action, but failed to catch Vittorio Veneto as she had received temporary repairs and was already en route back to Taranto, Italy. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have any unwanted The Queen Elizabeth-class ships were designed to form a fast squadron for the fleet that was intended to operate against the leading ships of the opposing battleline. During Operation Neptune, it anchored off, In the aftermath of the Battle of Normandy, HMS Warspite supported allied land forces from 9 to 11 June, operating for the benefit of the Americans before cruising off. [58] On 10 January 1941, Warspite was lightly damaged by a bomb while operating with Force A during Operation Excess. . Nicknamed 'The Old Lady', the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship, served in both world wars and marked the climax of the race for naval supremacy between Britain and Germany. He died 2nd of August 1943 aged 23 years. 7.3 The distribution of the surviving lists. Warspite was launched on November 26, 1913, and entered service on March 8, 1915. Meanwhile, off Trondheim, Norwegian cruiser-minelayer Frya was damaged by German warships while defending the Agdenes fortress; German submarine U-34 scuttled Frya to prevent salvage. She was powered by two sets of Parsons steam turbines, each driving two shafts using steam from 24 Yarrow boilers. [86] Assigned to Division 2 with Valiant and Formidable, she returned to Alexandria on 5 July in preparation for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. Anxious to ensure that the Germans did not acquire an additional 200 warships, the Allies insisted that the Regia Marina must sail for Allied ports. Crew List With Additional Information. She underwent a short refit in Durban in April and returned to the UK in May 1943, having sailed approximately 160,000 miles since the war began. Sponsored. Warspite and a British destroyer during Second Battle of Narvik, 13 Apr 1940. She ran aground off Dunbar on 17 September 1915, which necessitated repairs until 20 November. Between 0810 and 0855 hours, battleships HMS Warspite, HMS Valiant, and HMS Barham, along with destroyers, monitors, and gunboats, bombarded Bardia with 244 15-inch shells, 270 6-inch shells, 250 4.5-inch shells, and many smaller caliber shells. The main armament could be controlled by 'B' turret as well. Warspite's fast group set sail to intercept on 4 April, detecting the Japanese attack on the cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire and later, a scouting aircraft from the cruiser Tone. When the Second World War broke out, it was deployed in April 1940 as part of the Norwegian campaign and took part in numerous coastal batteries as well as German warships. [43] In June 1939, Vice Admiral Andrew Cunningham replaced Dudley Pound and took Warspite to Istanbul for talks with the Turkish government. [27] He was replaced by Captain de Bartolome in December 1916. [65], The Battle of Cape Matapan had a paralysing effect on the Regia Marina, providing the Royal Navy with an opportunity to tighten its grip on the Mediterranean, as evidenced by the unequal Battle of the Tarigo Convoy near the Kerkennah Islands on 16 April. The ships had multiple armoured decks that ranged from 1 to 3 inches (25 to 76mm) in thickness. In 1934, she underwent a complete modernization, radically altering her superstructure and adding an aircraft hangar. RM 2BJY9BY - HMS Warspite twin screw armour clad cruiser Floated out of Dock at Chatham Yard 29th January 1884. This information will help us make improvements to the website. A storm in April 1947 sank it in Mount Bay and, despite multiple efforts to refloat it, its wreck remained there until 1950. [89] Overnight, the fleet came under intense air attack, but she was able to continue bombardment duties the next day. D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia. [46], In April 1940, Warspite had started her voyage back to the Mediterranean when the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway; she rejoined the Home Fleet on 10 April and proceeded towards Narvik. One of her boiler rooms and the X turret could not be repaired, remaining out of action for the remainder of her career. + 2.75 Postage. Meanwhile, at Crete, Greece, Australian and New Zealand troops counterattacked at Maleme at 0330 hours, but German 5. Warspite was detached to refuel at Malta on 12 July, the first visit by a British battleship since December 1940. Churchill was suitably impressed with their accuracy and power. from the vessel, which was at the time lying at Prussia Cove with a rock piercing her hull. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo used five carriers and four battleships in the Indian Ocean raid a naval sortie into the Indian Ocean in April, attacking Allied shipping and bases in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. All were sunk during the action. During Operation Neptune, it anchored off Sword Beach and on June 6, 1944, it bombed the Villerville and Mont Canisy batteries, consuming 300x 381 mm shells in forty-eight hours. Her crew numbered 1,025 officers and ratings in 1915 and 1,220 in 1920. Later refloating herself she went hard aground a few yards away in Prussia Cove. After repairs, she bombarded Brest, Le Havre, and Walcheren. At 1515 hours, 50 miles south of Italy, heavily escorted Italian convoy for Benghazi, Libya ran into an equally powerful British convoy for Malta. Whilst travelling across the North Sea the ship came under attack from a German U-boat. In Jun 1939, Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham came abroad as the new commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. The firm previously employed had used 27 four tool compressors, WM had the advantage of being able to use 2 jet compressors, loaned by the Ministry of Supply, and had expert advice from Rolls Royce Ltd. On May 12th 1952, The Wolverhampton Metal Company Ltd succeeded in lifting HMS Warspite and managed to move her inshore by a quarter of a mile. Warspite was launched on November 26, 1913, and entered service on March 8, 1915. British battleships HMS Barham, HMS Valiant, and HMS Warspite continued to shell the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan, Greece. Towing a ship of Warspite's dimensions proved difficult, and at one stage she broke all tow lines and drifted sideways through the Straits of Messina. Tous droits rservs, Index of Allied warships during Operation Neptune. Nicholson, RN) and HMS Hunter (Lt.Cdr. Seeing that they were under pressure, Cunningham took Warspite ahead to assist his cruisers. After arriving off Salerno on 15 September, Warspite bombarded an ammunition dump and other positions around Altavilla Silentina, demoralising the German forces and providing time for Allied reinforcements to arrive. This richly illustrated book chronologically describes the course of Operation Overlord through 357 specific events. She returned to the Mediterranean as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, then spent some time with the Atlantic Fleet. Apparently he was known as Geordie. The Captain spoke to the ships company telling. See 1000/1/3/3/1 and 1000/1/3/3/2/1 for photographs of salvaging of HMS Warspite. privacy policy. 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