Re: Crew Lists of HMS Hecla & Fury 1819-24, Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT United Kingdom. Kenneth Charles Collings (standing middle) and four unidentified crewmen seen on HMS Hecla. Barracks at her Home Port. Go to MaritimeQuest - HMS Hecla Message Board For a chronological history see: http://www.cwparish.demon.co.uk/wparish/hms-hecla.htm 2 weeks later. Based first at Hvalfjord, Iceland, it was there that she tended to the captured German submarine U-570 before the vessel was towed to the United Kingdom, where she was renamed HMS Graph and entered service with the Royal Navy. People missing from this listing? Originally torpedo depot ship and played important role in developing British torpedo forces she became a Destroyer Depot ship. I have seen that there was only one survior which seems a little strange as her complimnet was 75. //-->, By https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Hecla_(A133)&oldid=1138025038, 12,000nmi (22,000km; 14,000mi) at 11 knots (20km/h), This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 16:43. As a witness only one torpedo hit the Hecla a few minutes after 11 p.m. putting the generators out of action, as the power went off the ship. The remainder of May and June were spent in drydock, repairing extensive underwater damage. [3] The ship had a complement of 127 officers and other ranks. The National Archives. During one trial cruise in Bantry Bay in late 1883 the sea "made clean sweeps over her aft, and flooder her beyond the waist, besides breaking the skylights of the deck cabins. Bernie left the Navy in 1993, having . We will keep your details safe and will only ever send you relevant communications. Hecla shuddered and listed, a 21" port sub torpedo hit amidships (in the Navel reports 2 torpedoes, At 11 p.m. hit amidships. Notes on event HMS Lion. According to figures I have, there was a total of 83 souls on HMS Fortune when sunk 01/06/1916: 66 were killed and there were 17 survivors. PRIVATE Served from 1953 - 1956 Served in HMS Hecla Martin Jackson OM AW1 Served from 1987 - 1996 Served in HMS Hecla Norman Wood MEM1 Served from 1965 - 1973 Served in HMS Hecla Jack Mead PETTY OFFICER Served from 1985 - 2002 Served in HMS Hecla John Ohara LRO G Served from 1977 - 1985 Served in HMS Hecla Craig Hulton For quite some time I have been cataloguing the earliest LRF records for the port of Leith. Lloyd's Register Foundation is a Registered Charity (Reg. [8], Hecla participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1890 under the command of Captain Edwin J. P. Gallwey as part of a Reserve Fleet of the force representing the Royal Navy, headquartered in the Downs. 10 Local War Memorials var fontend = '' A fourth ship, HMS Herald, was completed in the early 1970s. Much to the frustration of the appointed astronomer, Edward Sabine, and the second in command, Lieutenant Parry, Ross cut his expedition short and returned to Britain. Naming the strait to the west after the Secretary of the Admiralty, John Barrow, it was here that they waited for a gap in the ice. HMS Hecla was the lead ship of the Hecla class, an oceangoing survey ship type in the Royal Navy. dailyinfo[4]=' Matrose Paul KURZKE Torpedoboot "G85" German Navy who died 04/03/1919 CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY United Kingdom ' If you have found out any more information regarding HMS Hecla I would be grateful if you could share it. beneath my father's name as Chief Engineer. 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. dailyinfo[6]=' Lieutenant Thomas McKenny HUGHES Twice Mentioned in Despatches 53rd Sqdn. HMS Hecla (Capt. It was with heavy mortar fire thatHeclaand her sister bomb ships,Beelzebub,Infernal, andFurysuccessfully blasted the Algerian coastal defences. The submarine fired a spread of four torpedoes at its target, though only one hit.