Admiralty Armed Trawler No. 134 hired as a Minesweeper in 1914. Hit mine and sank drowning one officer and nine naval ratings. – (LARN) Lost off St Alban’s Head. ADM.APV.1919 & SRN: Vol. 2, p28. Hit mine when she was sweeping with the trawler VERA GRACE. Ref. ADM.APV 1919 & SRN Vol. 2 p28. MINUTES … Read Article
Naval Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Particularly p108 to p110) (Also LARN) – Opposite the Passage House, Chesil Cove. (Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48 p10). Letter in Sh. Merc: 07/12/1795.
Used in Operation ‘Dynamo’, the Dunkirk evacuation fleet. Hit mine in the Swash Channel the wreck raised in June 1945 and dumped in Studland Bay with the PRINSES JULIANA and HMS SONA. All the naval crew were killed in the explosion. Ref. LCWLR: WW2 p83 & Notice to Mariner No. 35 of 1947.
HMS A3 was a member of the first British A-class of submarines, although slightly bigger than the lead boat, HMS A1. She was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness and was commissioned on 13 July 1904. Left Portsmouth Harbour at 09.30 with several other ‘A’ & ‘C’ class submarines for exercises off Bembridge, Isle of Wight. The … Read Article