Date of Arrival

Place

Date of Departure

Orders, Remarks etc

14.1.45

Harwich

15.1.45

Rejoined the 1^st MS flotilla which was by then within the Nore Command

19.1.45

Harwich

?

26.1.45

Harwich

2.2.45

6.2.45

U.S. freighter Henry B. Plant, in Antwerp-bound convoy TAM 71, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-245 at 51°19'24"N, 01°42'30"W just east of Ramsgate England. It was her maiden voyage. The torpedo struck the starboard side and the ship started flooding immediately, she sank within five minutes. Seven of the 28-man Armed Guard perish in the abandonment. British minesweeper HMS Hazard and HM Trawler Sir Lancelot rescue survivors.

10.2.45

Harwich

23.2.45

Source: ADM 199/153 (Extracts) 

Tuesday 27^th February 1945 

1. (a) HMS Harrier sailed at 0430 to lay datum dans.

(b) HMS Hazard sailed at 0445 with dan layers Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and Lord Ashfield.

(c) HM Ships Seagull, Halcyon and Speedwell sailed at 0515. Sweepers and danlayers to rendezvous with Harrier North West of Area. 

(2. – 5. Details of sweep) 

6. At 1000… a mine detonated in Hazard’s (rear ship) sweeps. The plume was about 30 feet… Inquiries were made of her and she was unable to determine when or where she had picked up this mine… 

7. During the second lap a mine detonated in Seagull’s sweep and parted it. There was no plume and from this fact and her position it was assumed to be one of our deep mines...  

(At 1334 the visibility, which had been good, closed down to half a mile and then became thick fog. Sweeping was abandoned as it was 4 hours passage to the anchorage for the danlayers and it was thought prudent to have them inside our patrols before dark.) 

Wednesday 28^th February 

Flotilla and danlayers ordered to return to Harwich by the C in C Nore. 

Date of Arrival

Place

Date of Departure

Orders, Remarks etc

28.2.45

Harwich

9.3.45

17.3.45

Harwich

24.3.45

30.3.45

Harwich

6.4.45

14.4.45

Harwich

23.4.45

Source: ADM 199/153 (Extracts)

From: The Commanding Officer, HMS Gleaner

Date: 27^th April 1945

To:   The Senior Officer, 1^st MSF, HMS Harrier 

0846 27^th April 1945. Seagull, Speedwell, Gleaner, Hazard, Halcyon.

Harrier was 6 ½ cables astern of Gleaner with SA Mk IV and Halcyon was operating explosive sweep. Standard hand grenade sweep every two minutes. Mine explosion one minute after explosion of hand grenades. Normal explosion about 150 ft high. 

 

From: The Commanding Officer, HMS Seagull

Date: 1^st May 1945

To:   The Senior Officer, 1^st MSF, HMS Harrier 

1148, 1^st May 1945. Seagull, Halcyon, Hazard 

Mine detonated. Plume 50 ft. 

Date of Arrival

Place

Date of Departure

Orders, Remarks etc

2.5.45

Harwich

8.5.45

8.5.45

Ostend

?

My father remembers what the ship was doing on VE day (8th May)- they were sent to escort a Trinity House lightship to coast of Holland (near the Hook of Holland he thinks)
Source: Paul Conyers son of PO Raymond Conyers

10.5.45

Harwich

12.5.45

26.5.45

Harwich

31.5.45

5.6.45

Harwich

24.6.45

HAZARD taken in hand at Ipswich for boiler cleaning and defects. Completes 17/6

4.7.45

Harwich

6.7.45

11.7.45

Harwich

17.7.45

26.7.45

In collision with HMS JASON

27.7.45

Harwich

3.8.45

14.8.45

Harwich

23.8.45

23.8.45

Sheerness

4.9.45

5.9.45

London

8.11.45

HAZARD dry docked by Green & Silley Weir R A Dock for collision repairs, completion 7/10 approx

?

Nore

10.11.45

11.11.45

Portsmouth

15.11.45

For Cherbourg