|
Date |
At |
|
|
1/10/39 |
Scapa |
Employed hands
cleaning ship. Make general payment. |
|
2/10/39 |
Scapa |
Employed boys
scrubbing upper deck. Training classes. Gunnery drills.
|
|
3/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
Training classes. Gunnery drills. Secured ship for sea. |
|
4/10/39 |
Scapa |
Passed through Switha
Gate. Sweeps with Speedy.
09.30 Closed up
action stations.
09.50 Secured from
action stations
Working sweeps. |
|
5/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
Training classes. Gunnery drills.
Slipped and proceeded
to Invergordon |
|
6/10/39 |
At sea |
09.05 Rejoined MS
Over
10.10 Close and
examine fishing ships
12.00 Take station on
1st Minesweeping Flotilla
15.45 Secure
alongside HMS Speedy in Cromarty Firth |
|
7/10/39 |
Invergordon |
07.05 Slipped and
proceeded in company with HMS Bramble.
Working Sweeps. To
Scapa Flow. |
|
8/10/39 |
Scapa |
Working sweeps |
|
9/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
09.30 Action
stations.
10.00 Hands fell out
action stations. |
|
10/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
Training. |
|
11/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
Training. Hands to physical exercise. |
|
12/10/39 |
Scapa |
Employed white watch
embarking stores and fresh produce.
RFA Petronel
alongside. |
|
13/10/39 |
Scapa |
Securing for sea.
Cleaning ship. Training. |
|
|
|
[Note: On night of 13th, HMS Royal Oak sunk by U Boat
in Scapa Flow, 810 hands lost] |
|
14/10/39 |
Scapa |
06.53 Slipped and proceeded through Switha Gate. Sweeping
approaches to
09.10 Entered harbour and awaited orders.
10.15 Passed through Switha Boom.
10.50 Sweeping inside Scapa with Hazard.
14.50 Parted sweep wire. Dropped Dan buoy.
15.00 Passed sweep wire to Hazard.
15.50 Parted sweep wire. Let go Dan buoy. Hove to.
17.08 Proceeded course and speed to close down Iron Duke
18.45 At anchor. |
|
15/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship.
Cleaning guns. Secure for sea.
Carry out sweeps in
Scapa Flow |
|
16/10/39 |
Scapa |
Secured for sea.
Passed through Hoxa Boom with HMS Hazard. Working sweeps
15.15 Half mast
colours.
Rehoisted colours |
|
17/10/39 |
Scapa |
[Note HMS Iron Duke
holed by near miss aircraft bombs and beached]
08.35 Weighed and
secured to RFA Mikal. Commenced oiling.
10.00 Action
stations. Red Warning.
10.15 Engaged Enemy
aircraft.
10.35 Claim to have
shot down one aircraft.
11.00 Slipped from
oiler and proceeded to stand by Iron Duke. Lowered lifeboats.
11.35 Hoisted both
lifeboats.
12.00 Secured to No 9
Buoy Long Hope.
12.50 Action Stations
for Red Warning.
13.40 High bombing
attacks made by enemy aircraft. Engaged aircraft.
14.30 Secured from
Action Stations.
16.10 Action
Stations.
16.20 Secured from
Action Stations. |
|
18/10/39 |
Scapa |
Cleaning ship and
reeling up wires.
10.30 Action Stations
for Red Warning
10.55 Opened fire on
enemy aircraft
11.50 Secured from
Action Stations
14.12 Action Stations
for Red Warning
14.50 Fell out from
Action Stations
16.33 Weighed and
proceeded to lay off HMS Iron Duke
18.30 Weighed and
proceeded to lay off Voltaire |
|
19/10/39 |
Scapa |
09.00 Embarked
officers for passage [from Voltaire]
Admiral Sir Reginald
Plunket Ernle Drax KCB DSO
Vice Admiral R H T
Raikes CB, CVO DSO
Captain G C Muirhead-Gould
DSC RN
Commander R F Nichols
Proceeded and secured
alongside outer jetty, Thurso Bay, Scrabster.
Shifted billet and
secured alongside Scrabster jetty |
|
20/10/39 |
Scrabster |
Clean ship
14.40 Officers of
Investigation Committee come on board
14.45 Ship proceeded
to Scapa
Passed through Hoxa
Boom
16.20 Inspection of
blocked channels and booms
18.10 Hove to off
Voltaire. Disembarked officers.
19.50 Proceed to
anchor alongside HMS Bramble |
|
21/10/39 |
Scapa |
At sea sweeping
10.30 Action stations
red warning
11.12 Secured from
Action Stations.
18.05 Returned to
harbour and anchored alongside HMS Bramble |
|
22/10/39 |
Scapa |
00.10 Secured stores
lighter alongside, embarked stores.
01.25 Slipped and
proceeded to Loch Ewe
15.00 At anchor Loch
Ewe |
|
23/10/39 |
Loch Ewe |
08.30 Secured drifter
Lunar Bow alongside, disembarked stores
09.30 Cast off
drifter Lunar Bow
10.30 Secured drifter
Lunar Bow alongside, disembarked stores.
12.00 Cast off
drifter Lunar Bow
13.30 RFA Cumyll
alongside |
|
24/10/39 |
Loch Ewe |
Clean ship, secure
for sea, proceed Scapa. |
|
25/10/39 |
Scapa |
Proceed through
Switha Gate.
07.30 Course and
speed for U Boat search and patrol
10.00 Close ‘British
Prudence’ tanker and escort her
13.00 Rejoin HMS
Bramble, sweeping
18.00 Anchor Kirkwall |
|
26/10/39 |
Kirkwall |
Employ hands cleaning
and making wire netting |
|
27/10/39 |
Kirkwall |
07.00 Proceed in
station astern Bramble to Scapa
12.45 Proceed to sea
14.25 Commenced
zig-zagging |
|
28/10/39 |
At sea |
Proceeding to
Greenock
12.52 Out sweeps
19.00 Enter Clyde
boom |
|
29/10/39 |
Greenock |
Sweeping |
|
30/10/39 |
Greenock |
Cleaning ship and
embarking stores |
|
31/10/39 |
Greenock |
Out sweeps – northern
channel
Proceed to Lamlash |
