Date of Arrival

Place

Date of Departure

Orders, Remarks etc

14.1.39

Portland

24.3.39

24.3.39

Portsmouth

2.5.39

28/3 Taken in hand for refit, completes 26/4, ready for service 29/4

2.5.39

Portland

1.6.39

1.6.39

Brixham

2.6.39

Sailed for Liverpool to search for sunken submarine Thetis.

2.6.39

From Capt (D)6: Arrival at position of Thetis. In search for HMS Thetis which has failed to surface.

4.6.39

From SO 1^st MSF: On departure of 6^th Destroyer Flotilla, SO 1^st MSF in HEBE and Seagull retained in charge of salvage operations.

5.6.39

Liverpool

2.8.39

31/7 Bramble is to sail for Liverpool on completion of leave to relieve HEBE. SO 1^st MSF will transfer from HEBE to Bramble at Liverpool. HEBE will proceed to Portsmouth to give leave.

1/8 SO 1^st MSF transferred from HEBE to Bramble. 

Following the accident in which the submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay a memorial service was held at sea aboard HMS HEBE for the families and colleagues of those lost. HEBE was joined at the site of the disaster by a congregation of salvage vessels, lifeboats and various other craft all paying their respects. The German Chancellor, Herr Adolf Hitler sent a telegram conveying his own and the German nation’s sympathy over the disaster.

Relatives And Wreaths for Thetis Service At Sea

HMS Hebe with relatives of those lost on the Thetis leaving the Liverpool Landing Stage for the memorial service at the scene of the disaster.

Some of the wreaths - there were 400 there - taken aboard the Hebe as she left for today's Memorial Service.

Photo Source: http://www.cyberheritage.org/thetisyates/

Memorial Service on HMS Hebe for HM Submarine Thetis (taken from HMS Seagull)

Photo source: http://www.cyberheritage.org/thetisyates/hmshebe2.html

The 7th June was the occasion of the Memorial service at Sea. The cortège was led from the Mersey, over the 38 miles that Thetis had covered on her last voyage, by the minesweeper HMS Hebe. Most of the relatives and those intimately concerned with the lost submarine were standing on the open deck. before she reached the last resting place of Thetis, Hebe had been joined by a congregation of salvage vessels, lifeboats and miscellaneous light craft.

Source: CET Warren & J Benson - The Admiralty Regrets

Leading Stoker Walter Arnold, one of the four survivors from Thetis, leans on the stern rail as wreaths are dropped from the stern of Hebe (photo taken from Seagull)

Photo Source: http://www.cyberheritage.org/thetisyates/

4.8.39

Portland

4.8.39

4.8.39

Portsmouth

23.8.39

14/8 Taken in hand for minor repairs Completes 2/9. At 24 hours notice.

22/8 Lt.Cdr.J.B.G.Temple joined the ship

25.8.39

Scapa

16.9.39

17.9.39

Scapa

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29.9.39

Scapa

1.10.39

2.10.39

Port A

11.10.39

12.10.39

Scapa

22.10.39

22.10.39

Port A

22/23.10.39

24.10.39

Scapa

27.10.39

29.10.39

Clyde

3.11.39

4.11.39

Scapa

5/6.11.39

6.11.39

Scapa

6.11.39

7.11.39

Scapa

14.11.39

16.11.39

Scapa

21.11.39

22.11.39

Scapa

23.11.39

22/11 From C in C Home Fleet: Owing to necessity of sweeping Clyde minefields request HEBE may be sailed for Clyde as soon as convenient

24.11.39

Clyde

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