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Date of Arrival |
Place |
Date of Departure |
Orders, Remarks etc |
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12.1.41 |
Port ZA |
13.1.41 |
From RAML: Intend to sail
SCOTT for Denmark Straits 13/1. Scot will arrive Reykjavik for fuel
any time on or after 17/1. |
|
17.1.41 |
Iceland |
18.1.41 |
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|
22.1.41 |
Port ZA |
2.2.41 |
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|
7.2.41 |
Port ZA |
15.2.41 |
14/2 From RAML: It now
appears likely that SCOTT can be spared for all four weeks starting
about 8/3 or a little later. Propose she should proceed to Campbeltown
and carry on with the survey of Kilbrennan Sound during this time.
|
|
19.2.41 |
Aultbea |
? |
|
|
20.2.41 |
Port ZA |
28.2.41 |
27/2 SCOTT has been
ordered to proceed to Campbeltown arriving 1/3 to carry on with
investigation of shoals in Kilbrennan Sound. Request party may be
accommodated in Nimrod for one fortnight or three weeks. SCOTT will
sail for Port ZA 3/3. |
|
1.3.41 |
Campbeltown |
3.3.41 |
|
|
4.3.41 |
Port ZA |
9.3.41 |
10/3 From SCOTT: Am
anchored in dense fog N.E. Miggenaes(?) |
|
12.3.41 |
Port ZA |
16.3.41 |
|
|
21.3.41 |
Port ZA |
22.3.41 |
|
|
23.3.41 |
Ardrossan |
28.3.41 |
|
|
29.3.41 |
Port ZA |
30.3.41 |
For Loch Ewe |
|
30.3.41 |
Aultbea |
2.4.41 |
|
|
9.4.41 |
Port ZA |
22.4.41 |
22/4 From R A (M): Carry
out Hydrographic instruction 21/4 and then return to Port ZA. |
|
28.4.41 |
Port ZA |
4.5.41 |
For Reykjavik
1/5 From R A (M): SCOTT
will be due for boiler cleaning after operation SN9 but should sail
from Port ZA 12/5 to carry out further survey of water between
Vestfudir and the Icepack. Estimated 9 or 10 days would be required
including passage out and back. SCOTT wouldn’t be available for
further SN operations until about 24/5.
2/5 From R A (M): Propose
SCOTT should proceed Reykjavik for boiler clean on completion SN9A,
arriving 8/5. Both boilers require cleaning and secure berth will be
required. Survey of Denmark Straits could then begin 13/5.. |
|
One little-known exploit was that when BISMARCK broke out SCOTT was
send ahead of HOOD and PRINCE OF WALES to check on the position of the
edge of the pack ice off
Greenland. Fortunately for her she did not encounter the German
squadron.
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|
8.5.41 |
Iceland |
13.5.41 |
|
|
15.5.41 |
Iceland |
16.5.41 |
|
|
19.5.41 |
Port ZA |
21.5.41 |
|
|
23.5.41 |
Port ZA |
1.6.41 |
From R A (M): SCOTT is
now due for periodical refit and docking. Propose this is taken in
hand after the laying of SN67A and B presumably about the middle of
June. Refit might then be completed in time to carry out survey of
Denmark Strait towards end of July. |
|
1.6.41 |
Aultbea |
? |
9/6 From R A (M): Concur
refit of Scot should be deferred until November.
10/6 SCOTT can be taken
in hand at Pembroke Dock for coating bottom, anticipate will arrive by
15/6.
13/6 From R A (M):
Request if possible defects to SCOTT’s bottom plating may be taken in
hand while ship is being docked at Pembroke. SCOTT can be spared if
necessary until 29/6 |
|
13.6.41 |
Port ZA |
|
14/6 Work cannot be
undertaken during present docking
21/6 SCOTT dry docked in
Pembroke dock, anticipated date of undocking 28/6 |
|
? |
Milford Haven |
29.6.41 |
|
|
? |
Port ZA |
3.7.41 |
|
|
3.7.41 |
Aultbea |
7.7.41 |
|
|
10.7.41 |
Port ZA |
15.7.41 |
|
|
16.7.41 |
Aultbea |
? |
|
|
19.7.41 |
Port ZA |
21.7.41 |
20/7 Intend to sail SCOTT
to proceed to Loch Ewe on completion of operation SN31B (?) to
progress survey of Beaching sites |
|
22.7.41 |
Aultbea |
24.7.41 |
|
|
25.7.41 |
Belfast |
25.7.41 |
|
|
26.7.41 |
Lochalsh |
30.7.41 |
|
|
31.7.41 |
Port ZA |
1.8.41 |
|
|
1.8.41 |
Aultbea |
4.8.41 |
|
|
11.8.41 |
Port ZA |
11.8.41 |
|
|
? |
Glasgow (Ardrossan) |
28.8.41 |
13/8 Taken in hand Clyde
for boiler cleaning etc, completes 30/8 |
|
29.8.41 |
Port ZA |
30.8.41 |
|
|
1.9.41 |
Iceland |
2.9.41 |
|
|
? |
Iceland |
10.9.41 |
For Denmark Straits |
|
28.9.41 |
Iceland |
2.10.41 |
|
|
5.10.41 |
Port ZA |
6.10.41 |
|
|
7.10.41 |
Port ZA |
9.10.41 |
8/10 From Admiralty: HMS
SCOTT can be taken in hand forthwith by Messrs Thornycrofts,
Southampton. |
|
12.10.41 |
Portsmouth |
? |
Taken in hand by
Thorneycroft for refit. To complete 28/11 |
|
4.12.41 |
Ardrossan |
5.12.41 |
|
|
6.12.41 |
Port ZA |
7.12.41 |
|
|
11.12.41 |
Port ZA |
16.12.41 |
|
|
17.12.41 |
Scapa |
22.12.41 |
Halcyon, Harrier, SCOTT and Speedwell Left Scapa with
Arethusa, 6
destroyers, 2 corvettes, and two LSIs for the raid on Vaagso
(Operation Anklet, the landing of commandos on the Lofoten Islands);
entered Vestfjord on 26/12 and the Commando raid began. Force left
28/12 and arrived Scapa 1.1.42 |
Lofoten Islands
In December 1941 SCOTT
was a key participant in the second raid on the Lofoten Islands.
This was planned as a pair of operations, ANKLET and ARCHERY.
(Originally there were three operations, ANKLET, BRACELET and
ARCHERY A reconnaissance phase, ANKLET, was distinct from the
follow‑up phase, BRACELET, in which shore anti‑ aircraft batteries
and larger occupying forces were to be landed. C‑in‑C Home Fleet
successfully argued against a substantial land base being
established, and BRACELET was dropped.)
ANKLET was a landing in
force on the south‑western tip of the Lofoten Islands to establish a
base from which German communications south from northern Norway
could be harassed. ARCHERY was a diversionary raid on Vaagso, 350
miles south of Vestfjord, to divert enemy forces and attention from
the northern operations. In ANKLET Commando forces were to
land at Nappsund, Reine and Sorvag and neutralise German forces on
Moskenes and Flakstad islands , the outer two sizeable Lofotens.
Minesweepers were to sweep a path for the squadron, the cruiser
Arethusa, seven destroyers and two corvettes, to enter Skelfjord
once SCOTT had found and buoyed a dangerous pinnacle in the
entrance. SCOTT was then to survey the larger and more sheltered
Kirkefjord for longer‑term use by the squadron. All went according
to plan, the islands were seized without significant opposition on
26 December, SCOTT buoyed the rock in the entrance to Skelfjord, the
squadron entered and fuelled from its accompanying tankers. In what
remained of 26 December 1941 and the following day SCOTT completed
her survey of Kirkefjord while the destroyers made a sweep through
the waters of Vestfjord, and in the evening of 27 December the
squadron anchored in Kirkefjord. But during the day Arethusa had
been bombed and near-missed by a single Heinkel 115 seaplane and
intelligence began to come in that German dive bombers and other
aircraft were moving north in some force. It had been hoped that the
ships would be able to hide under the shore in Kirkefjord, but this
was not possible, and the surrounding hills made it likely that any
air attack could take the force by surprise. The force was therefore
withdrawn over the night of 28 to 29 December. During the withdrawal
SCOTT collided with Arethusa, both ships sustaining slight damage
(stem broken and twisted to port)
Source: EXTRACTS from: Charts and Surveys in Peace and War – The
History of the RN Hydrographic Service 1919 – 1970 by Rear Admiral R
O Morris CB
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