Made over 63,000 images of crew list documents. When he died his son Ian discovered a photo album with pictures of when the ship was in Australia. She arrived in Wellington on 27 November and was opened for public tours, during which time the Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, also visited. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from IWM collections Menu. Indefatigable was thereafter rated as a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate, along with Magnanime and Anson, which were converted at about the same time. [7], Indefatigable was first commissioned in December 1794 under Captain Sir Edward Pellew. [19][20], In September 1796, Indefatigable, Phoebe, Rvolutionnaire, and Amazon captured five Spanish ships. All three battlecruisers had problems with their boilers, but Goeben and Breslau were able to break contact and reached Messina by the morning of the 5th. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. The Reverend Guy Arnott Browning, M.A. King. The ship arrived at Sydney on 18 September and began a leisurely refit that lasted until 15 November. In July 1796, there was an initial distribution of 20,000 of prize money for the capture of Unite and Virginie. Indefatigable was present at the formal surrender of the Japanese on 2 September in Tokyo Bay. We enjoy dealing with awkward questions; we don't think there is such a thing as a silly question, and we often Royal Navy 309255 Stoker 1st class HMS Indefatigable More about Ernest Jenkinson William Joseph Pearn Born 1881 Died 1916 Royal Navy 345666 More about William Joseph Pearn Ernest Darwin Born 1879 Died 1916 Royal Navy 345260 Electrical Artificer 1st Class HMS Indefatigable More about Ernest Darwin William Ahern Born 1882 Died 1916 This site uses cookies. Pellew sent her into Falmouth. [3] She carried enough coal and fuel oil to give her a range of 6,330 nautical miles (11,720km; 7,280mi) at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19km/h; 12mph). [50] After the ceasefire, Indefatigable's aircraft continued to fly CAP and flew reconnaissance missions looking for Allied prisoners of war, dropping supplies to them as they were located. Indefatigable, however, had been chosen to remain as part of the Allied occupation force. She herself scored approximately 10 hits, during the battle. We are continuing to add to She was pierced for 14 guns but had only three mounted. We've spent a lot of time trying to make it as clear and helpful as possible. By all accounts, James Cook's HMS Endeavour sojourn in Tahiti was a pivotal moment in Enlightenment engagements between Indigenous and European cultures. Made the first complete record of British registered ships, from 1855 to the 1950s, with 200,000 entries from the Appropriation Books at RSS in Cardiff. She departed three days later for Manus en route to Sydney. Displacement (loaded) 22,110t. The magazines for the 4.5-inch guns lay outside the armoured citadel and were protected by 2 to 3-inch roofs, 4.5-inch sides and 1.5 to 2-inch ends.[20]. HMS Truculent was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. In 1954 she married T.S. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}). [49], On 3 July Indefatigable recaptured the brig Cultivator, from the French. The intention of the attack was to test the fortifications and measure the Turkish response. [35] Pellew exchanged prisoners, taking off the crew of the Canada and putting on her the crew of Heureux. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. [6] Indefatigable's complement was approximately 2,300 officers and ratings in 1945. [35] Her prize was the Canada, John Sewell Master, which had been sailing from Jamaica to London, having stopped in Charlestown, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and coffee. HMS Indefatigable was an Implacable -class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy. We are delighted to help with advice about finding records (that's what CLIP and this web site is all about) but please do not ask us [25], Indefatigable, along with the other Jutland wrecks, was belatedly declared a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, to discourage further damage to the resting place of 1,016 men. & Home. Her two consorts Sagesse and Eclatant escaped into the river. [73], Indefatigable arrived at the Basque Roads on 25 February. The most significant consequence was that the attention of the Turks was drawn to strengthening their defences, and they set about expanding the mine field. We explain what indexes are available and how to use them. HMS Indefatigable (1784) was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1784, razeed to a 44-gun frigate in 1795 and broken up in 1816. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 January 1950 - British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men. On 12 March 1951 she sortied from Portland, flying Micklethwaite's flag, to exercise with the Home Fleet before beginning a brief refit at Devonport in May. John E. Gifford. [68] She was six years old, had a burthen of 482 tons (bm), was armed with fourteen 9 and 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 68 men. Henry G. S. Laing. Among the voyage records that survive, the Endeavour draftsman Sydney Parkinson's Journal of a. William L. Griffith. [29] Hyne had apparently mistaken Indefatigable for a vessel from Portuguese India. We are now on Facebook. On 11 June Vengeur had captured the Jersey-privateer lugger Snake. The British captured the French corvette Csar (or Caesar), which the Royal Navy took into service as HMS Cesar. To remain within the 23,000 long tons (23,000t) limit allowed by the Second London Naval Treaty, these improvements could only be made by reducing armour protection. By creating an account you agree to us emailing you with newsletters and discounts, which you can switch off in your account at any time. Completed in 1944, her aircraft made several attacks that year against the German battleshipTirpitz, inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway. Kitt, Robert Francis - Stoker 1st Class Laing, Henry George Stobart - Lieutenant [45] Indefatigable was forced to remain behind as she required repairs to her machinery. George Barratt. [7] The work was carried out at Portsmouth from September 1794 to February 1795 at a cost of 8,764. She was the temporary flagship of the 2nd BCS during AprilMay 1916, while her half-sister HMASAustralia was under repair after colliding with Indefatigable's other half-sister New Zealand. data is focussed on tracking down crew lists, but we provide other resources, such as indexed images of the Mercantile Navy List, as well as a comprehensive set of links to other sites. The BPF had been scheduled to withdraw after 10 August to prepare for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu scheduled for November, and the bulk of the force departed for Manus on 12 August. [56] The Royal Navy took Medea into service as Iphigenia and Clara as Leocadia. Pellew sent Cambrian in pursuit. Two minutes later, he ordered a course change to east south-east to position himself astride the German's line of retreat and called his ships' crews to action stations. At this stage only individual photographs of sailors are being added and not group photographs. She was armed with twenty-two 9-pounder guns and had a crew of 175 men. [75], In April 1809 Indefatigable participated in the battle of the Basque Roads. [46] On 11 February Indefatigable captured the Vidette. The ship's Seafires lacked the range to reach the targets so they were retained on combat air patrols (CAP) over the fleet for both attacks. [75] Foxhound was also in company for the capture of Nymphe. var monthlist= ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']; The underwater defence system was a layered system of liquid- and air-filled compartments as used in the Illustrious class. Set up a site giving access to images of 70 editions of the Mercantile Navy List - both our own images and sets from the Maritime History Archive in Newfoundland, (with their kind permission). On 9 August 1804 Indefatigable was in sight when HMSNautilus recaptured the West Indiaman William Heathcote off Bayonne. Contact us. Indefatigable alone lost two killed and 11 wounded. HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. We have added some case studies to illustrate research into records of seafarers and ships. En route they were attacked by a dozen Zeros in the last British air combat of the war. The ship suffered a loss of 98 of her crew and 55 were wounded. [3], In October 1809 Indefatigable was under Captain Henry E. R. More direct hits were aimed at her forecastle which ultimately ignited some magazine stores. We can reunite you with your friends who served at HMS Indefatigable and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. She participated in exercises with the Home Fleet and joined it in Gibraltar in September and October. Stephen Munnelly. [67] In December a distribution of 10,000 was payable for the proceeds from Diane and Adele. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her active service took place after her conversion to a 44-gun heavy frigate. Victorious, one of the Illustrious-class ships upon which Indefatigable's design was based, also carried Type 279 and Type 281B early-warning radars. From her, he learned that there were two privateers around Corunna, one of which had captured a brig from Lisbon with a cargo of bale goods two days earlier. Indefatigablehad an overall length of 590 feet (179.8 m), a beamof 80 feet (24.4 m), and a draughtof 29 feet 9 inches (9.1 m) at deep load. Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Alongside that we provide data and image sets relating to She fell out of formation to starboard and started sinking towards the stern and listing to port. Pellew sent Virginie into Plymouth under the escort of Concorde, and followed the next day with Amazon, which had sustained some damage. She had cost 25,210 4s 5d to build; her total initial cost including fitting out and coppering was 36,154 18s 7d. [Note 1] The ends of the hangars were protected by 2-inch bulkheads[7] and the armour of the hangar deck ranged from 1.5 to 2.5 inches (38 to 64mm) in thickness. She returned to Sydney for the holidays and visited Melbourne on 22 January 1946 before departing for home nine days later. The latter squadron also flew two Fireflies on an armed reconnaissance mission over an airfield that lay between the carriers and their target. During the day, Indefatigable's aircraft attacked targets in northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido. Stanley N. de Quetteville, R.C.N [13] In December of the same year, she transferred to the Mediterranean, where she joined the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron. this site, in particular the images of the Mercantile Navy List and data on the locations of documents. She was four days out of Nantes on a 30-day cruise, but had taken no prizes. A new Liberal Government had taken power in January 1906 and demanded reductions in naval spending, and the Admiralty submitted a reduced programme, requesting dreadnoughts but no battlecruisers. The upper hangar was 458 feet (139.6m) long and the lower hangar was 208 feet (63.4m) long; both had a maximum width of 62 feet (18.9m). email info @ jutlandcrewlists.org (remove spaces). HMS Indefatigable ( Navy Photos, click to enlarge) return to Contents List. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, Campagnes (oprations; divisions et stations navales; missions diverses), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Indefatigable_(1784)&oldid=1117981877, Razeed to 44 guns between September 1794 and February 1795, 19ft (5.8m) (as frigate, 13ft 3in (4.0m)), Fc: 4 12-pounder guns + 2 42-pounder carronades, This page was last edited on 24 October 2022, at 15:30. R.M. She departed on 9 June and arrived at Plymouth on 7 July. Become a Member Terms of Service apply. [29] She was armed with twenty-four 9-pounder guns and had a crew of 230 men. She had left Rochefort on 1 August, and the le de R on the 4th, where she had picked up 25 banished priests, 27 convicts, and a Madame Rovere and family, all of whom she was taking to Cayenne. [48][d] Indefatigable shared the prize money with Sirius. [5] On 31 May she captured the brig Vnus. [68], On 19 August Indefatigable, still in company with Conflict, captured Adele. [21], On 1 October, Indefatigable, Amazon, Rvolutionnaire, Phoebe, and Jason shared in the capture of the Vrow Delenea Maria. Hence the captains and crew shared a relatively small ex gratia payment of 160,000 for the bullion, plus the proceeds of the sale of the hull and cargo. Pellew signalled to Rvolutionnaire to cut her off from the shore. "[16] Milne still did not believe that Souchon was heading for the Dardanelles, and so he resolved to guard the exit from the Aegean, unaware that the Goeben did not intend to come out. The stern portion had not previously been discovered.[23]. The Cabinet rejected this proposal in favour of two outmoded armoured cruisers but finally acceded to a request for one battlecruiser instead, after the Admiralty pointed out the need to match the recently published German naval construction plan and to maintain the heavy gun and armour industries. Captain Quintin Graham was appointed to command the ship in August 1943. Both were merchant seamen of some experience at the time they joined the . The design originated as an improved version of the Illustrious-class aircraft carriers and was intended to be 2 knots (3.7km/h; 2.3mph) faster and carry an additional dozen aircraft over the 30-knot (56km/h; 35mph) speed and 36 aircraft of the earlier ships. Over the last twenty years we have worked with hundreds of people and many archives around the world to make the largest database of . She had 12 guns and a crew of 75 men. [23] Of her crew of 1,019, only three survived. [43], On 17 August 1945, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander of the BPF, came aboard and addressed the crew. [22] Later that month, Indefatigable fought her most famous battle. Brown, David K., p. 51, fn. Indefatigable, Melpomene, and Nymphe recaptured the Providence on 10 January 1799, the Pomona on 5 February, and the Wohlfarden on 9 February. She also had four feet of water in her hold from shot holes. She had taken several prizes, one of which, the Asphalon, Indefatigable captured on 1 January 1799. Amazon also ran onto the shore; still, almost her entire crew survived both the battle and the grounding and were captured. Lieutenant please At 0723, roughly around the same time that X-6 was struggling, X-7 was successful in approaching without being detected, and delivered its cargo toward the stern of Tirpitz. She was armed with 22 guns and had a crew of 130 men. A flight of four Seafires on CAP spotted four Japanese fighters, three Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes and a Kawasaki Ki-61 "Tony" later that morning, and shot down one Zero. J10641 John Williams, born 19th May 1894. [21] It has been thought that the most likely cause of her loss was a deflagration or low-order explosion in 'X' magazine that blew out her bottom and severed the steering control shafts, followed by the explosion of her forward magazines from the second volley. Harold V. Coombes, R.N.R. We'll do our best to advise. As it was, the money and ships were declared to be "Droits of Admiralty" on the grounds that war had not been declared. Subsequently, Indefatigable or Pellew's squadron took more vessels, including privateers, primarily in the Channel. [80], Then in June 1812, under Captain John Fyffe, Indefatigable was on the South American station, where she visited the Galpagos Islands. She returned to Portland in late March and visited Bournemouth at the end of May. [2], About a year later, on 19 October 1806, Indefatigable, Hazard, and Atalante captured the chasse marees Achille, Jenny, and Marianne. Assistant Clerk [5] These guns had a maximum range of 4,800 yards (4,400m), but some were replaced by 40 mm Bofors AA guns when the ships were transferred to the Pacific Theatre as the 20mm (0.79in) shell was unlikely to destroy a kamikaze before it hit the ship. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google It was a Queen Elizabeth class of ship and had six similar counterparts. This had no short-term impact on their activities as they sailed for the Western Mediterranean on their annual winter cruise. The British lost six men killed, 36 wounded and 21 missing. HMS Barham. [70] Theseus and Impeteuex were in company with Indefatigable at the time. Psychogeography. Captain John Grant relieved Sherbrooke on 6 June and the ship was opened to visitors as part of the Festival of Britain on 17 July. Following the end of hostilities she visited ports in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. While Indefatigable was still conducting builder's trials,[24] a de Havilland Mosquito landed aboard on 25 March, piloted by Lieutenant Eric Brown (this is often cited as the first landing by a twin-engined aeroplane on an aircraft carrier,[25] but in fact a Potez 565 had landed on and taken off from the French carrier Barn in 1936). The ship normally displaced 18,500 long tons (18,800 t) and 22,130 long tons (22,490 t) at deep load. [8] During a pre-war refit, a 9-foot (2.7m) rangefinder was added to the rear of the 'A' turret roof, and this turret was equipped to control the entire main armament as an emergency backup for the normal fire-control positions. However, we know that the records of ships and seafarers are a [16], On 3 November 1914, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the first British attack on the Dardanelles following the commencement of hostilities between Ottoman Turkey and Russia. Captain John Grindle was appointed to command on 24 March 1950 and the ship was recommissioned on 28 May. Indefatigable and Amphion escorted Mede and Fama to Plymouth. The British were able to decode the German radio messages and left their bases before the Germans put to sea. Transcribed 57,000 entries of foreign-going masters and mates from the records in BT 124 at TNA. [47] The BPF's aircraft crippled the escort carrier Kaiyo and sank numerous smaller ships on 24 July. HMS Indefatigable - Regiment History, War & Military Records & Archives Home Search Military Records Your New Records Unit Info Historic Documents Collections Maps Hire a Researcher Help Help Centre Contact Us Tutorials Research Guides My Account Login / Register Search Free Forum Features About Us Home Help Login / Register [36] 887 Squadron sank seven seaplanes at their moorings at Banak during the operation. Gunner The Implacable class were ordered under the 1938 Naval Programme by the Chamberlain government as part of the general rearmament begun in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Her next voyage involved transporting a much smaller number of men to Malta and Colombo; only 47 officers and 67 ratings, most of whom left the ship at Malta. The turret crewmen merely had to follow pointers transmitted from the director to align their guns on the target. The turbines were rated at 43,000 shaft horsepower (32,000kW) and were intended to give the ship a maximum speed of 25 knots (46km/h; 29mph). Their secondary armament consisted of sixteen BL 4-inch (102mm) Mark VII guns positioned in the superstructure. [10], She received a fire-control director between mid-1915 and May 1916 that centralised fire control under the director officer who now fired the guns. [3] Indefatigable was 766feet 6inches (233.6m) long overall and 730 feet (222.5m) at the waterline. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, Captain Over the summer she exercised with the Home Fleet and visited the Danish port of Aarhus, where she was visited by Queen Alexandrine of Denmark in July. HMS Indefatigable, and HMS Furious attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway in Operation Mascot . War would not actually be declared until 12 August, and the order was countermanded four hours later, but Milne gave up the hunt for Goeben, following his standing orders to guard the Adriatic against an Austrian break-out attempt. [52], The Admiralty decided to recommission Indefatigable for use as a training ship in mid-1949. 6, 2014. [26] Indefatigable and Cleopatra captured the Hope on 11 July. [17], The Implacable-class ships had a flight deck protected by 3 inches (76mm) of armour. Sig.-Boatswain Captain Ralph Fisher assumed command on 30 January 1953 and took her to sea three weeks later for exercises with the Home Fleet and her annual visit to Gibraltar. If you have any unwanted British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indefatigable' (1784) British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indefatigable' (1784). The latter penetrated the armoured deck but failed to explode and would probably have inflicted serious damage, possibly even sinking the ship, had it done so. Completed in 1944, her aircraft made several attacks that year against the German battleship Tirpitz, inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway. Mate (E) 1516, 1819; Friedman, pp. 894 Squadron, equipped with Seafires, landed aboard after the attack on 24 July to complete No. The British took her into service as Danae. i just see wiki . Most of the boats in the attack were so shot through that the British later abandoned them. They shared with Indefatigable in the proceeds for the hull, but not the bounty money for the captured crew. The turret faces were 7 inches (178mm) thick, and the turrets were supported by barbettes of the same thickness. Media in category "HMS Indefatigable (R10)" The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total. Thomas J. Eustis. Engineer A single quadruple 2-pounder mount was also fitted on the port side of the hull. [13] The 2-pounder gun had a maximum range of 6,800 yards (6,200m). A Yokosuka D4Y "Judy" dive bomber attacked the carrier after the ceasefire went into effect, but its two bombs missed. C. F. Sowerby was appointed captain on 24 February 1913. Unlike the Illustrious-class ships, the roofs of the gun turrets were flat and flush with the flight deck. [69] On 1 and 9 September 1808 Indefatigable captured two American ships, Sally and Peggy. 111, 113. Other vessels which Minerve had captured included Martinus (Bremen brig), Tagus (Portuguese brig ), Minerva (English snow), and Ann and Dorothea (aka Beata Maria, Danish schooner). Privacy Policy and [5] Indefatigable was laid up in ordinary at Plymouth in March to April 1802, as a result of the peace of October 1801. [5], On 9 March 1795, Indefatigable, Concorde, and Jason captured numerous French prizes: Temeraire, Minerve, Gentille, Regeneration, and a brig and sloop of unknown names. Cookies help us deliver our services. 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