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H 49

Built By: Beardmore (Clyde)
Build Group: H21
Fate: On 17th October 1940, HMS H49 (Lt. Richard Evelyn Coltart, DSC, RN) sailed from Harwich with orders to patrol off Texel, on the Dutch coast.

On the following day, to the west of Texel in the Netherlands by H49 was depth charged by the German auxiliary submarine chasers UJ-116 and UJ-118. One survivor was picked up. He was L/Sto George William Oliver D/KX 77876, but the other 26 members of the crew were lost.
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Commanders
1919: Lieutenant   Thomas Aislabie Powell MID
1922: Lieutenant   John Murray
1923: Lieutenant   Stanley Edward Norfolk
1925: Lieutenant   Thomas Bennett Brunton
1927: Lieutenant   George Walter Gillow Simpson
1928: Lieutenant   Robert Cecil Somers Garwood
1929: Lieutenant   Martyn Butt Sherwood
1933: Lieutenant   Eric Roland John Oddie
1934: Lieutenant   Benajmin Bryant
1937: Lieutenant   Wilfrid Frederick Haselfoot
1939: Lieutenant   Charles Joseph Reginald Cave
1939: Lieutenant   Edward Francis Balston
1939: Lieutenant Commander   Wilfrid Frederick Haselfoot
1939: Lieutenant Commander   John Hay Forbes
1940: Lieutenant Commander   Peter Ronald Ward
1940: Lieutenant   Richard Evelyn Coltart DSC
1940: Lieutenant   Michael Armitage Langley

Roll of Honour
26
Died: 18-10-1904
Amery, Jack  P/MX 53237
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 31
Boyles, Alexander  C/KX 80080
Stoker Petty Officer Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 29
Caie, Ernest James  MID C/J 72837
Leading Telegraphist Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 39
Carew-Hunt, Adrian 
Sub Lieutenant Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 20
Coleman, Frederick George  P/JX 129345
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 29
Coltart, Richard Evelyn  DSC
Lieutenant Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 28
Cotton, William Arthur  DSM D/M 37090
Chief Engine Room Artificer Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 33
Cripps, Ronald Victor  MID P/MX 45268
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 30
Davidson, James Henry  DSM C/J 108151
Chief Petty Officer Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 33
Dearden, Lionel Humphrey Lucas 
Sub Lieutenant Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 23
Edmonds, Charles William  D/J 108349
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 32
Feary, Ernest William  C/J 114958
Petty Officer Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 30
Gasser, Thomas James  P/JX 150266
Telegraphist Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 19
Goffe-Wood, William Frederick  D/K 65955
Stoker 1st Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 33
Herrett, Donald  P/KX 91849
Stoker 1st Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 21
Hills, Frederick George  MID C/J 95282
Leading Signalman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 37
Hobbs, Henry Thomas Blackwell  D/J 73247
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 39
Hull, John  P/JX 142391
Telegraphist Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 21
Knowles, Augustus Chambers  D/J 105999
Leading Signalman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 33
McKay, Stewart Nicol  P/SSX 16985
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 24
Peterkin, Claude Hamilton  DSC
Lieutenant Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 26
Simpson, Frank Deacon  P/KX 84888
Stoker 1st Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 25
Soar, Patrick James  D/KX 89148
Stoker 1st Class Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 23
Stevens, Robert  C/JX 138884
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 23
CWGC has C/Jx 138854
West, Ernest Francis  D/KX 76755
Leading Stoker Born: 26-01-1907 Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 2
White, William  C/JX 150050
Able Seaman Died: 18-10-1904 Aged: 20

Events

 21-01-1918   Laid Down
 15-07-1919   Launched
 25-10-1919   Commissioned
 16-09-1940   HMS H 49 fired 4 torpedoes at a large, 16 ship, convoy and 8 bunched ships were fired at without success.
 18-10-1940   HMS H-49 sunk by UJ116 and UJ118 off the Dutch coast

H49 put to sea from Harwich on with orders to patrol off the Dutch coast. At 1510 the submarine sighted a German anti-submarine flotilla of five vessels at a distance of 3000 yards, the flotilla also spotted the submarine. H49 immediately dived to 60 feet and depth charges began to fall around her. The submarine endured over two hours of depth charge attacks until 1850 when a large oil slick was sighted on the surface by the attacking vessels - marking the end of H49.
 18-10-1940   Stoker George Oliver floated to the surface unconscious, without a DSEA set, after a depth charge attack opened up the hull. He was the only survivor. He was rescued and revived by the German Navy, became a POW.
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