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M1

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: M
Fate: Rammed and was sunk on 12th November 1925 by SS Vidar off Start Point. Wreckage was not found until 1990 by Royal Navy and more recently by divers in 1999.
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M1 cutaway model of gun
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Started life a K18. Served with the 6th Flotilla until October 1918.


Roll of Honour

Name Rank Number Hons Age
Adams, Cecil Passey  Leading Seaman  J 52992    25
Alexander, Arthur Horace  Petty Officer  J 14439    30
Allen, William Charles  Able Seaman  J 51725    25
Andrews, Enoch James  Able Seaman  J 39562    26
Baby, Ernest Arthur  Able Seaman  J 71374    25
Baker, Edward Charles Goodchild  Stoker Petty Officer  K 12959    32
RN DoB 10/01/1893. Actual 10/01/1894
Ball, Harold  Able Seaman  J 39475    27
Ball, John Samuel  Leading Stoker  K 35977    27
Bell, William McDonald  Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class  M 7020    27
Bicker, Roland  Chief Petty Officer  224812    38
Buttle, James Fry  Able Seaman  J 22045    30
Carrie, Alec Murray  Lieutenant Commander      30
Commanding Officer
Casey, Robert Cameron  Lieutenant (RAN)      25
Clark, Walter Thomas  Able Seaman  J 98756    21
Cleaver, Edward George  Stoker 1st Class  K 58802    27
Clough, Nelson Orlando  Signalman  J 39878    26
Cowling, Albert George  Leading Stoker  K 18120    31
Dearing, Leonard Andree Percy  Able Seaman  J 78620    23
Dennis, William Francis  Electrical Artificer 2nd Class  M 12651    30
Dixon, Reginald Charles  Petty Officer  231628    37
Duggan, Albert Frederick Harvey  Leading Seaman  J 62085    24
Edden, Thomas Henry  Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class  M 14517    25
Erskine, William  Leading Stoker  K 63811    24
Joined with Service Number SS 120628 before signing for extended engagement and changing to K63811.
Evans, Albert  Able Seaman  J 96697    21
Feltham, Frank  Stoker 1st Class  K 57863    24
RN DoB 27/07/1901. Actual 27/07/1902
Foley, John Frederick  Able Seaman  J 48199    26
Gardner, Charles  Chief Stoker  233422    37
Gay, Albert Arthur  Telegraphist  J 62961    24
Good, Cyril Sidney  Warrant Engineer      44
At birth Good, Cyril Sidney On some RN records Good, Cyril Sydney
Gore, Sidney John Ethelbert  Engine Room Artificer 1st Class  M 4730  DSM  34
In ADM 104 Series M4731, Service record has M4730
Harding, Gordon George  Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class  M 10953    35
Hewson, Philip  Ordnance Artificer 3rd Class  M 8641    29
Hobday, Albert Edmund  Petty Officer  236378    41
Jewell, Henry George  Able Seaman  J 48749    25
Jones, Bertie William  Petty Officer  J 20035    30
Kemble, George  Leading Stoker  K 10187    33
RN DoB 06/02/1892. Actual 06/02/1891
Kent, Arthur William  Leading Seaman  J 15182    29
Kidney, James  Leading Seaman  J53085    25
Law, John William  Able Seaman  J65730    24
Littell, Robert Charles  Ordnance Artificer 3rd Class  M 35596    31
Lovering, Ernest Thomas  Able Seaman  J 24879    27
Manning, John  Able Seaman  J 103109    20
Mansell, Cecil George Cobden  Stoker 1st Class  K 60530    24
Martin, Charles James  Able Seaman  J 90561    23
Millard, Harold  Stoker 1st Class  K 62220    22
Morgan, George Petvin  Petty Officer  239799    34
Morrisey, James  Stoker 1st Class  K 62857    20
Moyse, Victor Charles  Able Seaman  J 23751    27
Neighbour, Herbert Edward  Able Seaman  J 89919    23
Nichols, David Richard  Stoker 1st Class  K 57987    25
Nicholson, William Frederick  Leading Seaman  J 19870    29
Pearson, William Adolphus  Able Seaman  J 42467    26
RN DoB 04/05/1899. Actual 04/05/1901
Philpott, Thomas Walker  Lieutenant      24
Price, William Frederick  Leading Seaman  J 25784    27
Sayers, Charles Alfred  Able Seaman  J 31401    26
Smith, Frederick William  Petty Officer Telegraphist  J 9944    30
Spratley, Percival  Telegraphist  J 69385    24
Storey, Charles Clarence  Stoker 1st Class  K 58715    31
Styles, Reginald Percy  Able Seaman  J 28159    27
Tamblin, William John  Leading Seaman  J 94557    37
Taylor, Robert  Able Seaman  J 41914    26
Thorpe, Charles Arthur Robert  Lieutenant      26
Commander of M2
Turner, Walter Isaac  Leading Signalman  J 36092    26
Vaughan, William Charles Albert  Leading Seaman  J 32281    26
Washington, Sidney William  Leading Seaman  J 24170    27
Webster, Albert Ernest  Leading Seaman  J 92635    23
Williams, Henry Richard  Stoker 1st Class  K 56132    24
RN DoB 24/03/1901. Actual 24/03/1903
Wright, Charles Edwin  Steward  L 12944    22
Wright, Frederick George  Able Seaman  J 99863    22

Events

01-07-1916 : Laid Down
09-07-1917 : Launched
17-04-1918 : Completed
12-11-1925 : M1 was rammed by the SS Vidal off Start Point and was lost without survivors.
Comments

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From memory, in 1919 after leaving HMSm E45 (a mine-layer) at her moorings at Harwich my grandfather (Charles T [Hookey] Walker) whom we always referred to as Pop transferred to HMSm M1. In both boats, he served as Forendsman which today I think he would have been called a torpedoman. Pop always remembered having very good skin as he often cleaned the outside surface of his torpedos with Sperm Oil (and used shark skin as an abrasive?)

Pop left M1 when she called into Chatham for a major refit in May 1925? In those days I believe it was usual for submariners to spend the last 6 months of their service on surface ships. Pop was assisted into civvie-street and about to leave the RN to work in the GPO when he was on a train and happened to see a newspaper headline announcing the loss of M1 with all hands after an underwater collision with the Swedish ship SS Vidar.

God bless all those 'still on patrol'.
   John Harlow Tue, 15 Nov 2022

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