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Sirdar (P226)

Built By: Scotts (Clyde)
Build Group: S3
Sirdar (P226)
Sirdar (P226)
Sirdar (P226)
HMS Sirdar completed 1943. Seen with snort mast but no Oerlikon gun on bandstand. Apart from the post war snort mast, the arrangement has a post war look with the distinctive

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Completed by Vickers Barrow

Able Seaman Oliver Gaffney

Able Seaman Oliver Gaffney P/JX 291388 died in an accident on 6th May 1944 while HMS Sirdar was on passage to Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was on a stopover at Aden.

Oliver Gaffney died in the RAF Hospital at Aden from a fractured vertebra/spinal cord injury, the result of a diving accident.

Twenty three year old Oliver Gaffney originally from Willington, County Durham was the son of James William and Mary Ellen Gaffney of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He is buried in the Maala Cemetery in Yemen in Grave no F.10

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Died: 06-05-1944
Gaffney, Oliver  P/JX 291388
Able Seaman Died: 06-05-1944 Aged: 23
from Willington, County Durham
Submarine HMS Sirdar was on passage to Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was on a stopover at Aden. Oliver Gaffney died in the RAF Hospital at Aden from a fractured vertebra/spinal cord injury, the result of a diving accident.

The son of James William and Mary Ellen Gaffney of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

Events

24-04-1941 Laid Down
26-03-1943 Launched
20-09-1943 Completed
08-06-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
11-06-1944 HMS Sirdar damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire north of Sumatra.
18-07-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire off the west coast of Siam.
21-07-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks two Japanese coasters with gunfire off the west coast of Siam.
01-09-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire north-west of Sumatra.
01-09-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks the Japanese guardboat Kaiyo Maru No.5 with gunfire about 17 nautical miles south-east of Meulaboh, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
25-12-1944 HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire off Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.
01-02-1953 Sirdar was swamped by floods while in dry dock at the naval dockyard at Sheerness, Kent, and later sank.
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