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Thorn (N11)
Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
Build Group: | T Group 2 |
Fate: | Depth chargedby Italian TB Pegaso off Torbruk on 7 Aug 1942. |
Roll of Honour
Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
Aitchison, Thomas McMillan | Stoker Petty Officer | C/KX 83016 | DSM* | 27 |
Balshaw, Joseph William | Leading Seaman (RNVR) | D/MD/X 2547 | 28 | |
Barrow, James | Able Seaman | D/SSX 33705 | 22 | |
Bell, Albert | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 76158 | 36 | |
Bell, Arthur Edwin Colin | Lieutenant (RNVR) | 24 | ||
Bond, Albert Godfrey | Telegraphist | P/JX 154890 | 20 | |
Boon, Frederick | Leading Seaman | D/JX 144535 | 22 | |
Brodie, Frank Harry | Able Seaman | D/JX 196780 | 25 | |
Burr, Walter Sidney | Leading Stoker | C/KX 100265 | 21 | |
Butcher, Henry Bernard Robert Burns | Petty Officer | D/JX 145695 | MID | 22 |
Caffery, Patrick | Stoker 1st Class | D/SKX 910 | 21 | |
Chalcraft, Reginald John | Able Seaman | P/JX 235692 | 21 | |
Cockwill, George Edward | Able Seaman | D/JX 212772 | MID | 21 |
Collier, James | Leading Seaman | D/SSX 19469 | 23 | |
Collier, James D/SSX 19469 DoB 14/05/1919 No BMD Information. | ||||
Crompton, Thomas | Able Seaman | D/JX 190274 | 21 | |
Davies, Leonard Frederick | Warrant Engineer | 39 | ||
Detton, Frederick Cyril | Leading Stoker | P/JX 85973 | 27 | |
Dodd, Kenneth | Leading Seaman | P/JX 148360 | 22 | |
Eason, William James | Chief Petty Officer | D/J 97357 | MID | 38 |
Elphick, Charles Donald | Petty Officer Telegraphist | P/JX 137927 | 25 | |
Flockhart, Peter | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 113074 | 22 | |
Freese, Joseph | Petty Officer Stoker | D/KX 85980 | MID | 25 |
Gibbons, Frederick Bernard | Able Seaman | P/JX 189434 | 20 | |
Gossman, Dennis Herbert | Petty Officer | C/JX 149240 | 22 | |
Gossman, Dennis Herbert C/JX 149240 DoB 27/04/1920 Age 22 CWGC Age 27 | ||||
Hatchard, Arthur James | Petty Officer | P/JX 125830 | DSM | 31 |
Hawksworth, Arthur St George | Lieutenant | 26 | ||
Hay, John | Stoker 1st Class (RNVR) | D/KX 118044 | MID | 24 |
Hayes, Patrick | Chief Stoker | D/K 58034 | DSM | 41 |
Hayler, Claude Levi | Ordinary Seaman | D/JX 199995 | 24 | |
Hayward, Leslie Edward | Leading Telegraphist | D/JX 150478 | DSM | 22 |
Henden, Frederick William Henry | Petty Officer | C/J 105303 | 36 | |
Incledon, Lewis John | Sub Lieutenant | 21 | ||
Jones, Charles (Johnny) | Able Seaman | P/JX 220357 | 20 | |
Laird, James Burton | Able Seaman | C/SSX 20927 | 22 | |
Magness, William Stanley | Petty Officer | D/JX 137447 | MID | 26 |
Maples, Cyril | Leading Telegraphist | P/JX 157413 | 21 | |
McCarthy, Dennis | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 110877 | 22 | |
McInnes, Colin | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 73106 | 39 | |
Milburn, John Joseph | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 129666 | 20 | |
Milliken, Thomas Eric | Petty Officer Steward | D/LX 21430 | 29 | |
Mitchell, Thomas | Able Seaman | P/SSX 21743 | 22 | |
Moorcroft, Reginald George | Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | P/MX 47791 | MID | 28 |
Newland, John Leonard | Leading Stoker | C/KX 88353 | 25 | |
Norfolk, Robert Galliano | Lieutenant Commander | DSO | 33 | |
Nuttall, Wilkin | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | D/MX 60274 | 22 | |
Parker, Chester James | Lieutenant (RNVR) | 26 | ||
Paterson, James Alexander | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 97396 | 21 | |
Paul, Charles Neville | Leading Cook | P/MX 50840 | 28 | |
Pope, John Edmund | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 111806 | 21 | |
Porter, Reginald Edward | Able Seaman | P/JX 223838 | 21 | |
Price, Thomas | Chief Engine Room Artificer | P/M 22637 | DSM | 41 |
Reeson, Robert Charles | Leading Stoker | C/KX 94382 | 22 | |
Smithson, John Albert | Leading Stoker | D/KX 92434 | 23 | |
Torr, Herbert | Yeoman of Signals | P/J 112475 | MID | 33 |
Upton, Walter William Gilmore | Able Seaman | P/SSX 22533 | MID | 24 |
Webb, Frederick Albert John | Able Seaman | D/JX199782 | 22 | |
Webster, George Walter | Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | D/MX 58988 | 24 | |
Wood, Bernard John | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 138477 | 18 | |
Wood, Eric Albert | Chief Engine Room Artificer | P/MX 51717 | 33 | |
Yardley, Kenneth James | Ordinary Seaman | D/JX 160490 | 20 | |
Yardley, Kenneth James D/JX 160490 CWGC has D/JX 160450 |
Events
20-01-1940 : | Laid Down |
18-03-1941 : | Launched |
26-08-1941 : | Completed |
30-12-1941 : | HMS Thorn torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Campina about 5 nautical miles west off Cape Dukato. |
28-01-1942 : | HMS Thorn torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Ninuccia off Cape Planka, Yugoslavia. |
30-01-1942 : | The Italian submarine Medusa was sunk in the Adriatic near Promontore, Istria, Italy by the British submarine HMS Thorn. |
05-03-1942 : | HMS Thorn sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel AS 91/Ottavia with gunfire of Kefalonia, Greece. |
07-05-1942 : | HMS Thorn fires four torpedoes against an Italian convoy in the central Mediterranean about 180 nautical miles north-west of Benghazi, Libya. All torpedoes missed their targets. |
03-08-1942 : | HMS Thorn torpedoes and sinks the Italian transport ship Monviso 8 nautical miles from Sidi Sueicher, Libya. |
06-08-1942 : | Lost. On the 7th August 1942 HMS Thorn encountered the Italian torpedo boat Pegaso, escorting the steamer Istria from Benghazi, 30 miles south west of Gaudhos Island, off southern Crete. At 1255 an escorting aircraft was seen to machine-gun the seas surface and Pegaso moved in to investigate. Just four minutes after the aircraft's attack the Pegaso picked-up a contact and carried out seven attacks after which contact was lost. HMS Thorn failed to return from the patrol and is believed to have been lost in this attack. |
Comments
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My mother’s brother, my uncle, was Kenneth James Yardley. He died on the Thorn on that fateful day in August of 1942. I never knew him as I was born a few years later. His mother was tormented for the rest of her life. |
My father was Able seaman Charles Jones who survived the torpedoing with spinal injuries. |
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