Utmost (N19)
Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
Build Group: | U Group 1 |
Fate: | Depth charged by Italian TB Groppo off the west coast of Sicily on 24 November 1942. |
Ex P42
Adoption
The communities of Prestwich donations included a football kit donated by Sedgley Park toward HMS Utmost. The presentation plaque used to be in Prestwich Memorial Hall, but was relocated to Bury with the Jolly Roger. A further plaque to HMS Utmost is in the Remembrance Chapel in St Mary’s Church.
Roll of Honour
Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
Alderson, Arthur | Able Seaman | P/SSX 23867 | 21 | |
Betts, Albert | Able Seaman | C/SSX 29116 | MID | 23 |
Brown, William Albert | Able Seaman | C/SSX 29098 | 22 | |
Brown, William Albert C/SSX 29098 CWGC has C/SSX 29095 | ||||
Clabby, John | Stoker Petty Officer | P/KX 75337 | DSM* | 37 |
Cockburn, Thomas Bethune | Leading Telegraphist | C/JX 134985 | DSM | 27 |
Coombe, John Walter David | Lieutenant | 26 | ||
Davison, Albert Sander Cock | Able Seaman | D/JX 134010 | 28 | |
Dean, Percival Cyril | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 135199 | 22 | |
Des Voeux, John Harold | Lieutenant | 21 | ||
Born as Walker, John Harold 13/09/21. Served as Des Voeux, John Harold. | ||||
Gasgoigne, Austen Malcolm | Leading Seaman | C/JX 138270 | 26 | |
Gough, John | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 76833 | 21 | |
Hodgkinson, Raymond Leslie | Able Seaman | C/JX 203433 | 27 | |
Jones, Stacey Baker | Able Seaman | P/J 95513 | DSM | 39 |
Kettle, Cyril | Leading Stoker | C/KX 80337 | DSM | 30 |
Kettle, Cyril C/KX 80337 DoB 20/12/1911 Age 30 CWGC has Age 36 | ||||
Lee, Albert Edward Hutchings | Petty Officer | C/JX 136973 | 26 | |
Lever, Robert Boothman | Leading Stoker | D/KX 92920 | 26 | |
At birth Boothman, Robert L. Served s Lever, Robert Boothman | ||||
McLachlan, John | Able Seaman | P/SSX 30855 | 20 | |
Meredith, Thomas | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 114111 | 24 | |
Newton, Wilfred | Signalman | D/JX 164995 | 35 | |
Ex.J108677 | ||||
Page, Leslie Harold | Chief Engine Room Artificer | D/MX 34929 | BEM | 38 |
Seal, Reginald Alfred | Leading Stoker | C/KX 105335 | 21 | |
Shanahan, James | Able Seaman | D/JX 131173 | DSM | 30 |
Simons, Thomas William | Petty Officer | C/J 114129 | DSM* | 33 |
Taverner, Brian William | Lieutenant (RNVR) | 24 | ||
West, Kenneth John | Telegraphist | C/JX 140959 | 25 | |
West, Kenneth Raymond | Petty Officer Telegraphist | C/JX 137628 | 26 | |
White, Alfred Charles | Able Seaman | P/SSX 18042 | 25 | |
Wilby, Kenneth Gordon | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 132601 | 20 | |
Williams, Albert Victor | Telegraphist | P/JX 127921 | 32 | |
Williams, Dan | Leading Seaman | P/JX 148900 | 22 | |
Williams, Dan P/JX 148900 DoB 12/01/1920 Age 22. CWGC has Williams, Daniel | ||||
Wilson, Richard Douglas | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | P/MX 56274 | DSM | 25 |
Wood, John Claude Hudson | Lieutenant (RNR) | 24 | ||
Woodcock, Frank Henry | Leading Seaman | C/SSX 20569 | 23 | |
Events
02-11-1939 : | Laid Down |
20-04-1940 : | Launched |
17-08-1940 : | Completed |
12-02-1941 : | HMS Utmost torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Manfredo Camperio off Tripoli, Libya. |
09-03-1941 : | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Capo Vita about 30 nautical miles north-east of Sousse, Tunisia. |
28-03-1941 : | HMS Utmost attacks a convoy of 5 German merchants and three Italian destroyers and torpedoes and sinks the German merchants Heraklea and torpedoed and damages the Ruhr 22 nautical miles south-east of Kuriat, Tunisia. |
30-05-1941 : | HMS Utmost makes a torpedo attack on a convoy off Sirte. All torpedoes miss their targets. |
26-06-1941 : | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Enrico Costa 4 nautical miles from Cape Todaro, Sicily, Italy. |
28-07-1941 : | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Frederico C. in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea of the west coast of Calabria, Italy. |
01-11-1941 : | HMS Utmost destroys the Italian merchant Marigola off Kuriat Island, Tunisia. |
02-11-1941 : | ORP Sokol and HMS Utmost together sink the Italian merchant Balilla about 20 nautical miles north-west of Capo San Vito, Sicily, Italy. |
21-11-1941 : | HMS Utmost torpedoed and damaged Italian cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi in the Mediterranean. |
12-12-1941 : | HMS Utmost attacks the Italian merchant Fabio Filzi in the Gulf of Taranto but miss the target. |
10-08-1942 : | HMS Utmost fires four torpedoes against the Italian merchant Siculo off Marettimo but miss the target. |
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