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M 1

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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Commanders
1918: Commander   Max Kennedy Horton
1921: Commander   Charles Gordon Brodie
1925: Lieutenant Commander   Alec M Carrie

Started life a K18. Served with the 6th Flotilla until October 1918.

Served in the Mediterranean under Horton until the Armistice.


The wreckage of M1 was not found until 1990 by the Royal Navy and more recently by divers in 1999.

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Roll of Honour
69
 
Adams, Cecil Passey  J 52992
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 25
Alexander, Arthur Horace  J 14439
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Aged: 30
Allen, William Charles  J 51725
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 25
Andrews, Enoch James  J 39562
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 26
Baby, Ernest Arthur  J 71374
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 25
Baker, Edward Charles Goodchild  K 12959 Born: 10th Jan, 1894. 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker Petty Officer Aged: 31
RN DoB 10/01/1893
Ball, Harold  J 39475
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 27
Ball, John Samuel  K 35977
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Stoker Aged: 27
Bell, William McDonald  M 7020
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 27
Bicker, Roland  224812
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Chief Petty Officer Aged: 38
Buttle, James Fry  J 22045
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 30
Carrie, Alec Murray 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Lieutenant Commander Aged: 30
Commanding Officer
Casey, Robert Cameron  (RAN)
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Lieutenant Aged: 25
Clark, Walter Thomas  J 98756
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 21
Cleaver, Edward George  K 58802
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 27
Clough, Nelson Orlando  J 39878
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Signalman Aged: 26
Cowling, Albert George  K 18120
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Stoker Aged: 31
Dearing, Leonard Andree Percy  J 78620
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 23
Dennis, William Francis  M 12651
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Electrical Artificer 2nd Class Aged: 30
Dixon, Reginald Charles  231628
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Aged: 37
Duggan, Albert Frederick Harvey  J 62085
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 24
Edden, Thomas Henry  M 14517
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 25
Erskine, William  K 63811
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Stoker Aged: 24
Joined with Service Number SS 120628 before signing for extended engagement and changing to K63811.
Evans, Albert  J 96697
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 21
Feltham, Frank  K 57863 Born: 27th Jan, 1902. 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 23
RN DoB 27/07/1901
Foley, John Frederick  J 48199
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 26
Gardner, Charles  233422
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Chief Stoker Aged: 37
Gay, Albert Arthur  J 62961
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Telegraphist Aged: 24
Good, Cyril Sidney 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Warrant Engineer Aged: 44
Gore, Sidney John Ethelbert  DSM M 4730
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Aged: 34
In ADM 104 Series M4731
Harding, Gordon George  M 10953
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Aged: 35
Hewson, Philip  M 8641
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Ordnance Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 29
Hobday, Albert Edmund  236378
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Aged: 41
Jewell, Henry George  J 48749
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 25
Jones, Bertie William  J 20035
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Aged: 30
Kemble, George  K 10187 Born: 6th Feb, 1891. 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Stoker Aged: 34
RN DoB 06/02/1892
Kent, Arthur William  J 15182
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 29
Kidney, James  J53085
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 25
Law, John William  J65730
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 24
Littell, Robert Charles  M 35596
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Ordnance Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 31
Lovering, Ernest Thomas  J 24879
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 27
Manning, John  J 103109
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 20
Mansell, Cecil George Cobden  K 60530
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 24
Martin, Charles James  J 90561
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 23
Millard, Harold  K 62220
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 22
Morgan, George Petvin  239799
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Aged: 34
Morrisey, James  K 62857
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 20
Moyse, Victor Charles  J 23751
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 27
Neighbour, Herbert Edward  J 89919
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 23
Nichols, David Richard  K 57987
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 25
Nicholson, William Frederick  J 19870
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 29
Pearson, William Adolphus  J 42467 Born: 4th May, 1901. 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 24
RN DoB 04/05/1899.
Philpott, Thomas Walker 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Lieutenant Aged: 24
Price, William Frederick  J 25784
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 27
Sayers, Charles Alfred  J 31401
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 26
Smith, Frederick William  J 9944
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Petty Officer Telegraphist Aged: 30
Spratley, Percival  J 69385
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Telegraphist Aged: 24
Storey, Charles Clarence  K 58715
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 31
Styles, Reginald Percy  J 28159
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 27
Tamblin, William John  J 94557
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 37
Taylor, Robert  J 41914
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 26
Thorpe, Charles Arthur Robert 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Lieutenant Aged: 26
Commander of M2
Turner, Walter Isaac  J 36092
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Signalman Aged: 26
Vaughan, William Charles Albert  J 32281
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 26
Washington, Sidney William  J 24170
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 27
Webster, Albert Ernest  J 92635
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Leading Seaman Aged: 23
Williams, Henry Richard  K 56132 Born: 24th Mar, 1903. 
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 22
RN DoB 24/03/1901
Wright, Charles Edwin  L 12944
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Steward Aged: 22
Wright, Frederick George  J 99863
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Able Seaman Aged: 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

Comment by: John Harlow on November 15th, 2022

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'.

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