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Clyde (N 12)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: River 2
Fate: Sold on 30th July 1946 and scrapped at Durban.
Clyde
Clyde
Clyde (N 12)
Clyde (N 12)
Pistons from the Port engine of HMS Clyde
Pistons from the Port engine of HMS Clyde

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Commanders
1936: Commander   Hugo Meynell Cyril Ionides
1938: Lieutenant Commander   William Eric Banks
1940: Lieutenant Commander   R L S Gaisford
1940: Lieutenant Commander   David Caldicott Ingram
1940: Commander   David Caldicott Ingram
1942: Lieutenant   Russell Stanhope Brookes DSC
1944: Lieutenant   Raymond Henry Bull DSC
1945: Lieutenant   David Sivewright Brown (RNVR)

1935-1936: Portsmouth. 1936-1939: Mediterranean. 1939 - 8th Flotilla: Gibraltar. 1940 - 6th Flotilla: HMS Titania, Blyth. 1941 - 2nd Flotilla: Rosyth. 1941 - 8th Flotilla: HMS Maidstone, Gibraltar. 1944: Eastern Fleet.

1939 - Patrolled the Freetown-Natal Route in the South Atlantic.

1940-1941 - Served in Home Waters.

April-June 1940 - Was part of the submarine force which was in the Kattegat and off the coast of Norway during the German invasion of Norway.

1941-1944 - Served in the Mediterranean sinking two ships of 4,300 tons.

April/October/November 1942 - "Magic Carpet" run to Malta.

1944 onwards Eastern Fleet.

Adoption

By Dr Peter Schofield

Dumfries and Galloway Standard, Wednesday 10 March 1943
HMS Clyde was adopted by the Stewartry on Monday. A crest of HMS Clyde was presented to the county and the county gifted a bronze plaque bearing the county arms and an appropriate inscription. The ceremony took place in the Town Hall Castle-Douglas. The plaque to Clyde was presented to Captain Maitland-Kirwan and was to be placed in the conning tower of the submarine. The plaque bore the following inscription: 'This plaque is presented to HMS Clyde to commemorate her adoption by the citizens of the Stewartry during Warship Week.' At the top of the plaque the county arms were cut out in relief. It was hoped that one day the presentation and adoption plaques would be together again (meaning Clyde would survive the war). The greatest care would be taken of the adoption plaque and it would remind them of the great effort made by every section of the community to raise the enormous sum of money and the Clyde was their submarine. He assured Captain Kirwan that the crest would be one of their most precious and valued possessions.

Events

 15-05-1933   Laid Down
 15-03-1934   Launched
 12-04-1935   Completed
 13-05-1940   HMS Clyde attacks the German armed merchant cruiser Widder with gunfire off Stadlandet, Norway but was out gunned and Clyde had to break of the attack.
 20-06-1940   About 40 nautical miles north-west of the island of Halten, Norway. HMS Clyde hit the German battleship Gneisenau in the bow with one torpedo, putting her out of action for many months.

Lt. Cdr. D. Ingram was awarded the DSC. for the action.
 16-07-1940   HMS Clyde sinks the Norwegian fishing vessel SF 52 with gunfire east of Alesund, Norway.
 22-07-1940   West of Bergen, Norway HMS Clyde fires 6 torpedoes at what is thought to be and enemy submarine. Luckily the torpedoes miss as they we aimed against HMS Truant.
 01-06-1941   HMS Clyde torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant San Marco about 5 nautical miles east of Cape Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy.
 08-06-1941   HMS Clyde sinks the Italian merchant Sturla with gunfire in the Golfo di Policastro about 5 nautical miles from Maratea.
 14-06-1941   HMS Clyde sinks the Italian sailing vessel/auxiliary patrol vessel V 125/Giovanni Bottigliere with gunfire about 20 nautical miles south of Spartivento Sardo, Sardinia, Italy.
 28-09-1941   HMS Clyde unsuccessfully attacks the German submarine U-67 in Tarafal Bay, Cape Verde Islands.
 02-03-1945   HMS Clyde sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with scuttling charges of the west coast of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
 04-03-1945   HMS Clyde sinks the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Kiku Maru with gunfire off the west coast of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
 15-05-1945   HMS Clyde sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.
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