| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | Written off as a constructive total loss 14 July 1946 and sold for breaking up to Ward, of Briton Ferry. |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Michael Frederic Roberts Ainslie | DSC MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | David Swanston | DSC |
Ex P71
1942-1943: Mediterranean.
1944-1945: Indian Ocean.
Roll of Honour |
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| Motteram, Thomas George |
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| 'HMS Shakespeare which was engaged in a surface gun action with a Japanese minesweeper and aircraft off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean on 3rd January 1945. Several Members of the guns crew were wounded during the extended action and two of the wounded subsequently died of their wounds. Thomas Motteram was the son of Edward and Sarah Jane Motteram. He was severely wounded in the action having been hit in the leg by a shell. He died of his wounds and was buried at sea.' |
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| Taylor, George |
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| HMS Shakespeare which was engaged in a surface gun action with a Japanese minesweeper and aircraft off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean on 3rd January 1945. Several Members of the guns crew were wounded during the extended action and two of the wounded subsequently died of their wounds. George Taylor was the son of Jervis and Annie Taylor. He was mortally wounded in his left temple, shrapnel splinter wounds while part of a bucket chain by the gun tower. He died of his wounds and was buried at sea |
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| 13-11-1940 | Laid Down |
| 10-07-1942 | Completed |
| 08-12-1942 | Launched |
| 13-05-1943 | HMS Shakespeare sinks the Italian sailing vessels Sant' Anna M. and Adelina with gunfire off the north-east coast of Sardinia. |
| 06-08-1943 | While on patrol north-west of Ustica, HMS Shakespeare fires three torpedoes at what is identified as an Italian light cruiser. All torpedoes missed their target. |
| 07-09-1943 | HMS Shakespeare torpedoes and sinks the Italian submarine Velella about 18 nautical miles east of Licosa Island, south of Salerno, Italy. There were no survivors. |
| 26-10-1943 | HMS Shakespeare sinks the Greek sailing vessel Aghios Konstantinos 23 nautical miles north-east of Andros, Greece. |
| 03-11-1943 | HMS Shakespeare sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Kos, Greece. |
| 03-12-1943 | HMS Shakespeare sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Kos, Greece. |
| 31-12-1944 | HMS Shakespeare torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Unryu Maru east of Port Blair, Andaman Islands. |
| 03-01-1945 | HMS Shakespeare and the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 1 engage each other with gunfire off the Nancowry Strait, Nicobar Islands. Both ships are damaged in the engagement. |
| 03-01-1945 | Damaged by Japanese gunfire and aircraft bombs off the Andaman Islands |
| 14-07-1946 | Written off as a constructive total loss and sold for breaking up to Ward, of Briton Ferry. |
| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. | |
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| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. | |
Woven between the recipes in this book are true facts and tid-bits about the food, the cooks and general life aboard ship.
Along with the recipes, this book aims to preserve a segment of British history, Royal Navy social history, which is fading all too quickly and would otherwise be lost in the grey sea-mists of oblivion.
18 pages added or updated in the last 4 month
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