HDML 1010
Anderson Rigden & Perkins, Whitstable 18/5/41
London Gazette 21/11/44 – For a series of actions in the Channel over a period of two years
- MID Sea William Frank Sharp LT/JX384493
Known Crew
- Lt E Bowden RNVR Commanding Officer HDML 1010 10/7/42
- TLt E H V Creasy RNVR ML 237 18/7/43 TLt 7/8/43 Commanding Officer HDML 1010 23/2/44 HMS Philoctetes II 1944 (Freetown, Sierra Leone) Commanding Officer ML 290 27/11/44
- TSkipper W A Langdon RNR TSkipper 1/1/41 Commanding Officer HDML 1010 20/9/44
- TSkipper N W F Mountain RNR TSkipper 1/4/44 First Lieutenant HDML 1010 20/9/44 MFV 1511
- TSkipper A E Bidle RNR TSkipper 1/8/42 Trawler HMS Incholm 1944 HDML 1010 26/3/45
- TSLt Donald McLean RNVR TSLt HMS Wildfire (Sheerness) for MLs 10/11/41 105th ML Flotilla Based at Sheerness HDML 1010 1/10/42 Commanding Officer HDML 1243 12/5/43 TLt 1/12/43 Commanding Officer HDML 1246 20/1/44 28th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer ML 307 12/10/44 Wind up of the war in Europe DSC
- Sea William Frank Sharp LT/JX384493 HDML 1010 For a series of actions in the Channel over a period of two years MID
Wartime Activities
- 1/7/41 105th ML Flotilla – Based at Sheerness on completion – ML 1001, ML 1010, ML 1020, ML 1021, ML 1024, ML 1036 and ML 1070. ML 1008 joins by end of 1941
- 1/42 105th ML Flotilla – Based at Sheerness
- ML 1001 on the Thames refitting, to complete 12th January
- ML 1008, ML 1010, ML 1020 and ML 1021 repairing, to complete 10th January
- ML 1024, ML 1036 and ML 1070 at Sheerness repairing, to complete 8th January
- 10/42 Based at HMS Orlando, Greenock
- A series of actions in the Channel over two years (21/11/44)
- Protection of Weymouth Anchorage during the build up to Operation Neptune
Post War History
- Fast Despatch Boat = FDB59
- 14/6/48 Sold
