HDML 1024
Sittingbourne Shipbuilding Company, Kent 22/3/41
Known Crew
- TLt H A Payne RNVR TSLt HMS Edinburgh Castle (Freetown, Sierra Leone) for MLs 10/41 Commanding Officer HDML 1024 18/6/43 TLt 28/6/43 7th ML Flotilla Based on Portsmouth Commanding Officer ML 150 7/2/44 Operation Neptune – Invasion of Normandy
- TSLt J C Dunn RNVR TSLt 13/11/41 Commanding Officer HDML 1391 8/11/43 Commanding Officer HDML 1024 18/1/44 TLt 13/5/44 ML 492
- TSLt H M Albone RNVR TSLt 17/4/41 HMS Wildfire (Sheerness) for MLs 7/7/41 105th ML Flotilla HDML 1024 7/7/41 Commanding Officer ML 116 7/8/43 HMS Aggressive (Newhaven) TLt 17/10/43
- ChSkipper A Duthie RNR act ChSkipper 5/8/43 ChSkipper 5/8/44 Commanding Officer HDML 1024 1/12/44
Wartime Activities
- 1/1/41 At Chatham for training duties
1/7/41 105th ML Flotilla
Based 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 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
Passage to Gibraltar under sail
Mediterranean
Anti Submarine patrols off Oran and Algiers
Air Safety Launch = ASL3
Post War History
- 1946 Sold Yacht = Miarka
- 1995 = Mavala IV, Based in Cannes
