HDML 1065

Blackmore, Bideford, Devon 16/7/41

Known Crew

TSLt John Edward Branch RNVR TSLt 30/4/42 HMS Edinburgh Castle (Freetown Sierra Leone) for MLs 17/8/42 108th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer HDML 1065 4/43 HMS Philoctetes II (Freetown Sierra Leone) 51st ML Flotilla Commanding Officer ML100 2/6/44. Operation Neptune TLt 30/10/44 Commanding Officer ML106 17/4/45
TSLt C M Risk RNVR TSLt 4/3/43 HMS Melampus (Base at Dakar) 108th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer HDML 1065 25/3/44 Commanding Officer HDML 1310 22/11/44 TLt 4/3/45
TSLt H A Shearring RNVR TSLt 13/2/44 108th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer HDML 1065 28/8/44 HMS Braganza (Bombay)
TSLt A G Sturrock TASLt First Lieutenant ML 113 19/12/43 TSLt 28/11/43 108th ML Flotilla HDML 1065 HMS Philoctetes II (Freetown Sierra Leone) 1944
Ord Cornelis Dougan C/JX 259007. Died by drowning 26/09/1941, aged 26. Son of Cornelis and Margaret Dougan

Wartime Activities

1/1/42 108th ML Flotilla
Based at Freetown, Sierra Leone
ML 1044, ML 1050, ML 1065 and ML 1066 have been delivered.
ML 1028, ML 1076, ML 1077and ML 1078 on the Clyde awaiting freighting
3/11/42 ML 279, ML 277, ML 1065 and HMS Spaniard arrived at Bathurst
1/3/43 ML 1065 and ML 1066 sailed from Bathurst and arrived in Dakar
17/2/43 ML 287 and ML 1065 sailed from Dakar for Bathurst arriving the same day
30/3/43 ML 1065 and ML 1066 sailed from Port Etienne escorting three merchant vessels to Dakar
1/4/43 ML 1065 and ML 1066 arrived in Dakar from Port Etienne escorting SS Mary Kingsley, Buffle, and Persistante
2/4/43 HMS Orfasy with ML 1065 and ML 1066 sailed from Dakar escorting SS Medie II and SS Finisterre to meet HMS Burdock and HMS Inkpen escorting SS Tovelil from Bathurst and subsequently to join Convoy SL 127.
3/4/43 ML 1065 and ML 1066 arrived Bathurst from Port Etienne escorting SS Alsace

Post War History

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