HDML 1085
Sussex Shipbuilding Company, Shoreham, Sussex 16/9/41
London Gazette 14/6/45 – Birthday Honours 1945
- DSC TLtCdr Harry Mannix Nees RNZNVR
- MID TLt Kenneth Metcalfe Banks RNVR
- MID POEng Jack Jacob Cotton LT/KX160104
Known Crew
- TLtCdr Harry Mannix Nees RNZNVR TLt, 31/1/41 11th ML Flotilla 22/9/41 (230?) 24th ML Flotilla 3/43 ML 230 For Operation Jubilee – Raid on Dieppe 19/8/42 MID TLtCdr ML 1085 3/45 Birthday Honours 1945 DSC
- TLt Kenneth Metcalfe Banks RNVR TSLt HMS St Christopher for MLs 25/8/41 TLt 8/10/42 HMS Iron Duke for MLs 11/42 Commanding Officer ML 1085 8/1/43 Birthday Honours 1945 MID
- TSLt E T Melly RNVR TSLt 26/8/43 150th ML Flotilla ML 1085 11/44
- POEng Jack Jacob Cotton LT/KX160104 HDML 1085 Birthday Honours 1945 MID
Wartime Activities
- 1/1/42 109th ML Flotilla
Based at Scapa Flow
ML 1047, ML 1054, ML 1055, ML 1056, ML 1060, ML 1075, ML 1081 and ML 1085 - 1/42 At Scapa Flow
- 6/44 Operation Neptune Invasion of Normandy
150th ML Flotilla
ML1055, ML1056, ML1060, ML1081, ML1085, ML1091, ML1279, ML1382, ML1390
Post War History
- 1945 Survey Motor Launch = SML 4
- 8-9/45 With HMS Franklin and SML 4, surveyed the Weser Estuary and the approaches to Bremen
- 1949 SML 324
- 9/6/59 Sold
- 1973 = Shearwater Operated by Arisaig Marine as a ferry serving the Isles of Eigg, Muck, Rum, Canna or even Soay or Skye
- 2002 Transferred to new owners in Inverness