HDML 1160

Sittingbourne Shipbuilding Company, Kent 4/6/42

London Gazette 1/1/44 – New Years Honours List 1944

  • MID TLt Gordon Thomas Holden RNVR

Known Crew

  • TLt Gordon Thomas Holden RNVR TLt 31/10/41 Commanding Officer HDML 1160 25/5/42 New Years Honours List 1944 MID HMS Edinburgh Castle (Freetown, Sierra Leone) for MLs 8/42 15th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer ML 212 19/4/44 For minesweeping from the Humber to Heligoland and from there to Cuxhaven, Hamburg and Bremerhaven MID
  • TSLt K D King RNVR TSLt 13/11/42 Commanding Officer HDML 1160 14/3/43 ML 279 1944 HMS Irwell
  • TSLt J H Harland RNVR TSLt 10/3/44 Commanding Officer HDML 1160 3/7/44 ML 274
  • TSLt H F Sutton RNVR TSLt 14/7/44 Commanding Officer HDML 1160 18/10/44

Wartime Activities

  • 8/9/42 ML 1147 and ML 1160 joined West Africa Command from U.K. by freight
  • 28/12/42 ML 1076, ML 1077, ML 1160, and ML 1089 sailed from Freetown to carry out an A/S Sweep
  • 1/2/43 HMS Arran and ML 1160 sailed from Bathurst for Freetown escorting two merchant ships
  • 26/1/43 HMS Arran arrived Bathurst with ML 1089 and ML 1160
  • 3/2/43 HMS Arran and ML 1160 and ML 1089 arrived Freetown from Bathurst, escorting 2 merchant ships

Post War History

  • 22/12/45 Sold at Freetown, Sierra Leone
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