HDML 1333
Nichol, Durban, South Africa 15/9/44
London Gazette 22/4/47 – For patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender
- DSC TSLt Geoffrey Donald Luton RNVR
- MID TSLt John Alexander Mackenzie Pitcairn
- MID AB L G Hewitson
- MID Sea A E Essery LT/JX355760
Known Crew
- TLt T G Edmunds RNVR Commanding Officer HDML 1300 21/12/42 TLt 5/6/43 ML 854 Commanding Officer HDML 1333 11/44
- TSLt Geoffrey Donald Luton RNVR TASLt 1/8/44 HDML 1333 11/44 TSLt 1/2/45 For patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender DSC
- TSLt John Alexander Mackenzie Pitcairn RNVR Mid 31/3/44 HMS Midge (Great Yarmouth) TASLt 21/1/45 MTB 738 1/2/45 HDML 1333 For patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender MID
- AB L G Hewitson HDML 1333 For patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender MID
- Sea A E Essery LT/JX355760 HDML 1333 For patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender MID
- StoM Alan Skelton C/SKX816132
Hong Kong Flotilla
- Sea Ken Greenway P/JX. 873233
- Sea Ivan Jones P/JX923093
Wartime Activities
- 9/9/45 Operation Zipper – Invasion of Malaya at Morib Beachhead
- Patrols off Sumatra after the Japanese surrender
Post War History
- ML 3505
- Hong Kong Flotilla
- 17/5/58 Malayan = Sri Pahang
- 1965 Deactivated
Memory of StoM Alan Skelton…
“On arrival at Singapore on 4th September 1948 I was told “as you are spare you are being put in made up crew for Harbour Defence Motor Launch 1333″. The crew made up from HMS London was 1 stoker, 8 seamen, 1 petty officer and a 19 year old midshipman as Captain. We spent the next 10/12 weeks traversing the East Coast of Malaya. We spent our time going up rivers and checking off shore islands for gun runners to the Malaysian Terrorists, mostly coming from Siam. We were kept at sea during this period and were supplied by HMS Surprise and given information by Army Spotter planes.”
