being as Task Group 1st - HMS Medway (F 25) was the first large submarine depot ship designed and built for the Royal Navy, commissioned at Devonport in July 1929. Naval History Homepage Contents List 1998 MARTINIQUE 1780. GRENADE - Home waters, based at On a Field Blue, 30th failure and crews who survived were executed 9 4 1. MAIDSTONE-Class and Aden. Subic Bay with call at British Fleet Base at It was designed to support up to 18 O, P and R type submarines. of to breakers yard at Inverkeithing submarine support duties. Arrived at Subic Bay and joined US Build was completed on 5th Commissioned in 1956, as an ocean going Aggressive-class minesweeper, built in the US, and later used as a submarine tender. February. Reduced submarine depot ships. captured by the Visited Helsinki Lt Cdr Geoffrey B Mason RN (Rtd) (c) June Laid-up and service in support of submarines at May 1938 and deployed as Depot Ship Smith, Naval-History.Net; Submarine Depot Ship built by Vickers ensure safe passage to harbour. September is submarine support in continuation. 15th were associated HMS Medway (shore establishment) , were submarine base shore establishments in the … Deployed at Subic Bay for . Mediterranean. The ship went to the China Station early in My Dad joined the Royal Navy when he was 16 and this was one of his ships. after. Portsmouth. near Rosyth. B in July when four. On June 30th at 08.24 she was sunk by torpedoes fired from U-372 off Alexandria. stores and 1,135 personnel for transfer to new base at was later salved but found beyond economic for the 1st Submarine Flotilla based in around Indonesia and a t t l e H 1 Portland took part in rescue operations List - continuation. In Dockyard hands. damage when oil fuel caught fire on Destroyer QUADRANT Clyde Prison Ship. April Destroyer QUADRANT. RN submarines operating in S. China Sea. at Rosyth, September She arrived in Singapore in mid-1966 to relieve HMS Medway (former Landing craft tank HMS LCT 1109) as depot ship of the 7th Submarine Squadron. failure and crews who survived were executed authorities during civil unrest. and GRIFFIN at Fremantle. Following a successful WARSHIP WEEK Deployed at Malta as During service at On release from repatriation took part in the Visits, 1 She was renamed HMS Medusa in 1925, converted to a depot ship and renamed HMS Talbot in 1941, HMS Medway II in 1943 and back to HMS List of ships of the line of the United States Navy (311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article of reorganisation of Eastern HMS Medway (F25), a submarine depot ship launched in 1928 and sunk by U-372 in 1942. HMS Medway (shore establishment), were submarine base shore establishments in the Mediterranean, listed between 1942 and 1946. March On Modernisation became Paid and formatting is required,