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partly dedicated to my father,
Ordnance Artificer George Smith (left, at Gibraltar in 1942,
before Malta convoy Operation 'Pedestal'), lost in the sinking of HMS
Charybdis off the Brittany coast on 23rd October 1943. Few
men survived and just a handful of bodies were washed ashore on
Guernsey.
When they were buried by the German
authorities, thousand's of Channel Islander's attended, and ever since,
Guernsey has commemorated the cruiser's loss, usually with a Royal Navy
guardship present - an unusual honour given the thousands of British
warships and auxiliaries sunk in two World Wars alone.
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©Guernsey Post
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In 2003, Guernsey Post issued this stamp
bearing a painting of HMS Charybdis as well as Hunt-class escort
destroyer HMS Limbourne, torpedoed at the same time (by T-type small
destroyers, not E-boats as often described). I am grateful to Guernsey
Post for permission to reproduce this rather beautiful stamp.
.... it is also dedicated to my grandfather, Chief Yeoman of Signals
George Smith DSM. He joined the Royal Navy in 1904, and was
sunk twice in World War 1 - destroyer HMS Medusa and cruiser HMS
Cassandra.  Post-war, he served with the North Russian Expeditionary
Force 1919, cruised
the Baltic in 1921, served on HMS Curlew on the America
& West Indies Station 1922-25 and HMS Durban on the China Station
in 1926-28. He joined the Royal
Naval Shore Signal Service in 1928 and served as a Chief Officer
through World War 2 and on to 1948.
He was an early and avid photographer, and
perhaps because of his experiences as a Signalman, a natural
communicator. A lovely man, I am proud to continue making all his work
available on the Internet. He would have appreciated and understood the
value of the Web.
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Naval History and the Internet
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 'an invaluable reference book on the war at sea
(in World War 2) .... as well as an informative guide to naval
strategy', Lloyds List |
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war', Francois Heisbourg, Director, International Institute
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'excellent source for naval history of the
First and Second World Wars, campaign summaries and more.' - Imperial
War Museum (London)
'an absolutely splendid site, invaluable for
unravelling the intricacies of naval warfare - the perfect complement
to the more general history of the wars' - Bamber Gascoigne
of University Challenge, now
www.historyworld.net.
'a superb introduction to the war at sea and
the Royal Navy in particular'. Also listed in the author's
Top Ten Military Sites - A Guide to Military History on the
Internet by Simon Fowler, Pen & Sword 2007
'simply one of the most
comprehensive sources of Royal Naval historical information online
......' - Britain at War, February 2008
'arguable the best
military history site currently online .....' -
BBC family
history magazine Who Do You Think You Are, June 2008
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ROYAL
& DOMINION NAVY CASUALTIES, pre-1914-2008
by Name and Date/Ship, including Royal Marines
totalling over 125,000 names
by Don Kindell, US
Researcher
"What it is all
about"
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UNITED STATES NAVY & COAST GUARD CASUALTIES,
World War 1
by Name, Date/Ship, Branches
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Abbate-Ayers,
Babb-Byxbee,
Cads-Cygan,
D'Abreu-Dykeman,
Eades-Ezell,
Faas-Furrer,
Gadberry-Gwin,
Haag-Hyre,
Ide-Justesen,
Kaaukea-Kynock,
La Combe-Lyons,
MacDonald-Mytro,
O'Rourke-Quota,
Raasch-Ryrie,
Sabol-Szyrowinski,
Taber-Von Schrader,
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1917 -
1918 |
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US Coast Guard -
Naval Aviation
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Medics on Western Front
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Submariners
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WORLD WAR 1, 1914-18
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BACKGROUND
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ROAD
TO WAR, Franco-Prussian War to Sarajevo, 1871-1914
EXPANSION and
ORGANISATION of the IMPERIAL GERMAN NAVY
1897-1918 - A Note
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MEN
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CASUALTY LISTS
Royal Navy and Dominion Navies, 1914-1918
by
Don Kindell
United States Navy
& Coast Guard, 1917-18 in
full
French Navy - 25 Sailors commemorated in a New York Cemetery
New
Badges of Rank of Royal Navy Officers, Men
and Boys
Some of the Men who served:
George
W Smith DSM (left), Chief Yeomen of Signals,
1888-1977, his service record
Samuel
R Hitchin, First Mate, SS Highland
Brae, POW on German auxiliary Kronprinz Wilhelm
John
R Hunter, Lieutenant RNVR, Canadian Motor
Launch skipper, photographic record
William T
G Jones, Seaman, lost with collier SS
Mersario, 1 October 1917
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SHIPS
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British Vessels Lost at Sea
including
Naval,
Merchant
Ships and
Fishing Vessels, from "British Vessels Lost at Sea,
1914-18", HMSO
British - Elco-built Motor Launches
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NAVIES
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Austro-Hungarian Navy
French Navy
Hellenic
or Greek Navy
Imperial Japanese Navy
Turkish
or Ottoman Navy
United
States Navy, also
Navy
and Coast Guard Casualties
Officers and Enlisted Ranks
Medal of Honor, 1915-1918
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Eastern Front
and
Baltic Sea 1914-18
Revised
Mediterranean, including
Turkish Waters & Black Sea, 1914-18
Revised
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MEDALS
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Victoria
Cross at Sea, including RN Division 1914-19
Albert Medal at Sea, including Merchant Navy
1915-1919
Medal of Honor, US Navy and
Marine Corps 1915-1918
Pour le Merité,
the "Blue Max", Imperial German Navy
including naval aviation
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The Navy
Everywhere,
by Conrad Gato - the RN in Africa, E. Europe,
Middle East
On the Coast of France:
United States
Naval Forces in French Waters by
Joseph
Husband, Ensign, USNRF
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INTER-WAR, 1918-39
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WORLD
WAR 2, 1939-45
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MEN
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CASUALTY
LISTS of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies, 1939-1945
by
Don Kindell
Some of the Men who served:
George Smith
(left), CPO/Ordnance Artificer, 1916-43, his
service record
Horace
Carswell
DSM, MM, BEM, Chief Steward, and Russian
Convoy PQ.17
Sidney Kerslake
RNR, Leading Seaman, 1920-99,
Norwegian campaign and Russian Convoys
Edward Palmer
BEM, Coxswain, Naval
Harbourmaster, attack on HMS Foyle Bank July 1940
Harold Siddall,
Stoker, 1916-97, from
Scapa Flow to Crete, and on to a German Stalag
Henry Sutton, Petty Officer,
HMS
Blackpool, and his Letter from Normandy, June 1944
Frank Taylor,
Able Seaman, HMS Scarab, Mediterranean service
1943-44
Maurice Whiteing,
Leading Air Mechanic, HMS
Indomitable, Far East, 1944-1945, photographs
Basil
Woolf, MID, Petty
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SHIPS
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SERVICE
HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS
in WORLD WAR 2
including Class
background
by
Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Mason, RN (Rtd)
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Over 1,000 histories, covering all British
and Dominion capital ships, aircraft carriers,
cruisers and destroyers, plus many submarines, sloops, frigates,
corvettes and other vessels. Includes Royal Navy ships manned by Allied
Navies. By name:
Abdiel-Avon
Vale -
Badsworth-Buxton -
Cadmus-Cygnet -
Dainty-Durban -
Eagle-Express -
Falmouth-Fury -
Galatea-Gurkha -
Hadleigh Castle-Hyperion -
Ibis-Ivanhoe -
Jackal-Jupiter -
Kanaris-Kujawiak -
La Combattante-Lydd -
MacKay-Myrmidon -
Nabob-Nubian -
Oakley-Oxlip -
P.32-Pytchley -
Quadrant-Quorn -
Racehorse-Rye -
Sabre-Sydney -
Tactician-Tyrian -
Uganda-Utmost -
Valentine-Voyager -
Wager-Wryneck -
York -
Zambesi-Zulu
also
by Type and Class.
Plus
Class background
for
capital ships, aircraft carriers, cruisers
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Major BRITISH WARSHIP
LOSSES with commanding officers, loss
locations and casualties
Capital ships,
aircraft carriers,
cruisers,
destroyers & escort destroyers, submarines, including
X-craft
British
Naval Losses
by Name, Date, Theatre,
Type of ship, from "British Vessels Lost at
Sea, 1939-45", HMSO
HMS
Indomitable in the Far East 1944-45, a photographic
record
HMS Charybdis:
All
in a Day's Work - Her
Career
by 'Rocky' Royle
Her Loss and Commemoration, by the Charybdis
Association
Account of
Her Loss
from Captured German Archives
Capture of British Yard
Minesweeper BYMS-72, 1943 Aegean
Campaign, by Cdr
Bruhn USN
HM Harbour Defence
Motor Launch No.1001, RN and later
career
Thames Lighters at War, off the
British & US Normandy beaches
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Naval Life and Customs
by Lt-Cdr John
Irving RN, a gem of a book
Ranks, Trades,
Pay & Allowances, Badges of Rank 1942
Warrant
Officers in the Royal Navy - a history
Officer/Rating Relationships in
the Royal Navy 1941-1972
Pennant Numbers
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with Addendum on the Pacific 1944-45, all by Lt Cdr G
Mason
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NAVAL and MILITARY
CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES
by Type of Warfare,
Navies, Theatres
by
Gordon Smith
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BRITISH
and OTHER NAVIES in WORLD WAR 2 DAY-BY-DAY
Ship
Movements, Actions, Losses
by
Don Kindell
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1939
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British
Navy (August) - August -
British, French, German, Polish Navies, USN in Europe (September)
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September to December
1940
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January to May - British, French, German,
Italian, Greek, Yugoslavian Navies (June) -
June
to December
1941 - British & German Navies (January) -
January
to June
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British Navy
(July)
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July
to December
1942 -
British
Navy (January) -
January to March -
April-December (outline only)
1943
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January-December,
1944 -
January-December,
1945 -
January-April (all outline only)
the above outlines are expanded in:
ADMIRALTY WAR DIARIES
all
New
HOME FLEET, Commander-in-Chief
- April-December 1942,
January-December
1943,
January-December
1944, January-July
1945 (including destroyers)
DESTROYER COMMAND, Home Fleet - April-December
1942, January-December
1943, January-December
1944
EASTERN FLEET -
April-June,
December (only) 1942
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January-December 1943
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ROYAL, DOMINION & ALLIED
NAVIES in WORLD
WAR 2
Month-by-Month
across all Theatres
by
Gordon Smith
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Beginning & End,
Battle Honours, Victoria Cross at Sea, 1939-45
1939
- Atlantic & Europe at
the Start -
Battle of Atlantic starts, River Plate
1940
- Invasion of Norway,
Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk -
Italy at war, France falls -
Mediterranean at the Start -
Battle of Britain -
U-boats in Atlantic, Taranto
1941 - Cape Matapan, Crete, Hunt for
'Bismarck'
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Invasion of Russia, Malta Convoys
- Indian &
Pacific Oceans at the Start -
Pearl Harbor, 'Repulse' & 'Prince of Wales'
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Royal Navy, Royal Marine, Single-Ship Battle Honours 1939-45,
with links to Campaigns
Naval-related Code Names
- Alphabetically - Chronologically
Royal Navy Minelaying
Operations
both by Lt Cdr G Mason
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CONVOYS
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CONVOY ESCORT MOVEMENTS of
ROYAL and DOMINON NAVY VESSELS
by
Don Kindell
including
Armed
Merchant Cruisers, Canadian
Corvettes
THE SUPPLY OF MALTA 1940-1942, including the Malta Convoys
ROUTE
TO THE EAST
- the WS (Winston’s Special) Convoys, both by
the late Arnold
Hague
Russian Convoys
including Russian Front Summary Maps
Allied Convoy Codes, courtesy
HyperWar
Foundation
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Victoria Cross at Sea, 1940-45
George
Cross & Albert Medal
at Sea, 1939-45
Medal of Honor
at Sea, 1941-45
Imperial
Japanese Navy and Order of the Golden Kite
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Allied
Anti-Submarine Weapons -
A Note
High
Frequency Radio Direction Finding -
HF/DF or Huff Duff
New
Zealand's Contribution to
Radar Development
Hydrographic
Survey Work in the RN up to the 1980's,
all by Lt Cdr G Mason
The Early Days of Wireless at
Sea by
Louis C. Kleber
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MAPS, etc
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Campaign
and Battle Maps, World
Wars 1 & 2, Falklands War
Posters of
the Royal Navy
in World War 2
Service Magazines
of the World's Forces
Victory
Celebrations
in London, June 1946
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1945-present
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