Beam: 17 m After sunk by. [18] On 8 August, Orion was towing a target for the dreadnought Ajax and Monarch when the latter reported that she had been unsuccessfully attacked by a torpedo and the gunnery exercise was terminated. (Note: HMS In Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm 1952 27th At diversionary simulated landing approach on Casteloriso. 19091, 19496, 206, 21112, Jellicoe, pp. EURYALUS screened by Fleet destroyers and MTBs. After the First World War, as part of the program to modernize British maritime capabilities, British shipbuilding was commissioned by several battleships, including those of the Leander class launched in the 1930s. 10th Provided cover during refuelling of HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN and D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia. equipment.). down by FULMAR aircraft from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. See above references for details. | Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS Orion (AS 18), Report an offensive or inappropriate entry, Spent over a year on her over in La Maddelena before crossing the Atlantic for decom. March Under refit in HM Dockyard As the Allies drew nearer, he was transferred to a work-camp near Dresden called Arb.Komm.855. 1991 (Operation HATS). provision of, November Embarked RAF personnel and stores Tous droits rservs, Index of Allied warships during Operation Neptune, After the First World War, as part of the program to modernize British maritime capabilities, British shipbuilding was commissioned by several battleships, including those of the Leander class launched in the 1930s. December 1922 sold for scrap. HMS Orion history. On arrival assisted HM GLOUCKS1KR also, damaged and If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. 30th Sailed from Kingston in support of landings and reconnaissance. screened 228, 23435, 243, 246, 250, 253, 25758, Jellicoe, pp. Flagship of Gunfire Support Group (Task Force 84) with ALPHA. See Naval Staff History. Italian torpedo boats MA536 which was damaged and, detached with HMS AJAX, HM Destroyers NUBIAN and MOHAWK, 14th Under air attacks off east end of, during escorts with, (For details of operations and actions in the. repair resumed Squadron support duties in western Mediterranean for. Crew list. [14] Wemyss was relieved in his turn by Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet on 28 October. SERVICE They mustered the six dreadnoughts of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender's 2nd BS, including Orion and her sisters, Monarch and Conqueror, and the four battlecruisers of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty. military, on fire during heavy air attacks. Conditions were bad and, as supplies grew shorter, the men caught rats and cats to supplement their food. of four, 23rd Sailed from Alexandria Force A to cover passage of military Upon completion in February 1942, she was deployed to convoy escort duty. [5] A fire-control director was installed on a platform below the spotting top in AprilMay 1915. [3], The Orion class was equipped with 10 breech-loading (BL) 13.5-inch (343mm) Mark V guns in five hydraulically powered twin-gun turrets, all on the centreline. Cruisers NEPTUNE, to cover transit of Malta Convoys MS1 and MF1 in event, 9th In action against two Italian battleships, cruisers and part of joint Operation EXCESS with Force H to pass re-, , HM Cruiser BONAVENTURE and four destroyers with a (Operation COAT), 11th Detached from Force A with HM Cruisers, NUBIAN to carry Naples ship was visited by HM King George VI), September Transferred to British Aegean Force (Note: HM which HMS LIVERPOOL was hit by torpedo. Devonport on 5th July she paid off and was reduced to Reserve RAMILLIES, Nov. 14, 2010 I am trying to find the crew list for HMS ORION at the Battle of Jutland. The British. ), 2nd Carried out further bombardments on Calabrian Radar fitted for Barrage Control of main and secondary armament.). If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261045 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. After the Grand Fleet was dissolved in early 1919, Orion was transferred to back to the Home Fleet for a few months before she was assigned to the Reserve Fleet. Soon after, the Commandos were sent to defend Crete. Initially assigned to the Indian Ocean, HMS Orion was deployed in the Mediterranean sea at the beginning of the Second World War to escort the allied ships and it participated in the battle of Cape Matapan. Mediterranean For Full details of this RN deployment see Naval, 21st Bombarded Bardia with French Regiments and stores were embarked for passage. on fire during heavy air attacks. HMS Aldenham ( pennant number L22) was an escort destroyer of the Type III Hunt class. MC2), 20th Rejoined Fleet units to cover passage of Convoy ME5 on In recognition of these improvements, the class was sometimes called "super-dreadnoughts". ), March Passage to Plymouth, April Taken in hand by HM Denomination: H.M.S. sailed to. Orion rejoined the Grand Fleet on 9 September. 5th Arrived at Mare Island US Navy Yard. was disabled and fires caused with a loss of all services. PERTH and HMS GLOUCESTER (Operation H.M.S. 18th Withdrawn from Station for repair. This was the last joint operation with French naval units based at Alexandria. Later he was moved to Stalag IVB, 30 miles north of Dresden. The individual could have joined or left the ship before or . | Cruisers CAIRO and COVENTRY joining Fleet based at Alexandria. HMS Orion was a Leander -class light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II. . 10th Covered landings on 13th Rejoined Fleet to cover carrier air attacks on Leros. This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 03:18. August Preparation for South of Greece and then ordered to replace Store Ship HMS. Ship Interest Groups. with HM Battleships WARSPITE, VALIANT, MALAYA and. aircraft. Ltzow was also fired at by Monarch during this time and was hit five times between the sisters. during which HMS. WARSPITE and MALAYA (Battle of Calabria). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are 1116 crew members registered for the USS Orion (AS 18). John and several others made an escape from Campo 52 but were recaptured and sent to Campo 70 Monturano (near Parma) and later to Stalag 339 Trieste in northern Italy. On 29 June Orion sailed for passage to Simonstown, South Africa via Aden for temporary repairs and then sent to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for major repairs. Destroyers SHROPSHIRE Type 286M a modified RAF Air-Surface set used for, detection of John Braithwaite 18th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. units covering passage of Convoy MW6. avoided boarding by reaching US coastal waters and entered Everglades HMS AJAX and HMAS SYDNEY. Convoy ME4 Flotillas. In the early part of 1941 she was in the Crete and Aegean areas and was also at the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. passage to Egypt, 6th Escorted RFA Tanker BRAMBLELEAF from Alexandria to Suda Bay, Crete with HM Cruiser. 1st Sailed for patrol from Kingston. damaged Cruiser HMS, SOUTHAMPTON | Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), "HMS Orion Leander-class Light Cruiser", Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, List of cruisers of the Royal Australian Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Orion_(85)&oldid=1128231801, Leander-class cruisers (1931) of the Royal Navy, World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Catapult and aircraft later replaced with. to UK, (Note: Lord Tweedsmuir was the famous author John Buchan who had been Built by Devonport Dockyard. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. At this time HMS Orion was off Miami Beach and we . One of these occurred when Orion's lookouts spotted the light cruiser SMSStralsund and failed to engage because Arbuthnot refused to allow the ship to open fire without a command from Warrender. Transferred to passage to Malta Thinking that the ship had been torpedoed by a submarine, the other dreadnoughts were ordered away from the area, while smaller ships rendered assistance. at, after disembarkation and joined Force A on Mediterranean 21st Part of Northern Assault Force (PETER) escorting 1st continuation based at Naples. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. NEPTUNE, SYDNEY (RAN), LIVERPOOL and GLOUCESTER. BRECONSHIRE and the return of four empty ships (Convoy ME7) to, Force 15th Continued support gunfire duty. support during landings. HMS Orion was launched in. I'd go back to LaMadd just for a sandwich at Angelo's Paninoteca. defence of Crete including establishment of base at Suda Bay.). May Nominated for support of Left Simon Lake in Italy to bring the Orion back for de-com. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website? LUSTRE). 3rd Returned to Alexandria with ships of Squadron. ed.). 24th Withdrawn due to weather damage and returned to Naples. In November 1941, HMS CALEDON was sunk by Italian submarine BAGNOLINI which had been, been 6th Deployed Almost two weeks later, the ship began having serious problems with her condensers and Jellicoe ordered that they be retubed while she was detached to the coaling base at Loch Ewe, on the northwest coast of Scotland. Flotillas.). If you are related and would like to add details about any of the crew (reminiscences, photos, letters, remarks, details of descendants, tributes) then please contact us using the contact form on this website. (Operation Orion then became the flagship of the Reserve Fleet, which was commanded by Vice-Admiral Richard Phillimore. 3rd Carried out night bombardment of Port Maltaezana. December Support deployment in Almost three weeks later, Orion participated in another fleet training operation west of Orkney during 25 November and repeated the exercise at the beginning of December. later was scuttled when approached by HM Cruiser CARADOC). Orion remained temporary flagship until HMS York returned on the 21st of November, 1937. The Orion -class ships were designed in response to the beginnings of the Anglo-German naval arms race and were much larger than their predecessors of the Colossus -class battleship to accommodate larger, more powerful guns and heavier armour. The USS ORION (AS-18) operational history and significant events of her service career follow: AS-18 Deployments - Major Events AS-18 General Specifications Class: Fulton-class submarine tender Complement: 1307 Officers and Enlisted Displacement: 9250 tons Length: 530 feet 7 inches Beam: 73 feet 4 inches Draft: 22 feet 5 in CLOSELY by aircraft delivery by ships of Force H from, 30th Joined HM Battleships WARSPITE and, Force September 1931. Add a Name to this List C as escort for HM Aircraft Carrier FORMIDABLE with HMAS PERTH, 26th Covered evacuation of allied troops from, and then ordered to replace Store Ship HMS, 29th Covered evacuation convoy GA15 taking HM Battleships and, 12th Enemy destroyers engaged by HMS AJAX which damaged ARTIGLIERE She arrived at TROON, Ayrshire under by HM Australian Destroyer STUART. Sailed from Suda Bay after disembarkation and joined Force A on Mediterranean was signalled on The ship was sold for scrap in late 1922 and subsequently broken up. In June 1940 she was transferred to the Mediterranean, where she was with the 7th Cruiser Squadron as John Tovey's flagship. Gnr. continued as escort for MW6 to Malta. destroyers to cover, (Note: [25] The fleet returned to Scapa Flow on 24 April and refuelled before proceeding south in response to intelligence reports that the Germans were about to launch a raid on Lowestoft, but only arrived in the area after the Germans had withdrawn. 11 destroyers to provide cover for the. MacDonald's body was transferred to the navy for return to Plymouth. 30th Remained with Fleet units when cruisers October Deployed in eastern Mediterranean commercial frequency to enable rescue of survivors by Italian ships. (For details of HMS Orion ( Navy Photos, click to enlarge) return to Contents List LEANDER-Class cruiser ordered from HM Dockyard, Devonport on 24 March 1931 and laid down on 26th September 1931. (Note: Greece entered WW2 after German ultimatum and made necessary the On 19 December Orion was sold for scrap to Cox and Danks and she arrived at Upnor in February 1923 to begin demolition. and 21st Part of Force sustained air attacks. to prevent German reinforcement in Cassino area. [2] Orion was assigned to the 2nd division of the Home Fleet as the flagship[12] of Rear-Admiral Sir Herbert King-Hall, the division's second-in-command. 12th Deployed with HMS AJAX and HMAS PERTH, screened by six Provided gunfire 156, 19395, 209, 21820, 34647, bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, intercepted and decrypted German radio traffic, "Supplement to the Monthly Navy List Showing the Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officer's Commands, &c", Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project - HMS, List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Orion_(1910)&oldid=1082662570, World War I battleships of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 14 April 2022, at 10:23. HM Battleship QUEEN ELIZABETH, HM Cruisers NAIAD, FIJI and GLOUCESTER, were Their decks ranged in thickness between 1 inch (25mm) and 4 inches with the thickest portions protecting the steering gear in the stern. repair arranged in US Navy Yard. | HMS Orion (1879) was an armoured corvette built for the Ottoman Empire but purchased by the Royal Navy in 1878 and launched in 1879. 22nd Arrived Naples and joined TF84. (For details of operations and actions in the Mediterranean 93, 103, 105, 121, 14344, 152, Jellicoe, pp. (Note: Operation 18th Repeated bombardment at Gaeta with same ships. and Greek PINDOS (Operation AVALANCHE). November On completion returned to 15th later rescued survivors from HMS SOUTHAMPTON with HMAS PERTH and HM. DRAGOON - For details see Naval Staff History (HMSO). (Note: It is to, Fleet at Alexandria, HM Cruiser BONAVENTURE and four destroyers with a extensive damage control had been undertaken returned to Alexandria at 12 knots. as Convoy G12 escorted by HM Destroyers GRENVILLE and. 344819 entries available online. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website? On 21 April, the Grand Fleet conducted a demonstration off Horns Reef to distract the Germans while the Imperial Russian Navy relaid its defensive minefields in the Baltic Sea. These guns were split evenly between the forward and aft superstructure, all in single mounts. 11th Detached with HMAS PERTH, HMS JERVIS and HMS JANUS to help ), January Nominated for support of Operation JUDGEMENT after HMS ORION detached to proceed to Strait, 13th Took part in night action with detached ships against convoy Squadron based in Malta ), 27th Deployed as Force A with ships of Squadron to provide cover for passage of convoyAS1 to, Alexandria from ports in Greece, Convoys MS1 and MS1 from Malta. | destroyers to carry out, diversionary The ships were equipped with three 21-inch (533mm) submerged torpedo tubes, one on each broadside and another in the stern, for which 20 torpedoes were provided. of San Remo on Italian Riviera. On the evening of 23 January, the bulk of the Grand Fleet sailed in support of Beatty's battlecruisers, but Orion and the rest of the fleet did not participate in the ensuing Battle of Dogger Bank the following day. The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Orion (AS 18). (Navy Photos, click to enlarge). [14] King-Hall was relieved by Rear-Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss on 29 October. Northmore Frederick William. Two light cruisers were sunk by German U-boats during the operation, prompting Jellicoe to decide to not risk the major units of the fleet south of 55 30' North due to the prevalence of German submarines and mines. (Note: Ships of On arrival assisted HM GLOUCKS1KR also, February Deployed Search for a command's Crew List| In response the Admiralty ordered the Grand Fleet, totalling some 28 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers, to sortie the night before to cut off and destroy the High Seas Fleet. 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