1 9 3 9
August Commissioned
for service with RNR crew for Royal Review of the Reserve Fleet at Weymouth
a
refit at Chatham.
9th Attended Royal Review in Weymouth Bay.
Nominated
for service as an RCNVR Drillship
September Took up
War Station and joined 7th Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet at Scapa Flow..
5th Deployed on Northern Patrol to
intercept blockade runners.
(See
THE BLOCKADERS by K Poolman).
24th Intercepted and captured German ship MINDEN off Cape Wrath.
October Northern
Patrol duty in continuation based at Sullom Voe.
November
23rd Sailed from Sullom Voe to joined HM
Cruisers SUFFOLK and CERES in search for
German
battleships SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU following the sinking of
HM Armed Merchant Cruiser RAWALPINDI.
(See
ENGAGE THE ENEMY MORE CLOSELY and Naval Staff History.)
Intercepted
German ship KONSOL HENDRIC FISSER off Iceland.
Boarded
and escorted enemy ship as Prize to Leith.
Nominated for
refit and took passage to Tyne.
December
1st Under refit at Tyne commercial shipyard.
(Note:
Radar for detection of aircraft was not fitted during the refit).
21st On completion transferred to 3rd
Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet for
patrol and interception
duty.
24th Passage to Mediterranean from Plymouth.
31st Joined Squadron in Malta
1 9 4 0
January Deployed
for trade defence and Contraband Control in Mediterranean.
to
May
June Transferred to Alexandria to join Fleet after Italy entered the war.
(For
details of Mediterranean deployments after outbreak of war with Italy, see ENGAGE THE
ENEMY
MORE CLOSELY by Corelli Barnett).
11th Joined HM. Battleships WARSPITE and MALAYA, HM Aircraft Carrier EAGLE,
HM Cruisers
ORION,
NEPTUNE, SYDNEY (RAN), LIVERPOOL and CALEDON with screen of nine
destroyers
for attacks on Italian supply convoys to Libya.
12th Torpedoed by Italian submarine BAGNOLINI
south of Crete.
Sank
after two and a half hours.
39
of ship's company lost their lives.
Survivors
were rescued by HM Cruiser CALEDON and HM Destroyer DAINTY.
(Casualty
List -
note
on casualties)
