1 9 3 9
August Took up war Station on
mobilisation of the Fleet
September Deployed in Western Approaches for
convoy defence
to
December
1 9 4 0
January Atlantic
convoy defence in continuation.
February Sustained major structural
damage off west coast of
Scotland and disabled.
Taken in tow for repair.
March Under repair.
April On
completion of post repair trials resume Atlantic convoy defence deployment.
May Transferred to support
evacuation of allied troops from coast of
France and took passage
to
Dover for service in Dover Command.
28th Deployed for evacuation (Operation
DYNAMO).
30th Embarked 1500 men during two trips to
Dunkirk.
Under heavy and
sustained air attacks.
31st Sustained damage during air attacks whilst deployed for
evacuation.
June On completion of repair
resumed evacuation duties.
(Note: Made further eight trips to beaches and in all
carried over 5,000 soldiers.)
12th Transferred for further evacuation from French ports in
Bay of Biscay (Operation AERIAL)
Deployed with HM Destroyer VEGA for evacuation of personnel from Alderney.
On release from AERIAL redeployed in Forth.
July Transferred for duty
with HM Destroyer WITCH for Experimental Minesweeping trials
based in
Forth area,
August Resumed
Atlantic convoy defence in Western
Approaches.
September Atlantic convoy defence deployment
in continuation.
to
December
1 9 4 1
January Atlantic
convoy defence in continuation.
to Nominated
for refit
August Under
refit during which Sonar equipment was modified to improve operational
efficiency.
Transferred to 1st
Escort Group based at Liverpool on completion of post refit trials.
September Convoy
defence deployment in
Atlantic with Group.
to
October
November
22nd Sustained damage in collision with HM Trawler ST APOLLO off
the Hebrides.
(Note: This requisitioned trawler was sunk.)
December Resumed Atlantic convoy defence on
completion.
1 9 4 2
January Atlantic convoy defence with
Group in continuation
to (Note: See CONVOY ESCORT COMMANDER by P Gretton for
further details.)
February
March
10th Detached for escort of Russian Convoy PQ13 during initial
stage of passage to
Iceland in
NW Approaches
with HM Destroyers SALADIN, LAMERTON and Polish ORP
BLYSKAWICA. See CONVOYS TO
RUSSIA by RA Ruegg
and ARCTIC CONVOYS by
R Woodman.
16th Detached from PQ13 on arrival in
Iceland and resumed service with Group
for Atlantic
convoy defence.
April Atlantic convoy defence
with Group in continuation.
to
September
October Transferred to 21st Escort
Group in continuation of convoy defence in NW Approaches.
November Atlantic convoy defence in
continuation
to
December
1 9 4 3
January Deployment with Group for
Atlantic convoy defence in continuation.
to
June
July Detached for duty with
Torpedo School Experimental unit at
South Queensferry.
August Carried out extensive series
of trial on FOXER Noise making equipment prior to
to its
introduction into operational use for defence against attacks by acoustic
torpedoes
September (Note:
These had been developed specifically for use against escorts of convoys and
were
known as ZAUNKONIG or T5 weapons.).
October Resumed service in Western
Approaches with 21st Escort Group based in
Iceland
to Deployed
for convoy defence in central
Atlantic for support of anti-submarine
December operations
including RAF Coastal Command aircraft.
1 9 4 4
January Atlantic convoy defence and
support based in
Iceland
to
September
October Transferred for coastal convoy
defence when ships of Group replaced by new US built
CAPTAIN Class
Frigates,
(Note: This type of WW1 built destroyer was quite unsuitable
for deployment in
the Atlantic and several instances of men being lost overboard in
rough weather
are recorded for this vintage of destroyer.)
November Deployed for coastal convoy
defence in Home waters,
to
December
1 9 4 5
January Coastal convoy duties in
continuation
to
April
May Removed from operational
use after VE day and laid-up in Reserve.
to
August