HMS Phrontis
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The HMS Phrontis (FD 142) was a 1911-built in the UK trawlers , which in the First World War by the Royal Navy as a minesweeper and in the Second World War, also as a patrol vehicle of the Royal Navy Section Belge was used. In 1955 the ship was scrapped . The name Phrontis comes from Greek mythology.
Construction and technical data
The ship was commissioned by the "Mount Steam Fishing Company Ltd." (owner: George EJ Moody from Grimsby ) and sold to Cochrane & Sons Ltd. laid down in Selby under hull number 479. When it was launched on March 4, 1911, it was named Phrontis based on a figure from Greek mythology. When she was registered in Fleetwood on March 30, 1911, she was given the fishing license FD 142 . The final completion and delivery to the shipping company took place in April.
Her length was 39.65 meters (130.1 ft ), she was 7.16 meters (23.5 ft) wide and had a draft of 3.81 meters (12.5 ft). Their tonnage was 288 GRT or 114 NRT. The drive consisted of a triple expansion machine from Amos & Smith Ltd., of Hull , which achieved 90 hp and acted on one screw. There is no information about the speed or range. During the Second World War it had a crew of 30 officers and men. As armament, she carried a 12 pounder gun, which corresponds to a caliber of 76 mm.
history
Shortly after the beginning of the First World War, the Royal Navy requisitioned the ship on September 10, 1914 and used it as a mine sweeper with the designation 520 and a 12 pounder gun. On March 16, 1918, the Phrontis collided with the trawler Vulture II , also used as a mine sweeper , which capsized and sank north of Scotland. The crew were rescued and taken to Long Hope Bay. It was not until 1919 that it was released from the Royal Navy and returned to the owner, Sir George EJ Moody and the "Mount Steam Fishing Company".
In the twenties and thirties the ship was used again in fishing. There was a change in the shipping company, which was now managed by WM Kelly. Only a few voyages are known - in particular the trip from Fleetwood to Scottish waters from October 13, 1935, as two crew members were washed overboard in heavy weather on October 19 and drowned.
During the Second World War, the Phrontis was requisitioned again on May 28, 1940 by the Royal Navy and from June onwards was used by Liverpool on submarine patrols in the Western Approaches . From April 1941 the team changed. The ship has now been manned by Belgian volunteers who belonged to the Royal Navy Section Belge - the naval forces of the "Free Belgian Army" in exile in Britain. In addition to the Royal Navy's “White Ensign”, the ship also carried the Belgian national flag. The ship went from Stornoway in Scotland from January 1942 onwards in the Western Approaches on submarine patrols. In this operational area she was until July 1943. Then the Belgians returned the ship to the Royal Navy, which continued to use it until the end of the war.
After the war, it was returned by the Royal Navy to the owner, now Will B. Moody, in January 1946. The Phrontis was still fishing there for a few years before it was sold for scrapping in 1955, given its age.
literature
- Frank Decat: De Belgen in Engeland 40/45: de Belgische strijdkrachten in Groot-Brittannië tijdens WOII. Terra-Lannoo, Uitgeverij 2007, ISBN 978-90-209-6981-8 .
- Johnny Geldhof: Royal Navy Section Belge 1940-1945. Verraes, Heule 2002, ISBN 9074705081 .
- Johnny Geldhof: De Strijd op Zee in 1940–1945. Distributed door de Royal Navy Section Belge. 2000, Uitgeverij Groeninghe nv, ISBN 9071868338 .
Web links
- http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar4AP.htm , accessed on August 12, 2017
- http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm , accessed on August 12, 2017
- http://www.belgian-navy.be/t4780-phrontis , accessed on August 12, 2017
- http://marinebelge.be/phrontis.html , accessed on August 12, 2017
- http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Cochrane_and_Sons , accessed August 12, 2017
- http://www.navypedia.org/ships/belgium/be_cm_apv_2.htm , accessed on August 12, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm
- ↑ http://marinebelge.be/phrontis.html , http://www.belgian-navy.be/t4780-phrontis , http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar4AP.htm
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Locations10Attacked.htm , http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm
- ↑ http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm
- ↑ http://www.belgian-navy.be/t4780-phrontis
- ↑ cf. http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4006-15RNHome3.htm , http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/royal_navy_section_belge_047.htm , http://marinebelge.be/phrontis.html
- ↑ http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/hms_phrontis_918.htm