Quentin Roosevelt (ship, 1917)

**Quentin Roosevelt**
Ship data
flag	France United Kingdom;
other ship names	Flamant;
Ship type	Aviso
Shipyard	Arsenal Rochefort
Launch	October 27, 1917
Commissioning	April 17, 1918
Whereabouts	Wrecked in 1955
Ship dimensions and crew
length	55 m ( Lüa ) 47 m ( Lpp )
width	8.85 m
Draft	Max. 3.97 m
displacement	585 t
crew	44 men
Machine system
machine	2 × steam boiler; 1 × compound machine
Machine ; performance	110 hp (81 kW)
Top ; speed	14.5 kn (27 km / h)
propeller	1
Armament
	2 × Sk 7.5 cm L / 36.6 ; 1 × Fla - MG 8 mm M1907 ; 2 × depth charges ;

The Quentin Roosevelt (ex Flamant ) was as Aviso designated gunboat of the French Navy , the most of his playing career as a fishery protection vessel served in World War II , however, by the British Royal Navy repossessed and was used.

The ship

The ship, a single ship , was built in 1913 in the Arsenal of Rochefort laid down on , but the building was after the outbreak of the First World War temporarily halted and resumed only in 1917 due to lack of escort and patrol boats. The ship was launched on 27 October 1917 with the name Flamant from the stack and was put into service on 17 April 1918th With a length of 55 m over all or 47 m between the perpendiculars, a width of 8.85 m and a draft of 2.90 m empty or 3.97 m fully equipped , the Flamant displaced 585 tons . The machinery consisted of two marine boilers and a triple expansion steam engine with 1,100 hp , which enabled a top speed of 14.5 knots via one screw . The bunker capacity was 100 tons of coal, the range 1,500 nautical miles at 10 knots cruising speed. The ship was armed with two 75-mm rapid-fire guns of the Canon de 75 mle 1897 (guerre) type (one in front, one aft), an anti - aircraft mitrailleuse of the St. Étienne M1907 type and two depth charges at the stern . The crew consisted of 44 men.

fate

French Navy

After its commissioning, the Flamant served as a patrol boat until the end of the war. Then she was demobilized in March 1919 and converted for her future role as a fisheries protection ship. The aft gun was removed and the funnel shortened by 1.5 m. The ship took up its service on April 1, 1919 at the reopened station Navale de la Manche et de la Mer du Nord in Boulogne , together with the trawlers Sentinelle and Sajou . In February 1920, the ship was renamed the Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the youngest son of former US President Theodore Roosevelt , fighter pilot with the United States Army Air Service , who was shot down and killed in Champagne on July 14, 1918. Until June 1939, the Quentin Roosevelt served as a fisheries protection ship ( aviso garde-pêche ) in the English Channel , the North Sea and the waters around Iceland . During most of her voyages she also had scientists from the Marine Research Institute Ifremer ("Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer") from Boulogne on board. From June 1928 the Quentin Roosevelt was involved with the cruiser Strasbourg in the unsuccessful search for the French flying boat Latham 47 , which disappeared on June 18 with Roald Amundsen on board ; Only in September were the ships withdrawn after 80 days in the Arctic , as all the signs found indicated the total loss of the flying boat.

On June 27, 1939, a ministerial circular announced that the ship would be retired in August 1941 if it would be replaced by the new Aviso La Furieuse ordered from Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in La Seyne-sur-Mer , but that did not materialize . On September 3, 1939, the day the French declaration of war on the German Reich , the Quentin Roosevelt was part of the 1st Aviso Division (1e division d'avisos) stationed in Cherbourg, whose four ships carried out escort protection against submarine attacks. In autumn 1939, the ship was equipped with demining equipment and then assigned as an auxiliary mine sweeper to the 3rd mine clearing section (3e Section de Dragage) in Cherbourg. In late May 1940 it took part in Operation Dynamo , the evacuation of British and French troops from Dunkirk . On June 18, 1940 - the day on which General de Gaulle from Radio Londres called on the French with the " June 18 Appeal " to continue the resistance - the Quentin Roosevelt ran from Cherbourg over to Portsmouth in England.

Royal Navy

There the ship was boarded and confiscated by British troops in the early morning of July 3 in the course of Operation Grasp (parallel to Operation Catapult ). The Royal Navy put the ship into service with the registration number FY 317, initially to transport troops and material between Oban and Lochailort on the west coast of Scotland . Soon the ship, however, was equipped as a submarine hunter, plus an additional 4.7 cm Hotchkiss - naval gun armed, the 12th Anti-Submarine Group in Aberdeen assigned. and used in escort and security service between Scotland, the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands . Since the FNFL (Forces navales françaises libres, Free French Navy) did not have enough personnel, the ship was placed under the Royal Navy Section Belge (RNSB) from January 1941 and assigned to the 24th Anti-Submarine Group stationed in Kirkwall . Part of the crew now consisted of 30-50 Belgian volunteers , the majority of whom were West Flemish fishermen, who were trained on the ship for service on warships. With these men, the crews of the two RNSB corvettes of the Flower class , Godetia (K226) and Buttercup (K193), were then put together in February and April 1942 . On September 21, 1941, the Quentin Roosevelt rescued the crew of the Greek freighter Avra , which sank after a collision with the British freighter Marvia off Duncansby Head on the northeastern tip of Scotland. From January 1943, the ship was then only a submarine training ship.

The End

After the end of the war it was returned to France in June 1945 and used again as a fisheries protection ship. On February 14, 1947, the Quentin Roosevelt was struck off the list of ships, released for sale on February 15, 1950 and finally scrapped in 1955.

Footnotes

↑ Before the war, this station consisted of the Aviso Ibis and the two trawlers Estafette (sunk on April 21, 1916 after being hit by a mine in the English Channel) and Sentinelle . In April 1934 it was renamed Station Navale de la Manche, de la Mer du Nord et d'Islande .
^ Bernard Estival: Un siècle de Navires Scientifiques Français. Gerfaut, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-914622-21-X , p. 42.
↑ The division also included the previous survey ship Amiral Mouchez from 1937 ( archive link ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )), the hydrographic ship Gaston Rivier from 1918 ( archive link ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )) and the old one Aviso ( submarine trap ) Arras from 1918 ( fr: Classe Arras ).
↑ This section also included the three converted tugs Ramier , Elan II and Goury .
↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4107-34aRNHome.htm
^ Les units de la Royal Navy affectées à la "RNSB" (1940–1945)
↑ http://www.marine-mra-klm.be/royal_navy_section_belge_047.htm
↑ In service April 23, 1942 to December 20, 1944.
↑ Frank Decat: De Belgen in Engeland 40/45: de Belgian strijdkrachten in Groot-Brittannië tijdens WOII. Lannoo, Tielt (Belgium) 2007, ISBN 978-90-209-6981-8 , p. 67.

Web links

Commons : Quentin Roosevelt - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Gérard Garier: A propos de l'aviso 'Quentin Roosevelt' ex-'Fllamant'. In: Marines & Forces Navales , No. 102, April-May 2006, pp. 58-61.
Gérard Garier: Les méconnus de la Marine nationale: les Quentin Roosevelt. In: Marines & Forces Navales , No. 93, Oct. – Nov. 2004, pp. 58-64.

[1] Before the war, this station consisted of the Aviso Ibis and the two trawlers Estafette (sunk on April 21, 1916 after being hit by a mine in the English Channel) and Sentinelle . In April 1934 it was renamed Station Navale de la Manche, de la Mer du Nord et d'Islande .

[2] Bernard Estival: Un siècle de Navires Scientifiques Français. Gerfaut, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-914622-21-X , p. 42.

[3] The division also included the previous survey ship Amiral Mouchez from 1937 ( archive link ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )), the hydrographic ship Gaston Rivier from 1918 ( archive link ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )) and the old one Aviso ( submarine trap ) Arras from 1918 ( fr: Classe Arras ).

[4] This section also included the three converted tugs Ramier , Elan II and Goury .

[5] ttp://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4107-34aRNHome.htm

[6] Les units de la Royal Navy affectées à la "RNSB" (1940–1945)

[7] ttp://www.marine-mra-klm.be/royal_navy_section_belge_047.htm

[8] In service April 23, 1942 to December 20, 1944.

[9] Frank Decat: De Belgen in Engeland 40/45: de Belgian strijdkrachten in Groot-Brittannië tijdens WOII. Lannoo, Tielt (Belgium) 2007, ISBN 978-90-209-6981-8 , p. 67.