listed above, all of which were associated with auxiliaries of one sort or another during WWII. The LION class battleship HMS CONQUEROR was allocated Pendant No 45 (with no Flag Superior - the practise in the 1930s/40s to reserve "no Flag" nos for modern major combatants (battleships, fleet carriers and cruisers) that were not assigned to service on foreign stations and not assigned to any Dominion Navy - ie that were available for deployment without first having to negotiate the potentially choppy waters of inter-governmental agreements) - this ship would not have been allocated any of the pendant nos. However, I do also have a reference to an HMS CONQUEROR having the Pendant No 4.306, which was most likely also allocated to the above vessel at one time, but I have no further details. I haven't scoured the web to see if there are any other references out there. This vessel is recorded in Lenton & Colledge "Warships of World War II", "Forward dated 1964 edition" (for want of a better description - the early 638 pp version - there have been a number of revisions since) Would typically have operated in coastal / esturial waters as an AA ship, putting up an undirected AA barrage while defending the coastal convoy in her care - which might well be unable to manouver while under air attack due to the need to keep to deep water channels.
Requisitioned circa Sep to Dec 1939 as an A/S Yacht, one of about 50 large yachts acquired to fit out nine new anti-submarine groups formed during the first three months of the war (81st to 89th A/S Groups), each group to be equipped with between four to six A/S Yachts, each vessel probably equipped with minimal armament of DCs / MGs. Launched, presumably as mercantile Marynthia The vessel to which René refers is most likely the following: is notorious for slapping 'HMS' in front of British ships that were not entitled to the prefix, and never bore it. Oh and I see where you've got that information from now. I'd therefore be very surprised to see them commissioning a mere armed yacht with that name. They also tended to reserve the traditional 'battleship' names, like 'Conqueror' for the Navy's capital ships, hence the shuffling of names at the end of the war, where they switch names between the few major ships under construction to make sure those that ended up escaping the budget cuts and actually being launched, did so under the proudest names. Stan 16:19, (UTC) It sounds like she might have been one of the many small ships requisitioned by the Admiralty but never formally commissioned into the Navy, especially as at this time they had the battleship HMS Conqueror in the yards, and presumably still expected to launch her at some point. In either case, it would be good to have a link to an article from here. McCausland) which have picked up 18 survivors of the british steam merchant Rhexenor on 3 february, 1943.ĭo you have any documentation that references this? It's not mentioned in Colledge, could be an omission, or could be that the vessel was not an "HMS". A british armed yacht HMS Conqueror (LtCdr E. Thère is an other ship with the name of Conqueror. Set index pages do not require a rating on the quality assessment scale.
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