Mountbatten's report was submitted on the 20th May 1940 HMS Kelly pictured as she arrived in the Tyne under tow on the 13th May 1940. HMS Kelly, destroyer K-Class Destroyer ordered from Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn, Newcastle under the 1937 Programme in March 1937 and laid down on 26th August 1937 Detached with HMS KANDAHAR and HMS BULLDOG to carry out search for U-Boat. TheGenealogist has launched a new resource for those with sea going ancestors. The careers of naval officers can be traced through their commissions and promotions listed in the regular official Navy List. Keith Carter CPOSA Served from 1973 - 1997 Served in HMS Hermes. The documents are more properly called Crew Lists and Agreements - the differences are explained below. About UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970 This database includes multiple volumes of the Navy List , the Royal Navy’s official published list of officers. My father served on hms Kipling and was involved in the rescue of crew members of the hms Kelly when it was attacked. Published regularly since 1814, the Navy List is a good starting place for researching the career of an officer in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Nursing Service, Coast Guard, and other naval entities. his name was James WIlliam Jewell, he was a telegraphist on the Kipling. List of casualties sustained on HMS Kelly during torpedo attack on 9th May 1940 It gives details of over 439,000 Royal Navy and Merchant Seamen records which are searchable by name, rank, age and ship. HMS Kelly (F01) was a British Royal Navy K-class destroyer (1,695 tons) commanded by Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, was bombarding German positions on the island of Crete in company with the destroyer Kashmir, when at 5.30am on the 23rd they were attacked by German Stuka dive-bombers, each carrying a 500-kg bomb under its belly.The Kashmir was hit by one bomb dead amidships and sank … Media in category "HMS Kelly (F01)" The following 20 files are in this category, out of 20 total. The full crew list can be displayed for any of the ships. Below are just some of our members who have served at HMS Hermes. IWM holds an almost complete run from 1914 and some of those from 1888–1970 are on I am looking for information on a person Called PLUMMER who is believed to have been the Navigator on HMS Kelly when she was sunk off Crete. Records of Greenwich Seamen's Hospital and other hospitals; pensions and grants received; medals … These contain seniority lists of all officers, cross-referenced with individual ships. Members who served with HMS Invincible. Their romance blossomed and they married. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned just prior to the outbreak of war, she was 356 feet long and displaced 2,330 tons. A full set of these publications is held by TNA. When requesting crew lists please quote the reference number and the year of the crew list required. Date: 1863 - 1913 Arrangement: The documents are stored by year in numerical sequence of registered number, as they were received, and have not been rearranged under the names of individual ships. Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Invincible. Contributor: Alan Chanter ww2dbase Captained by Lord Louis Mountbatten (qv), HMS Kelly was the name ship of the British "K" Class of destroyers. The muster roll or crew list should note where he was before and after his service in that ship, so you can track most people backwards and forwards from that point. On June 23rd 1941, the British Cabinet amongst other things discussed the possible publication of 'information' via the Ministry of Information regarding the machine-gunning in the water of the surviving crew members of HMS Kelly which had been …