The Blue Boar, Poole

HMS THRACIAN do you still have the Ships Bell
My Brother Stephen de Carteret was ,Drafted off to crew the HMS Thracian (D86)which had been captured
By Imperial Jap Navy ,Nippon Forces in Hong Kong 15Dec 1941 off Lamma Island and subsequently scuttled by being run aground Round Island in Repulse Bay
On the evening of the 16-17 Dec 1941,Salvaged 10 July 42 repaired and placed in service of the IJN, on the 25 Nov 42 as a patrol Vessel No 101 Reclassified on the 15 March 44
as Special training ship No 1. taken to Yokohama ,
She Returned to the R.N.Oct 1945 HMS THRACIAN was found at Yokosuka, near Tokyo after the occupation of the area in August 1945. An unsuccessful attempt to scuttle had been made and she was lying alongside a jetty where she was recovered by .
Steve in the party from HM Destroyer UNDINE in December 1945. One surprising feature was a Japanese centimetric radar fitted aft on a special mast structure and it is reported that she had been used as a Trials ship for the successful LONG LANCE torpedoes, but the ship was clearly in poor condition. She was placed on the Disposal List at Hong Kong and sold in 1946 for breaking-up locally. Miraculously the Ship's Bell survived her service and is now held by the Public House BLUE BOAR" at Poole, Dorset.
Steve was part of the theCrewcrew which was to return HMS Thracian to her home port in Hong Kong. Steve died on the 26 Sept 2010
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13 Oct 2010 20:07