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HMS Adventure (M 23)

Cruiser minelayer of the Adventure class


HMS Adventure during the war

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCruiser minelayer
ClassAdventure 
PennantM 23 
Built byDevonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K.) : Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) (diesels engines only) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Nov, 1922 
Launched18 Jun, 1924 
Commissioned2 Oct, 1926 
End serviceMar, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryBecame a repair ship in March 1944.
Sold on 10 July 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Arthur Robert Halfhide, RN
31 July 1939 – ca. December 1939

HMS Adventure was in Dockyard Control during refit

Capt. Norman Vere Grace, RN
18 August 1940 – 12 August 1942

Capt. Ronald George Bowes-Lyon, MVO, RN
12 August 1942 - ???

HMS Adventure was in Dockyard Control during refit

A/Capt. Alan MacGregor Sheffield, RN
20 March 1944 – 5 August 1944

Cdr. George Alan Kenneth McCombe, RNVR
5 August 1944 – 7 January 1945

Cdr. A.H. Davies, RNVR
7 January 1945 – 27 April 1945

Capt. Donal Scott McGrath, RN
27 April 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Adventure is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Adventure include:

13 Nov, 1939
During the night of 12/13 November 1939 the German destroyers Karl Galster, Wilhelm Heidkamp, Hermann Kunne and Hans Ludemann lay a minefield in the South and Edinborough channels. Soon after the minefield had been laid the minelaying cruiser HMS Adventure (Capt. A. R. Halfhide, RN) ran into a mine. Temporally disabled the injured were transferred to the destroyer HMS Basilisk (Cdr. M. Richard, RN) while the destroyer HMS Blanche (Lt.Cdr. R.N. Aubrey, RN) stood by. As the force made its way towards safety HMS Blanche was mined and settled by the stern. The tug Fabia went to the destroyers assistance but as she was towed the destroyer capsied and sank. HMS Blanche lost two crew killed and twelve injured.

See this website (offsite link) for a detailed account of the mining of HMS Adventure and HMS Blanche.


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