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HMS Activity (D 94)

Escort Carrier of the Activity class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassActivity 
PennantD 94 
Built byCaledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland): Kincaid 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Feb, 1940 
Launched30 May, 1942 
Commissioned15 Oct, 1942 
End service20 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Former merchant Telemachus, taken over while under construction.
Decommissioned on 20 October 1945.
Sold into merchantile service in April 1946 being renamed Breconshire.
Scrapped at Mihara, Japan starting on 24 April 1967.

Commanding Officers:
A/Capt. Guy Willoughby, RN
15 September 1942 – 18 May 1944
Promoted to Capt. on 31 December 1943

Capt. Colin Wauchope, CBE, DSC, RN
18 May 1944 – 26 May 1945

A/Capt. Edward John Robert North, RNR
26 May 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameTelemachus (merchant)

Noteable events involving Activity include:

3 Apr, 1944
The German submarine U-288 was sunk in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º44'N, 27º12'E, by depth charges and rockets by Swordfish (Sqdn. 819) and Avenger / Wildcat (Sqdn 846) of the British escort carriers HMS Activity (Sqdn 819) and HMS Tracker (Sqdn 846).

For the following sequense of photographs that show U-288 being attacked shortly before sinking we would like to thank David Tolley who's father Raymond Tolley was an Air Artificer aboard HMS Tracker during that time.

(see map)

Jun, 1944

HMS Activiy in June 1944.

Photograph with thanks to David Tolley who's father Raymond Tolley was an Air Artificer aboard HMS Activity during that time.

20 Feb, 1945
HMS Activity (Capt. C. Wauchope, CBE, DSC, RN) picks up 92 survivors from the American merchant Peter Silvester that was torpedoed and sunk on 6 February by the German submarine U-862 south-west of Australia in position 34º19'S, 99º37'E.




Blue Water Navy, A
WAB Douglas, R. Sarty, M. Whitby et al.

Books dealing with this subject include:

A Blue Water Navy, WAB Douglas, R. Sarty, M. Whitby et al., 2007


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