Michael Wilfred Tomkinson DSC, RN
| Born | 6 Mar 1908 |
| Ranks
Retired: 25 Jul 1946 Decorations
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Warship Commands listed for Michael Wilfred Tomkinson, RN
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HMS Boreas (H 77) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 28 Mar 1939 | mid 1940 |
| HMS Caldwell (I 20) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 9 Sep 1940 | 1 Jan 1941 |
| HMS Boadicea (H 65) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 10 Jan 1941 | Feb 1941 |
| HMS Active (H 14) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | Feb 1941 | 1 Jan 1943 |
| HMS Rapid (H 32) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 11 Jan 1943 | Feb 1945 |
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Destroyer HMS Boreas (H 77)
25 Jul 1940
HMS Boreas (Lt.Cdr. M.W. Tomkinson, RN) and HMS Brilliant (Lt.Cdr. F.C. Brodrick, RN) were damaged by a German air attack in the English Channel. 22 of the crew of Boreas were killed in the attack. Brilliant sustained no casualties. Boreas completed repairs ca. mid-January 1941 and Brilliant completed repairs ca. mid-September 1940. (1)
Destroyer HMS Active (H 14)
8 Oct 1942 (position -33.28, 17.05)
German U-boat U-179 was sunk in the South Atlantic near Cape Town, South Africa, in position 33°28'S, 17°05'E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Active (Lt.Cdr. M.W. Tomkinson, RN).
Before U-179 was sunk HMS Active picked up 98 survivors from the British merchant City of Athens. This was U-179's first and only victim.
11 Oct 1942
HMS Active (Lt.Cdr. M.W. Tomkinson, RN) picks up 23 survivors of the American merchant Coloradan that was torpedoed and sunk on 9 October 1942 by German U-boat U-159 200 nautical miles south-west of Cape town, South-Africa in position 35°47'S, 14°34'E.
Destroyer HMS Rapid (H 32)
7 May 1943
Around 1315Z/7, in approximate position 00°30'N, 10°15'E, HMS Rapid picked up two survivors (Kenneth Cooke and Colin Armitage) from the merchant vessel Lulworth Hill that had been torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci on 19 March 1941 in position 11°00'S, 00°35'E. They had been adrift for 49 days and were the sole survivors out of 14 men on the raft they had been picked up from. There was another survivor, as the Leonardo da Vinci had also picked up one person. (2)
Sources
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- ADM 53/118264
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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