Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Admiralty Modified W |
Pennant | D 72 |
Mod | Short range escort |
Built by | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
Ordered | Apr 1918 |
Laid down | 30 Aug 1918 |
Launched | 26 Aug 1919 |
Commissioned | 13 Nov 1919 |
Lost | 26 Sep 1942 |
Loss position | 54° 34'N, 25° 44'W |
History | On 26 September 1942 HMS Veteran (Lt.Cdr Trevor Henry Garwood, RN) was torpedoed and sunk by U-404 in position 54º34'N, 25º44'W while escorting convoy RB-1. When torpedoed she was rescuing survivors of the American passenger ship New York. She was lost with all hands together with rescued survivors from the American passenger ships Boston and New York. The convoy was attacked by three wolf packs totalling 17 U-boats. Hit by U-boat |
U-boat Attack | See our U-boat attack entry for the HMS Veteran |
Commands listed for HMS Veteran (D 72)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Cdr. John Egerton Broome, RN | 11 Oct 1939 | 4 Dec 1940 |
2 | Cdr. Walter Thomas Couchman, RN | 4 Dec 1940 | 6 Jul 1941 |
3 | Cdr. William Edward James Eames, RN | 6 Jul 1941 | 19 Aug 1942 |
4 | Lt.Cdr. Trevor Henry Garwood, RN | 19 Aug 1942 | 26 Sep 1942 (+) |
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Notable events involving Veteran include:
7 Feb 1940
HMS H 43 collided wit HMS Veteran (Cdr. J.E. Broome, RN) off Plymouth.
3 Dec 1940
HMS H 32 (Lt. R.L. Alexander, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Veteran (Cdr. J.E. Broome, RN). (1)
4 Apr 1941
The British merchant Harbledown is torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-94 south-south-west of Iceland in position 58°24'N, 23°20'W. HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.T. Couchman, OBE, RN) later picks up 25 survivors.
1 May 1941
HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.T. Couchman, OBE, RN) picks up 91 survivors from the British passenger ship Nerissa that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-552 south-east of Rockall in position 55°57'N, 10°08'W.
10 Jun 1941
HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.T. Couchman, OBE, RN) picks up 29 survivors from the British merchant Ainderby that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-552 130 nautical miles west by north of Bloody Foreland in position 55°30'N, 12°10'W.
6 Sep 1941
HMS H 50 (Lt. N. Marriott, DSC, RN) conducted exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.E.J. Eames, RN) and HMS Saladin (Lt.Cdr. L.J. Dover, RN). (2)
11 Sep 1941
German U-boat U-207 was sunk in the Denmark Strait south-east of Angmassalik, Greenland, in position 63°59'N, 34°48'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Leamington (Lt.Cdr. H.G. Bowerman, RN) and HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.E.J. Eames, RN).
28 Feb 1942
HrMs O 10 (Lt. Baron D.T. Mackay, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with HMS Northern Spray (T/Lt. G.T. Gilbert, RNVR), HMS Saladin (Lt.Cdr. G.V. Legassick, RNR) and HMS Veteran (Cdr. W.E.J. Eames, DSC, RN). (3)
3 Jul 1942
HMS Veteran took over the attack on U-215 from the British ASW Trawler HMS Le Tiger with depth charges and Hedgehog. U-215 was sunk but credited to Le Tiger. (4)
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Sources
- ADM 173/16291
- ADM 173/16793
- File 2.12.03.6378 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
- Personal communication
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.