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SUMMARY:HMT Falmouth III – FY152 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:By 1915\, she had entered Admiralty service as HMT Falmouth III\, Admiralty number FY152\, working with the Dover Patrol. Her job was minesweeping\, one of the most necessary and least forgiving jobs in the Channel. The Dover Strait was a vital wartime route\, but it was also a killing ground of mines\, submarines\, patrol craft\, hospital ships and merchant vessels trying to survive the shortest crossing between Britain and the Continent. \nOn the night of 16/17 November 1915\, German minelaying submarine UC-5\, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Pustkuchen\, laid mines near the Dover harbour approaches. On 17 November\, that same minefield sank HMHS Anglia\, a hospital ship carrying wounded men back from France\, and also sank the collier SS Lusitania\, which had gone to assist. Two days later\, on 19 November 1915\, Falmouth III struck one of the remaining mines while engaged in minesweeping duties. \nThe explosion was catastrophic. Contemporary and later accounts describe the trawler as being blown in half. She apparently sank directly onto the wreck of HMHS Anglia\, lying there for several days before a gale dislodged her. Wessex Archaeology records that a wreck possibly identified as Falmouth III lies around 1.4 km south-south-east of Anglia\, which fits the account of her being shifted after sinking. \nSeven men died in the loss: William Henry Abbott\, William Edward Fitzgerald\, John Harvey\, John Martin\, James Alexander McIntosh\, Arthur Midgley and Frederick Charles Wignall. Several are commemorated on naval memorials\, while others lie in marked graves at Milford Haven\, Dover and Noordwijk in the Netherlands. Lieutenant H. Beedle\, the commanding officer\, survived after reportedly going down with the vessel and returning to the surface. \nThis is a small wreck with a large story. Falmouth III was not a grand warship. She was a working trawler turned minesweeper\, doing brutal\, practical work in one of the most dangerous stretches of water in Britain. Her loss links directly to UC-5’s Dover minefield\, the sinking of HMHS Anglia\, and the wider story of the Dover Patrol’s daily fight to keep the Channel open.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-falmouth-iii-fy152-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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SUMMARY:HMT Lydian – 162 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Lydian\, Admiralty No. 162\, began life as the Milford Haven fishing trawler FV Lydian\, registered as M232. Built in Aberdeen in 1908 by John Duthie / Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co.\, she was a steel steam trawler of about 244 gross tons\, measuring roughly 36.7 m long with a beam of 6.8 m. Before the war she worked as a civilian fishing vessel under the ownership of S. A. Laycock & Co. of Milford Haven. \nDuring the First World War\, Lydian was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted for naval service. Like many former fishing trawlers\, she was well suited to hard\, practical work close to shore. These vessels became patrol boats\, escort vessels and minesweepers\, doing essential work in waters made increasingly dangerous by German submarines and minefields. Lydian’s Admiralty number was 162\, and by September 1915 she was serving off the Kent coast. \nOn 18 September 1915\, Lydian struck a German mine off South Foreland\, near Dover. Historic England identifies the mine as one laid by UC-6\, a German Type UC I minelaying submarine commanded by Kapitänleutnant Matthias Graf von Schmettow. The loss came during a period when UC-boats were laying mines across British coastal routes\, including the Dover Strait\, Harwich and Yarmouth areas. These small submarines did not need to surface and fight. They laid their mines\, left\, and let the Channel do the killing later. \nThe explosion sank Lydian with the loss of eight men. Known casualties include William Charles Crisp\, David Thomas Job\, James Charles Phillips\, Ernest Albert Edward Littlewood\, William MacLeod\, George More\, Edward Ernest Pawley and Philip Eric Wilson. Their backgrounds reflect the human geography of wartime trawler service: Milford Haven\, Halesworth\, Wick\, Stornoway connections\, naval reservists\, fishermen\, engineers\, seamen and signalmen pulled into the machinery of war. \nThe wreck lies about 3.2 km east of South Foreland in around 23 to 24 m of water. Historic England records the site as positively identified\, lying roughly NW/SE\, with a charted wreck area of about 50 m x 15 m. Artefacts recovered from the wreck include a bell\, portholes\, an engine-room plate\, a lamp and a door light. These finds helped confirm the wreck’s identity and give the site a stronger historical footing than many anonymous Channel marks. \nFor divers\, HMT Lydian is a classic Dover Patrol wreck: small\, workmanlike\, heavily tied to the mine warfare story of the Dover Strait\, and lost in the dangerous coastal zone below South Foreland. She was not a grand warship\, but her loss says a great deal about the war at sea in 1915. The Channel was not only a route to France. It was a battlefield\, and trawlers like Lydian paid the price for keeping it open.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-lydian-162-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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