25 November, Tuesday British light cruiser SHEFFIELD departed Scapa Flow for Seidisfjord for escort duty with convoy PQ 5. In heavy weather on 26 November, the cruiser was forced to heave to. The cruiser was able to arrive on 27 November. *** British convoy ON 40 departed Liverpool, escorted by anti submarine trawlers COVENTRY CITY and LADY MADELEINE. The convoy was joined on 26 November by sloop COMMANDANT DETROYAT, corvettes HEATHER and NARCISSUS, and anti submarine trawler ARAB. Destroyers BEAGLE and BOADICEA joined on 27 November. The escorts were detached on 30 November when relieved by destroyers COLUMBIA and SKEENA and corvettes ACONIT, GALT, SHEDIAC, and WETASKIWIIN. The convoy was dispersed on 4 December. *** British minesweeper FITZROY departed Scapa Flow for the Faroes to resume minesweeping duties. *** British drifter FISHER GIRL (85 tons) (Temporary Electrician J.W. Parsons, RNVR) was sunk by German bombing at Falmouth Harbour. *** British armed patrol trawler JACQUES MORGAND (155 tons) was sunk by German bombing at Falmouth. *** British convoy OG 77 departed Liverpool escorted by sloops BLACK SWAN and FOWEY and corvettes CAMPION, HELIOTROPE, LA MALOUINE, and MALLOW. On 26 November, destroyer HARVESTER escorted the convoy through the day. She was then detached and proceeded to Gibraltar, arriving on 2 December. Corvette MALLOW was detached on 28 November and corvettes BLUEBELL, CARNATION, MYOSOTIS, and STONECROP joined the escort. Destroyers HESPERUS and HARVESTER departed Gibraltar on 7 December and joined the escort on 9 December. Destroyer HIGHLANDER proceeded to the escort after completing current duties. Destroyer HARVESTER was recalled on 10 December. Escorts were detached to accompany ships proceeding to Portuguese or Spanish ports on 9 December. The escorts detached rejoined the convoy. Sloop DEPTFORD and corvettes VETCH, SAMPHIRE, PENSTEMON, and CONVOLVULUS departed Gibraltar on an anti submarine sweep on 9 December and joined the convoy on 13 December for additional escort. The convoy arrived at Gibraltar on 13 December. *** British troopships ROYAL ULSTERMAN and ROYAL MONARCH arrived at Gibraltar, escorted by destroyers WISHART and VIDETTE. *** Soviet destroyer LENINGRAD was mined off Hango. The destroyer was repaired. *** German auxiliary patrol vessel Vp 412 (trawler BREMERHAVEN: 416 tons) was sunk near St Pol by a British motor torpedo boat. The vessel was later salved and returned to service as Vp 805. *** British battleship BARHAM (Captain G.C. Cooke) was sunk by German submarine U 331 at 32-34N, 26-24E off Sollum. Cooke, Temporary Paymaster S/LT A.J. Allsebrook, RNVR, LCDR (E) G.A.O. Andrews, LCDR F. Barchard, Temporary Acting Warrant Electrician T.R. Barnacott, Temporary LT (E) A. Bisset, Temporary S/LT K.M.H. Bond, RNVR, Probationary Temporary Midshipman R.G. Bower, RNR, Midshipman T.P. Boyd, Warrant Engineer N.E. Boyes, CDR G.F.N. Bradford, LCDR W.L. Brodrick, Temporary Chaplain the Reverend F. Burnett, RNVR, Paymaster LT J. Charles, Midshipman R.E. Cloete, LT J.M. Corrie, RM, CDR R.H. Craske, DSC. LT H. Creasy, Commissioned Boatswain E.T. Ford, Commissioned Gunner C.H. George, Warrant Mechanic W.J.O. Goodlad, LCDR D. Grove-White, Midshipman W.T. Hickling, LT C. St.G. S. Hill, RM, Senior Master C.B. Hockaday, Midshipman A.E. Hutton, RNR, Temporary Midshipman W.J. Jennings, RNR, Midshipman the Honourable J.C. Jocelyn, Acting Paymaster S/LT D.M. Lawder, Temporary Paymaster S/LT H.F. Lacheur, RNVR, Temporary LT (E) N.C. Lewis, LT J.W. Lochore, Warrant Supply Officer S.W. Lowes, Temporary Midshipman W.G.W. Maplesden, RNR, Acting LT (E) R.C.V. Molesworth, CDR G.P.U. Morris, DSC, Warrant Telegraphist G.M. Pennington, Temporary LT (E) F.V. Percival, LT W.G.L. Peters, Paymaster LT D.A. Phillips, RNVR, Captain G.S. Pitts, RM, Temporary Midshipman J.H. Reid, RNR, LCDR J.R. Roberts-West, DSC, Temporary Paymaster LT J.C. Robertson, RNVR, LT J.K. Rodwell, Midshipman H.T.B. Salmon, Temporary Surgeon LT A.E. Sherwell, RNVR, Surgeon CDR E.R. Sorley, Commissioned Gunner A.E. Stanley, LT (E) H.B. Stringer, Paymaster Midshipman F.H. Twycross, Signal Boatswain J.G. Warren, Temporary LT R.S. Watson, RNVR, Engineering CDR H.R. Whitehouse, Paymaster CDR H.G. Williams, LT S. Woodcock, six hundred and seventy four ratings, and one hundred and thirty two Marines were missing from the battleship. Two ratings and one Marine died of wounds after being rescued. About four hundred and fifty survivours, including Vice Admiral Pridham Wippell were rescued by destroyers JERVIS, JACKAL, NIZAM, who rescued 168 men, and HOTSPUR. British battleships QUEEN ELIZABETH and VALIANT and destroyers NAPIER, GRIFFIN, HASTY, DECOY, HOTSPUR, and KIPLING arrived at Alexandria at 1000 on 26 November. Destroyers JERVIS, NIZAM, and JACKAL arrived at Alexandria at 1400. After the loss of battleship BARHAM, submarine OTUS was withdrawn from operational duties for use as an anti submarine warfare training ship. *** British destroyer THRASHER sank Italian armed merchant cruiser ATTILO DEFFENU (3510 tons) near Brindisi at 40-37N, 18-27E from a Patrasso - Brindisi convoy of steamers CATERINA MADRE (4019 tons) and RESURRECTIO (979 tons). *** British submarine THUNDERBOLT sank German steamer LVII with gunfire off Cape Malea. *** British destroyers WISHART and VIDETTE with troopships ROYAL SCOTSMAN, ROYAL ULSTERMAN, and ULSTER MONARCH arrived at Gibraltar after departing Freetown on 17 November. The troopships were originally escorted by destroyer VELOX and corvette CLOVER. The corvette was later relieved by destroyer VIMY. *** British destroyers LAFOREY, LEGION, LIGHTNING, GURKHA, and ISAAC SWEERS departed Gibraltar at 0400 and destroyers WISHART and BRADFORD departed at 1630 to carry out an anti submarine sweep. On 27 November, destroyer LEGION attacked a submarine contact at 35-40N, 07-26W. *** from my research notes. All best. don [FONT="] [/FONT]
