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HMS Bittern - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Bittern
Name : HMS Bittern
Laid Down : 18th February 1896
Launched : 1st February 1897
Completed : 1st April 1897
Type : Destroyer
Class : Avon
Builder : NC & A (Vickers)
Country : UK
Pennants : D03, D5A, D46, D10
Fate : Sunk in collision 4th April 1918.

Known Crew Details :

Name

Start of Service

End of Service

Known Date

Alfred D Large

18th December 1907

Richard C Lee

18th December 1907

Edmond J G Mackinnon

18th December 1907

Timeline Entries :


1st June 1897 - Launched
11th April 1899 - Placed into Chatham Fleet Reserve
5th June 1900 - Arrived Torbay for Manoeuvres
3rd January 1905 - Commissioned at Plymouth
June 1906 - Plymouth 3rd Flotilla
1st May 1912 - 7th Destroyer Flotilla (Devonport) (Nucleus Crew)
1914 - Cdr. Gordon Campbell in Command
1918 - Collided with another vessel and was lost

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Last edited : 21:52, January 5, 2012
By : jbryce1437

 

 

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The Fokker E II of Leutnant Kurt Freiherr von Crailsheim of FFA 53 is shown in formation with his wingman in a similar aircraft. Von Crailsheims aircraft bears his personalised markings of yellow, black and white diagonal bars on the fuselage, thought to represent his Military Merit Medal combined with the black and white of Prussia. The cross on the fuselage sides was applied in an unusually forward position. FFA 53 was based at Monthois late in 1915 and it was from this location that von Crailsheim made his final flight in this aircraft on 30th December.

Kurt von Crailsheim by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £40.00 		Flight Lieutenant Paul Binns from 16 Squadron, RAF Coltishall launches the Jaguar into another breathtaking display sequence.

Enter the Saint by Robert Tomlin. (Y)
Half Price! - £35.00 		When No 49 Squadron Lancasters bombed the S.S. barracks at Berchtesgaden on 25th April 1945, its aircrews completed a campaign that had begun 5 and a half years earlier in September, 1939. From the very beginning, 49 Squadron were in the thick of the action with one of their pilots, Roderick Learoyd, winning Bomber Commands first Victoria Cross. In 1942 it was Lancasters of 49 Squadron that led the epic raid on Schneider armament and locomotive works at Le Creusot. In 1943 they flew the shuttle-bombing raids to Friedrichshafen and Spezia, attacked the heavily defended rocket sites at Peenemunde, and in preparation for D-Day, bombarded the coastal batteries in Normandy and the V-1 sites in the caves by the river Loire, north of Paris. Later in 1944 the squadron notably took part in the raid on German Baltic Fleet, continuing to fly important bombing missions against the Nazi war machine until the final collapse of the Third Reich. So it was fitting that an RAF squadron whose history went right back to 1916, should make the coupe de grace at Berchtesgarden. Northern Europes short summer nights, with darkness lasting but a few hours, often saw the RAF bomber crews returning to England at dawn, and it is one such scene which is caught up over the river Orwell at Pin Mill, Lancasters of No. 49 Squadron descend low over Suffolk, heading towards their base at Fiskerton. The night raid on Hamburg is almost completed. Spitfires from No. 129 Squadron, based at Hornchurch, having made an early morning attack on German installations in Holland, have picked up the bombers and escorted them home.
Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian.
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Alouette III Helicopter of Rhodesian Fireforce 1979 by John Wynne Hopkins.
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RAF Mosquitos attack a German supply train.

Mosquito Bite by Geoff Lea. (P)
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Safe Return by Ivan Berryman.
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Gear Up - Go! by Ivan Berryman. (P)
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Two Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers of 810 Sqn, Fleet Air Arm, overfly the carrier HMS Theseus during the Korean War.

HMS Theseus by Ivan Berryman.
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Queen Elizabeth at Southampton by Ivan Berryman. (P)
Half Price! - £1400.00 		HMS Eagle and the commando carrier HMS Albion during the withdrawal from Aden in November 1967. One of HMS Eagles Sea Vixen is passing overhead and RFA Stromness is at anchor in the distance.

HMS Eagle and HMS Albion by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		HMS Glowworm, burning severely after receiving hits from the mighty Admiral Hipper, is depicted turning to begin her heroic sacrifice off the Norwegian coast on 8th April 1940. Hugely out-gunned and already crippled, Glowworms captain, Lieutenant-Commander Roope rammed his destroyer into the side of the Admiral Hipper, inflicting a 40 metre rip in its armour belt before drifting away and exploding. 38 British sailors were rescued from the sea and Roope was awarded a posthumous VC for his bravery, the first earned by the Royal Navy in WWII.

The Attack on the Admiral Hipper by HMS Glowworm by Ivan Berryman (AP)
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Originally constructed as a Home Fleet Repair Ship, HMS Cyclops was later converted into a submarine depot ship and enjoyed a long career, both in the Mediterranean and in home waters. Here she prepares to receive HMS Sceptre. Another S-class submarine is already tethered alongside.

HMS Cyclops Prepares to Receive HMS Sceptre by Ivan Berryman (AP)
Half Price! - £45.00 		Shrouded in secrecy, the fleet gathers alongside the Semaphore tower and under cover of dusk begins to move out to the channel preparing for its daunting task.

Prelude to D-Day by Bill Bishop. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		On 17th June 1944, 780 miles west of Saipan in Mid Pacific, the Gato class submarine USS Cavalla dives after a lucky sighting of a Japanese Naval Task Force, which included the aircraft carriers Taiho, Shokaku and Zuikaku. The Cavalla then trailed the Japanese, attacking and sinking the Shokaku on the 19th.

A Chance Encounter by Robert Barbour (AP)
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Enter the Prince by Anthony Saunders. (Y)
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9th Hussars of Napoleons Army of 1806.

An Affair of Outposts by J P Beadle (Y)
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The Veteran at Home by Horace Vernet. (Y)
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Napoleon at Boulogne by Maurice Orange. (Y)
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March Past of the Grenadier Guards by Mark Churms.
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Depicting French Cuirassiers charging onto the British squares during the Battle of Waterloo.

The Battle of Waterloo by Felix Philippoteaux. (Y)
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The Kaisers Battle, Operation Michael, France, 21st March 1918 by David Pentland. (GL)
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Valentino Rossi on his way to a seventh Moto GP World Championship in the 2009 season on his Yamaha, scoring thirteen podium finishes, including six race wins, leaving him 45 points clear of his nearest rival.

Valentino Rossi by Ivan Berryman. (P)
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Nicky Butt by Gary Keane.
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Down to the Wire by Robert Tomlin.
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