HMS Ramillies

Built at Beardmore and completed at Cammell Laird. HMS Ramillies was launched on the 12th September 1916.. During World War Two HMS Ramillies took part in the bombardment of Bardia, August 18th 1940. She also took part in the Battle of Cape Teudada. On the 7th May 1942 in the bombardment of Diego Saurez (Madagascar) she was torpedoed by Japanese midget submarine on the 30th May 1942. After repairs she took part in the bombardment of German positions during D-Day as well as bombardment of Southern France She was scrapped at Cairn Ryan on the 23rd April 1948, and finally scrapping Ramillies Hull was finished at Troon October 1949. Compliment 1146, Armament 8 15-inch Guns (4 x 2) 12 6-inch guns. 8 4-inch A.A Guns and 16 . 2 pounder AA guns and one aircraft. Displacement 29,150 tons, Speed 21.5 knots.

The following story is donated by Joseph Hayes Todd whose father, Robert William Todd serving on USS Duntroon in 1942, participated in the food fight: During February, 1942, my father, Robert William Todd, a soldier in the U.S. Army Air Corp, was at sea for about one month (his estimate) en route from Melbourne, Australia to Colombo, Ceylon. During this time the meals aboard ship were the same three orbs each day: a boiled potato, a boiled egg and an orange. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, day after day. Finally his ship arrived in port at Colombo and tied up next to the HMS Ramillies. The crews began talking back and forth and someone on the Duntroon tossed an orange, egg or potato at the crew of the Ramillies. Well, the crew of the Ramillies duly returned fire with same food item. Quickly there was hundreds of salvos fired, pounds of food airborn at once, and a huge mess and a good laugh. In the end, both crews had to clean the ships thoroughly, but what could commanders do, discipline thousands, or entire crews of two ships? Wasting government property (food) was a serious offense, at least on the U.S. side, but everyone seemed guilty.

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