|
Date of Arrival |
Place |
Date of Departure |
Orders, Remarks etc |
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7.2.41 |
Rosyth |
26.2.41 |
8/2 From C in C Rosyth:
HEBE is delayed by collision damage
31/2 Completion date of
HEBE is 19/2 unless bad weather causes further delay
24/2 Completes 25/2 |
|
After repairs, HEBE
escorted the Forth to Thames Convoy FS22, and then a single
ship named PASS OF LENY who was under tow by the tug SEA GIANT. |
|
1.3.41 |
Harwich |
7.3.41
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10.3.41 |
Harwich |
? |
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|
13.3.41 |
Newhaven |
14.3.41 |
Arrived 1137, sailed 0902 (14th)
in company with Bramble, Britomart, Niger, Sharpshooter and Speedy
(Source Peter Mason) |
|
16.3.41 |
Newhaven |
18.3.41 |
Arrived 1710, sailed 0711 (18th)
in company with Bramble, Niger, Seagull and Speedy
(Source Peter Mason) |
|
20.3.41 |
Portsmouth |
21.3.41 |
|
|
? |
Portsmouth |
22.3.41 |
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25.3.41 |
Newhaven |
26.3.41 |
Arrived 1551, sailed 1526 (26th)
(Source Peter Mason) |
|
With Bramble, HEBE
performed a Dungeness to Portsmouth mine sweep after more repairs on
the Thames. |
|
27.3.41 |
Harwich |
31.3.41 |
29/3 From F O i/c
Harwich: HEBE requires docking for repairs to port propeller thrust
block damaged due to fouling buoy mooring. Request dock may be
allocated. |
|
31.3.41 |
London |
? |
1/4 from F O i/c London:
HEBE taken in hand by Green and Silley Weir, Blackwall. Vessel docking
on 4th inst. To ascertain extent of underwater damage
8/5 Intend sailing HEBE
10/5 for Sheerness for fuel and ammunition and onward routing
8/5 From C in C Nore:
Intend sailing HEBE to Rosyth with FN65 11/5, she will act as
additional escort while on passage |
|
10.5.41 |
Sheerness |
11.5.41 |
|
|
13.5.41 |
Rosyth |
13.5.41 |
|
Following the loss or damage of so many escorts at Dunkirk it was
decided to bring the Halcyons into the Western Approaches Command to
act as local escorts at the UK end of the convoy routes. They were
ideally suited to this role of escorts, being fitted with both Asdic
and more recently with the new Radar (271 sets). Bramble, Britomart,
Hazard and HEBE were based at Stornoway although their activities took
then to several other ports including Oban, Inverary, Aultbea,
Londonderry, the Clyde and Iceland. Normal minesweeping duties were
carried out when not required as escorts, although they were ready at
immediate notice to be sent off for patrol or escort duties.
HEBE therefore escorted
the following Western Approaches Convoys between 19 May and 13
September 1941: HX125, OB327, HX128, OB336,
SC34, OB343, HX136, HX139, ON5,
SC39, SC40, HX145 and ONM16. These duties
usually lasted three or four days ‑ the first or last legs of convoy
passages ‑ on the vital North Atlantic run.
|
|
14.5.41 |
Aberdeen |
14.5.41 |
0600 Hebe arrived
1300 HMS Bramble, HMS
Seagull, HMS Sharpshooter and HMS Hebe sailed in company .(War
Diary, Aberdeen) |
|
16.5.41 |
Inverary |
17.5.41 |
5/6 From C in C W A:
British Chivalry is to be diverted to Loch Ewe and is to be escorted
by HEBE, Seagull and Sharpshooter |
|
6.6.41 |
Stornoway |
6.6.41 |
|
|
6.6.41 |
Aberdeen |
12.6.41 |
|
|
? |
Stornoway |
18.6.41 |
|
|
? |
Stornoway |
12.7.41 |
27/6 From S O 1st
MSF: Should visit Londonderry for A/S training on completion of escort
duties about 16/7 |
|
? |
Stornoway |
23.7.41 |
25/7 From FO i/c Glasgow:
There seems little chance of HEBE in hand in the Clyde before the end
of August |
|
31.7.41 |
Aberdeen |
6.8.41 |
|
|
18.8.41 |
Londonderry |
26.8.41 |
|
|
30.8.41 |
Loch Ewe |
? |
Escorting HX145U |
|
6.9.41 |
Belfast |
9.9.41 |
|
|
11.9.41 |
Milford Haven |
? |
|
|
14.9.41 |
Belfast |
9.11.41 |
16/9 From FO i/c Belfast:
HEBE taken in hand for conversion for service in Arctic etc, completes
9/11 |
|
? |
Belfast |
10.11.41 |
9/11 Sailing delayed due
to weather conditions |
|
10.11.41 |
Rothesay |
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Greenock |
16.11.41 |
11/11 From FOIC Greenock:
Ranging for HEBE completed
13/11 From C in C Home
Fleet: HEBE to sail for North Russia. No definite date. Should arrive
Scapa as soon as practicable |
|
17.11.41 |
Scapa |
18.11.41 |
HEBE,
Sharpshooter and Hazard were detailed to escort Convoy PQ5 to
Archangel. In fact they escorted four of this convoy's seven ships
from Kirkwall to Hvalfjord. |
|
23.11.41 |
Iceland |
? |
|
|
27.11.41 |
At sea |
8.12.41 |
Sharpshooter, Hazard and
HEBE provide part of Ocean escort for PQ5 (7 ships) from
Hvalfjord. Sharpshooter remained with the convoy all the way to
Archangel, arriving 13/12. On 7/12 Bramble and Seagull joined as local
eastern escort, allowing Hazard and HEBE to detach to Murmansk with
the cruiser Sheffield arriving 8/12. There was no enemy activity. |
|
8.12.41 |
Murmansk |
? |
|
|
26.12.41 |
Murmansk |
? |
|
|
29.12.41 |
At sea |
? |
Bramble and
HEBE acted as local eastern escort to QP4. No enemy activity.
|
|
For a time HEBE was
employed locally in North Russian waters; with BRAMBLE she escorted
two of Convoy QP4's ships, SAN AMBROSIO and EULIMA, from
Archangel to Murmansk. |
