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Date of Arrival |
Place |
Date of Departure |
Orders, Remarks etc |
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17.1.40 |
Liverpool |
19.1.40 |
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20.1.40 |
Belfast |
26.1.40 |
For Rothesay |
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26.1.40 |
Greenock |
6.2.40 |
For Belfast |
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6.2.40 |
Belfast |
23.2.40 |
For Lamlash
7/2 From Naval Officer
i/c Belfast: JASON will be taken in hand 8/2 for repairs, refit and
degaussing and to give leave. Date of completion will be reported
after docking and examination of damage.
Date for completion of
JASON is 19/2
24/3 To rendezvous with
Carentha? and escort her to position where destroyers will be met. |
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Belfast
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23.4.40 |
Escorting tanker Sepia
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28.4.40 |
Scapa |
28.4.40 |
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2.5.40 |
Scapa |
3.5.40 |
Escorting |
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5.5.40 |
Clyde |
5.5.40 |
To rendezvous with
Marauder and Burlington and escort to Clyde |
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7.5.40 |
Belfast |
13.5.40 |
9/6 North County and
JASON to ? Eros and assist in salvage of cargo. |
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11.6.40 |
Belfast |
17.6.40 |
0940 2/7 From Naval
Officer i/c Greenock: Proceed forthwith to position 56° 20’ north
10° 40’ west where Arandora Star was torpedoed at 0610
2159 2/7 From NO i/c
Greenock: If there are no further signs of survivors JASON return to
Clyde |
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3.8.40 |
Belfast |
22.8.40 |
3/8 Taken in hand
Harland & Wolff, Belfast for defects of boiler. Date of completion
19/8
4/8 It is approved to
dock and take in hand such defects as can be completed concurrently
with boiler repairs
D of D 5/8 Taken in
hand 8/8. Docking and essential repairs. Completes 19/8
19/8 From C in C
Western Approaches: JASON has been transferred for administrative
purposes to Greenock command. Accounts will be transferred to Spartiate on 1/9 |
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23.8.40 |
Greenock |
24.8.40 |
1/9 From C in C W
Approaches: JASON joined Northern Escort Force. |
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At 19:58/28th
August, convoy HX 66, consisting of 53(?) ships in 8 columns
was in position 58 06N 13 ?6W. The escort consisted of Mackay,
Jason, Hibiscus and Heartsease. Heartsease
was chasing stragglers (there's a diagram here, showing Mackay
in a location at the front and to the right of the convoy, Jason
at the front middle of convoy, and Heartsease at the rear,
while the merchant Kyno is noted at the very front in the
left column, in other words, station 11).
It was broad
daylight, visibility was good; there was a biggish sea which made
asdic conditions bad for sloops and corvettes; one in four of
Mackay's impulses quenched and Heartsease's impulses
quenched almost continuously.
The convoy was
due to "split" when the Commanding Officer of Mackay heard an
explosion; there was very little concussion, "it sounded almost like
a gun." Mackay and the Commodore of the convoy agreed that
the explosion was not like a torpedo and the possibility of a mine
occurred to both. The escorting vessels proceeded as shown in the
diagram (the diagram shows Mackay still in position to the
front right of convoy, Jason in the front middle and
Hibiscus to the front left of the convoy, with arrows drawn from
Jason and Mackay towards the left of convoy and the
word "search"). Mackay and Jason carried out a search
in the direction shown up to 6 miles from the convoy without
results, they then rejoined the convoy which had now "split".
Source:
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx66.html |
|
30.8.40 |
With
HIBISCUS, escorted the Methil portion of HX66A (19 ships); attacked
north of the Minches and three ships sunk by U32.
Commodore of HX 66A (after
HX 66 had split at rendezvous point on Aug. 28) was H. C. Allen in
Cairnesk, and Vice Commodore was Captain J. Davitt in
Esmond. Escorts were HMS Jason and HMS Hibiscus,
from "split position to arrival Firth of Forth (Methil)". Air
escort was present during "daylight hours Thursday 29th August and
periodically during 30th and 31st August 1940." This part of the
convoy consisted of 19 ships, 16 were still present upon arrival,
3 ships having been sunk as follows:
Commodore Allen's
notes for HX 66A - dated Aug. 31-1940:
British S.S. Mill Hill, British Chelsea and
Norwegian Norne,
all torpedoed and sunk between 01:25 and 01:40 on Friday 30th
August 1940 in approximate position 58 48N 06 50W
Source:
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx66.html |
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31.8.40 |
Rosyth |
6.9.40 |
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6.9.40 |
Rosyth |
6.9.40 |
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15.9.40 |
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Survivors from the SS Aska,
which had been bombed between Rathlin Island and Maidens Rock, were
transferred by fishing boats to HMS Jason. Aska was carrying 350
French troops from West Africa to Liverpool.
Source:
http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/Troopships2.html
15/9 from NO i/c
Greenock: JASON leave Harpenden off Ailsa Craig and proceed with all
despatch to Greenock. Berth alongside Prince’s Pier Head to land
survivors.
15/9 Proceed to
Londonderry to land your survivors and rejoin Harpenden.
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16.9.40 |
Greenock |
17.9.40 |
16/9 From FO i/c
Greenock: Arrived with about 440 survivors from SS Aska.
16/9 In
collision with rescue tug SCHELDT; stem bent to 40 feet below deck |
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19.9.40 |
Rosyth |
28.9.40 |
Repaired Rosyth 20-23
Sept 1940 |
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25.9.40 |
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HMS Jason (Lt.Cdr. R.E.
Terry) picks up 18 survivors from the British merchant
Mabriton that
was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine
U-32
west-southwest of Rockall in position 56º12'N, 23º00'W.
Source:
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3677.html |
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8.10.40 |
Rosyth |
14.10.40 |
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19.10.40 |
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Part of the escort to
HX79 (49 ships) when the convoy was attacked by two U-boats west of
Rockall. Ten ships sunk on 19th, two on 20th and one, torpedoed on
19th sank on 21st.
HMS Jason (Lt.Cdr. R.E.
Terry) picks up 39 survivors from the Dutch merchant
Bilderdijk
that was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position
56º35'N, 17º15'W by the German submarine
U-38.
HMS Jason also picks
up 40 survivors from the British merchant
Uganda that
was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position 56º35'N,
17º15'W by the German submarine
U-47
Source:
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3677.html |
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20.10.40 |
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HMS Jason (Lt.Cdr. R.E.
Terry) picks up 111 survivors from the British merchant
Loch Lomond
that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine
U-100
southwest of Rockall in position 56º00'N, 14º30'W.
Source:
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3677.html |
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21.10.40 |
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21/10 From C in C W
Approaches: Propose if C in C Rosyth concurs to transfer JASON to
his command on completion of present duties.
24/10 From NO i/c
Methil: JASON and Hibiscus have landed survivors at Methil from
Bilerdyk, Uganda, Loch Lomond, Matheran, Janus, Sandsend |
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24.10.40 |
Rosyth |
26.10.40 |
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31.10.40 |
Rosyth |
5.11.40 |
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8.11.40 |
Rosyth |
8.11.40 |
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11.11.40 |
Rosyth |
14.11.40 |
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17.11.40 |
Rosyth |
20.11.40 |
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23.11.40 |
Rosyth |
28.11.40 |
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1.12.40 |
Rosyth |
4.12.40 |
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7.12.40 |
Rosyth |
10.12.40 |
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14.12.40 |
Rosyth |
22.12.40 |
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25.12.40 |
Rosyth |
28.12.40 |
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