HMS Defiance: Devonport's Submarine Base

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in the afternoon a strong party of the 7th, or South Fencible regiment, and several officers, arrived on board. On the 20th, at 10 a.m., a general muster of the ship's company was made, and the eight men, previously in irons, together with three more, were placed in confinement, and others were subsequently added. A few days afterwards the South Fencibles were relieved by a detachment of the 134th Regt., in number 132, under Lieut.-Colonel Baillie, and with these the Defiance sailed from Leith and returned to the Nore. [3] Considering that HMS AFFRAY's casualties were without a proper Memorial for well over sixty years it is to the great resourcefulness and drive of Mr Martin Allen*(... son of 'Bert' Allen, a past President of the Essex Branch of the Submariners Association) that both Memorials are now established in their prominent positions - See: http://www.navy-net.co.uk/community/threads/submarine-affray-memorial-at-gosport.70360/ [originally from Billy Dobson who is no stranger to you] Thirteen of the figures, weighing a total of 20 tonnes, have been suspended from the ceiling of the atrium to a new museum and gallery in the maritime city of Plymouth, Devon.

Another challenge has been restoring the colour of the carvings. Experts carried out microscopic analysis of the paint the figureheads had been decorated with over the years. Badge arrived today and is just the job... Thanks for all your help... I've passed you details onto other veterans.

Defiance was the last ship to use the midsection design that Isaac Watts created for HMS James Watt. [3] Career [ edit ] QUOTE from part 8.5 "The senior electrical rating on board was only an Acting Petty Officer Electrician, entirely without sufficient experience to compete with any non-standard occurrence.UNQUOTE.

So to repeat , if anybody knows if and when Electrician's Mates became Electrical Mechanics I would be most grateful .As a 1960 vintage Junior Radio Electrical Mechanic I was sometimes made aware by certain elders of other (ahem lesser) branches that us ‘Mechanics’ were merely jumped up ‘Mates’ but I cannot help you with the change dates. I’d suggest that such changes would have been promulgated in an appropriate AFO around that time (and those were often notorious for being incorrectly indexed.) O'Byrne, William Richard (1898), "Spratt, James", in Lee, Sidney (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol.53, London: Smith, Elder & Co, p.424

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. HMS Defiance (1675) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1675. She was rebuilt in 1695, reduced to a fourth rate in 1716, hulked in 1743 and broken up in 1749.Funnily enough , even in my time when I was an Electrician on a submarine , I was known as the POLTO and friend of mine tells me that in his day on the SSBN , the Electrical PO was still known as the POLTO .

Captain F R Main, closed at Easter 1954 and moved to Portsmouth."Defiance III" (ex-Vulcan) was towed away in December 1955 and scrapped

This was not so --"Wire men" were recruited in WW2 from the ranks of civilian electricians and were released after the war . Many served in electric mine sweeping -- dodgy job . However they did NOT form the 1948 RN Electrical Branch , it was the older LTOs and lads like me . She was sold on 26 June 1931 to Castle's Shipbreaking Yard for dismantling at Millbay, Plymouth. [9] Doige's Annual for 1932 poignantly describes her as "the last of England's 'Wooden Walls'". Prior to the commissioning of H.M.S. Defiance in December 1884 for service as the Royal Navy’s Devonport Torpedo School, (The Navy’s first torpedo school had been set up on HMS Vernon at Portsmouth in 1876) only a limited amount of instruction had been given in torpedo warfare at Devonport by a Torpedo Lieutenant on board the Perseus, which was at that time attached to Cambridge, the Gunnery School of those days.