RN ship losses

I know, I've been there (a beautiful place). She was mined off Bardsey but was probably beached, if she was beached, not on the island but on the mainland coast nearby. But she may simply have sunk, sources differ. I hope someone with access to more information can shed light on her final fate.

The Cricket-class TBDs, of which TB.11 was one, were sometimes classed as 'coastal destroyers' and had a complement of 39. HMS Coquette had a complement of 65. The death toll for both in this incident was tragically high.

Yes, a French 28-gun frigate captured in 1783 was the first HMS Coquette.

7 Mar 1942 // Tug HMS St Sampson was damaged while towing burnt-out troopship Georgic in the Red Sea, and sank as a result, all members of her crew being rescued by hospital ship Dorsetshire. The Georgic was salvaged, reconstructed, and returned to service. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

7 Mar 1918 // Oiler RFA Vitol, sailing from Liverpool to Queenstown, hit a mine laid by U-boat U.110 in the Irish Sea off Bardsey Island. Some reports say she sank, others that she was beached as a constructive loss. Four of her crew died. #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

7 Mar 1917 // HM Trawler Vivanti, a Grimsby boat in use as a minesweeper, failed to make a rendezvous off Eastbourne, having last been seen the previous evening. Debris and a boat from the Vivanti were washed up near Hastings and she was presumed lost to a mine with all 13 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW1

7 Mar 1916 // HM Submarine E5 was lost with all 31 crew off Schiermonnikoog in the Dutch Frisian Islands, possibly mined, but cause of loss unconfirmed. Her wreck, found in 2016, showed no signs of enemy action and had hatches open. (Imperial War Museum image Q 74842) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

7 Mar 1916 // Destroyer HMS Coquette struck a mine laid by German submarine UC.10 in the North Sea off Clacton, and sank with the loss of 22 men. Torpedo boat TB.11, which had closed to assist, struck another of UC.10's mines and also sank, with 24 men killed. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

7 Mar 1815 // While making for Berbice, Guiana, brig-sloop HMS Cygnet ran aground on a sandbank off the mouth of the Courantyne River. After being lightened she floated free, but grounded again and began to flood. She was then run ashore and abandoned. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The English ship London depicted by Willem van der Velde the elder c1656. Image courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich: National Maritime Museum collection ref PAG6182. Description: a drawing in line and wash of the hull of a large 3-deck sailing ship, seen from the port side with her bows to the left. A large flag is flying from the stern.

7 Mar 1665 (O.S.) // 76-gun HMS London, at anchor in the Thames Estuary, was wrecked by an explosion. Over 300 died: 23 men and 1 woman survived when they were blown clear. The wreck, of great archaeological importance, was found in 2005. (National Maritime Museum image) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Incredible story of survival by the merest chance!

6 Mar 1945 // Midget submarine HMS XE.II, exercising in Loch Striven, collided with the Norina, a net barrier tender. Norina's turning screws sliced open her hull and she sank immediately. Two of her crew were able to get out using escape apparatus, but three men died. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

6 Mar 1941 // HM Tug Sun VII, one of the 'Sun' fleet of Thames tugs operated by the firm of W. H. J. Alexander, and a Dunkirk veteran, struck a mine at Barrow Deep in the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of five of her crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

6 Mar 1941 // HM Trawler Keryado, a French boat seized in 1940 and serving as a minesweeper, was sailing with other trawlers from Dover to Swansea when she struck a mine off Beachy Head. Two violent explosions destroyed her, with the loss of 9 of her 21 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

6 Mar 1838 // 5-gun schooner HMS Pincher was in the Channel in company with HMS Volage when both ran into a powerful squall off Selsey Bill. The Volage recovered, but the Pincher disappeared. Her wreck was found some days later, capsized and submerged. No survivors. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

6 Mar 1811 // 10-gun schooner HMS Thistle came ashore south of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, because of mistakes in her charts. She capsized, throwing men into the surf: four men were drowned trying to reach the shore. Her wreck was eventually sold to a local man for $135. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

5 Mar 1942 // Tug HMS Wo Kwang, sailing from Java to Australia with evacuees from Singapore and survivors from other ships, was sunk by Japanese destroyers south of Java. About 40 people died; 18 men escaped in a boat but only two survived to reach land 24 days later. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

5 Mar 1918 // HM Drifter William Tennant, a Kirkcaldy boat employed as a net barrier tender at Grimsby, sank after colliding with steamer SS Principal in the Humber Estuary. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

5 Mar 1917 // HM Drifter Campania II, a Buckie boat employed as a net barrier tender on Tyneside, disappeared off the Northumbrian coast amid gale-force winds and snow. 12 men were lost. Eight bodies and debris from the drifter washed up at Anstruther, Fife, on 6 March. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

5 Mar 1916 // HM Trawler Calliope II, a Milford Haven boat in use as a minesweeper, was run into by Norwegian steamer Dane north of the Butt of Lewis, and sank with the loss of one man. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

5 Mar 1807 // Gun-brig HMS Pigmy (14 guns) ran aground off the Île d'Oléron in the early hours during a squall, because of mistakes by the pilot. At dawn they were seen and fired on by a nearby fort and forced to surrender. All on board became French prisoners of war. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

It's so very grim.

117 of her crew died. 34 survived but when their raft was found on 9 March by Dutch submarine K.XI only 13 were still alive. Despite Yarra's courageous defence all ships in the convoy were sunk, with few survivors. [3/3] (Image: Australian War Memorial 016263) #RoyalAustralianNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

The Yarra then attacked the overwhelmingly superior enemy force, battling for over an hour to protect her convoy before she succumbed to gunfire from the cruisers. She continued to fire on the enemy even while heavily damaged and listing. Her guns only fell silent when she sank. [2/3]

Sloop HMAS Yarra. Image: Australian War Memorial: 016263. Description: a side view of a small warship painted in a camouflage pattern, her bows to the left. She is at anchor with land visible behind her.

4 Mar 1942 // At sunrise, sloop HMAS Yarra, escorting southwards from Java a convoy of three vessels which had earlier escaped from Singapore, sighted a squadron of three Japanese cruisers and four destroyers. The Yarra ordered the convoy to scatter and deployed a smokescreen. [1/3]

4 Mar 1916 // HM Trawler Flicker, a Hull boat in use as a patrol vessel at Dover, disappeared overnight on 4/5 March while on patrol, presumed sunk by a submarine-laid mine off Dover. All fourteen crew died. Just one body was recovered. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

4 Mar 1843 // Paddle sloop HMS Megaera ran aground and broke up on Bare Bush Key, Jamaica, having just left Port Royal to cross the Gulf of Mexico to Veracruz. The loss was blamed on a strong current, but the court martial told her captain to be more careful in future. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

'Loss of the Blanche, March 4th 1807', aquatint by Thomas Sutherland after Thomas Whitcombe, 1807. British Museum: museum no. 1871,1111.645. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum, Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

4 Mar 1807 // 38-gun frigate HMS Blanche (ex Spanish Amfitrite, captured 1804) went off course and was wrecked on rocks off Ushant with 45 men lost. Her compasses were deflected by ironwork in her hull. ('Loss of the Blanche' 1807 print: British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) #RoyalNavy

4 Mar 1706 (O.S.) // 4-gun hoy HMS John and Sarah, serving as tender to HMS Dorsetshire, was approached by a group of ships in poor visibility off the Isle of Wight. They turned out to be French privateers. After one fired into her with cannon and muskets, she surrendered. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

4 Mar 1653 (O.S.) // English Navy ships Samson (40 guns), Peregrine (30 guns) and Levant Merchant (28 guns) were all lost at the Battle of Leghorn. The Samson blew up after being disabled and attacked by a fireship, and Peregrine and Levant Merchant were captured after hard fighting. #NavalHistory