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WILDFIRE III (Queenborough)

HMS ST TUDNO MINESWEEPER BASE SHIP.
ML221. Tender to St Tudno at the Scheldt.

Charles Houghton's Story

DRIFTERS AND TRAWLERS

ARONIA. (at Dunkirk.)
ARCTIC HUNTER
GIRL NANCY, (at Dunkirk)
JACK EVE, (at Dunkirk)

MONARDA (at Dunkirk)
 LOST.
RENASCENT, (at Dunkirk)
AMROTH CASTLE  (Castle Class Minesweeper)
ARCADY.
BEN GLAS. 
(At D-day. Smoke Making Trawler.)
BERNARD SHAW.
BOY ALAN.LOST
BOY PHILIP.
CAPRICORNUS.  LOST
CONQUISTADOR.LOST
​​​DELPHINUS.
DEVON COUNTY.LOST.
​EARL ESSEX.
EARL ESSEX. Will Davies Story.
EDWARDIAN.LOST.
EGERIA.
ELSIE CAM.
EMILION.LOST
EUNICE & NELLIE
FENTONIAN. (At D-Day. Fuel Carrier )
FIREFLY.  SEVERELY DAMAGED
FORCE.  Mersey Class Minesweeper.LOST.
FORERUNNER. LOST
GILT EDGE.
GO AHEAD. LOST.
HEROINE.  (At D-day. Smoke Making Trawler.)
INTERNOS.
INVERCAULD
KENNYMORE.LOST
LARCH.
LIBERIA.
LIBYAN.
LUCIENNE JEANNELOST
MALACOLITE. (Castle Class Minesweeper)
MILFORD PRINCE  ( Castle Class Minesweeper. At D-Day. Dan Buoy Layer)
MYRTLE. (Tree Class Minesweeper)LOST
​​PELAGOS. (Castle Class)
PETER CAREY.  (Castle Class)
PYPROPE.LOST.
RECEPTIVE.  LOST.
RICHARD CROFTS. (Castle Class Minesweeper)
RUDILAIS  (Castle Class) 
SANSON.
SATURN.
SOLSTICE. (Admiralty Trawler.)
SORANUS. (At D-day. Dan Buoy Layer)
ST OLIVE.
STAUNCH.
SUNLIGHT. (Strath Class) 
TAMARISK.LOST. Survivors machine gunned.
THOMAS CONNOLLY.  (Castle Class)LOST
TILBURYNESS.(Castle Class Minesweeper)LOST
TILLY DUFF
TOCSIN.  (At D-day. Smoke Making Trawler.)
VERNAL.
WARDOUR. Photos at Queenborough. SEVERELY DAMAGED
WELCOME HOME.
WINDWARD HO.
ZAREBA.

WILDFIRE III QUEENBOROUGH, WILDFIRE SHEERNESS

SHIP DATABASE.

WILDFIRE (Sheerness)

​​SHEERNESS DESTROYERS.

CAMPBELL,         (D 60) 
CATTISTOCK,      (L 35)
COTTESMORE    (L 78)
   John  Brownless's story
   Gordon Catt's story.
GARTH                  (L 20)
   Les Jones's story. Garth.
   ​Fred Stokes's story. Garth.
   Lieut. Anderson, Garth.
   Duncan Campbell, Garth
​   
Lieut. Bilsland, Garth
HOLDERNESS     (L 48)

    Quentin Younghusband’s  Story​ HMS Holderness
MENDIP               (L 60)

   Ernie Ellis Invasion of Italy.
MEYNELL             (L 82)
PYTCHLEY            (L 92)
VANESSA             (D 29)
VEGA                    (L 41)
VENETIA,            (D 53)  LOST
VESPER                (D 55)
VIMY,                    (D33)
VIVACIOUS          (D 36)
   Wally Sockhill Vivacoius
   ​Fred Weight, Vivacious.

SHEERNESS CRUISERS
CALCUTTA.   LOST

SHEERNESS RIVER GUNBOATS.
LOCUST

  Diary of D-Day George  Calow ​
   Alfred Miller's Story.
   Walter Rudland's Story
MOSQUITO LOST
​   
Walter Adams Story.

SHEERNESS ARMED YACHTS.
(Of "Little Ships of Dunkirk" fame)
AMULREE,  LOST
CALETA,
CHRISTOBEL II,
GLALA.

SHEERNESS "LITTLE SHIPS OF DUNKIRK"
(Based at Sheerness)
ALOUETTE II
JOVIAL
NAYLAND
QUEEN BOADICEA II
THELMAR

MISCELLANEOUS SHIP BASED AT SHEERNESS
(Of Dunkirk Fame.)

RAF Motor-boat R-101. (Air Sea Rescue. Was at Dunkirk.)
​MONA'S ISLE, Armed Boarding Vessel.​
GOLDEN EAGLE, auxiliary anti-air craft ship.
ROYAL EAGLE, auxiliary anti-air craft ship.

JEANIE DEANS. Anti Aircraft Ship (Picked up survivors from HMS Vimeria .

OTHER VESSELS BASED AT SHEERNESS

MOTOR LAUNCH, ML 916. LOST

CARRY ON. LOST

OCEAN RETRIVER. LOST

VAN MEERLANT  LOST

HASLEMERE  attempted to rescue Amy Johnson.

SPARSHOLD, Boom Mooring Lighter. LOST.

ML 221 tender to St Tudno.

HMS Roebuck, Mobile Balloon Vessel.  (Dunkirk)

SHIPS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH WILDFIRE.

WESTWARD HO. 
​(at Dunkirk)


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