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First Ferry Load: Norfolk, Virginia to Cape Town
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Captain and Officers HMS Thane, Cape Town, 3rd
September 1944
BACK ROW:
S/Lt's Bushell, Arthur, Shipley, Thomson, Smith, Lt
Bradford, S/Lt's O'Connell, McNally, Davies, McCartney, Lt's Couzens,
Sharp, Lt's Osler, Osborne, S/Lt Thomas
FRONT ROW:
Lt Kenna, Lt Cdr's Hoare, Foxan, Goateley, Cdr Allan,
Captain Baker, Major Patch, Lt. Cdr Mitchell, Wiseman, Lt's Breden, S/Lt
McKelvey, Lt Brown.
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Chief
Petty Officers of HMS Thane with the First Lieutenant, Cape Town, 3rd
September 1944
BACK ROW: C.P.O.s Baldwin, Lord, Howells, Vansuckle, Caeeoll
MIDDLE
ROW: C.P.O.s Gilchrist, Bradley, More, Bentall, Dubois, Navim, Findlay
FRONT ROW: C.P.O.s Thompson, Hodgson, Commander Allan, C.P.O.s
Morris, Spencer
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Above: Two
shots of departmental officers
Below: Two
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Recreation - a giant 'Uckers' board on the flight deck and
crossing the line ceremony
Ferry Load: UK to Adabiya, Egypt
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Thane passes the KLM airline offices, Port Said on her return voyage to
the UK from Adabiya. [Photo: Maureen Ross] |
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Thane passes transiting the Suez Canal on her way to the military port
of Adabiya in the Gulf of Suez. [Photo: Ray Keena] |
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Thane unloads her cargo of
aircraft onto the quayside at the military harbour at Adabiya on the
Gulf of Suez
Dinner held on board Thane for
Lieutenant Colonel Cowley-Way R,M, at Suez.
November 21st 1944
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Celebration dinner upon Thane's safely reaching Belfast on her
final ferry run.
Officers of 1851 squadron bidding farewell to Thane in the wardroom
January 14th 1945.
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Yhe awesome scale of the damage caused by the torpedo
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Badly damaged and covered in fuel oil, two of the
hundreds of live shells that had to be removed from Thane's damaged
magazines. |
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Captain Baker and senior naval officers inspect the
ship.
Several of the cargo of Hoverfly helicopters remain on
board. |
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Photographs on this
page are from the collection of
the late Pay-Lieutenant Eric H. Grieve-Brown RNR,
kindly supplied by Mrs Maureen Ross
with additional photos from Mr. Ray Kenna
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