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First Ferry Load:  Norfolk, Virginia to Cape Town

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.

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

Above: Two shots of departmental officers

Below: Two shots of departmental Senior Rates

Recreation - a giant 'Uckers' board on the flight deck and crossing the line ceremony

 Ferry Load:  UK to Adabiya, Egypt

Left: Thane passes the KLM airline offices, Port Said on her return voyage to the UK from Adabiya. Right: Thane passes transiting the Suez Canal on her way to the military port of Adabiya in the Gulf of Suez. [Photo: Ray Keena]

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

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.

|Torpedo damage

Above left: Yhe awesome scale of the damage caused by the torpedo blast can be full seen in this, and the six preceding photographs.. Above right: Badly damaged and covered in fuel oil, two of the hundreds of live shells that had to be removed from Thane's damaged magazines.

Captain Baker and senior naval officers inspect the ship.

Several of the cargo of Hoverfly helicopters remain on board.

HMS THANE never returned to active service, she was laid up and after the war was broken for scrap. This photo shows her with her radar and armament removed prior to her disposal.