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Lt Commander Stephen Halden Beattie VC, captain of the Campbletown during the raid. Beattie was a contemporary of Commander Ryder the men having been shipmates during their days as cadets.
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Steel plating has been welded to Campbletown wheelhouse to give some protection from smaller calibre weapons. The forward 4in. gun has been replaced by a quicker firing 12-pdr.
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HMS Campbletown's fire power was boosted for the raid by the addition of eight 20mm Mark I Gerlikon guns. Four were mounted amidships whilst four were installed on these elevated platforms called 'bandstands'. ...
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HMS Campbletown alongside in Devonport dockyard having arrived from the USA in September 1940. As yet unmodified for the Royal Navy she is still showing her US Naval identity (DD131) as USS Buchanan.
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Commander Robert Edward Dudley Ryder VC Naval Force COmmander for Operation Chariot. Prior to the raid he had been occupying a desk job at Wilton House in Wiltshire as a result of incurring the Admiralty's ...
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The model used during the planning and training for the raid. Now on display in the IWM.
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The liner Normandie the pride of the French maritime fleet in the massive dry dock in St Nazaire before the war. In the foreground is the winding shed with the long water-filled camber linking it to the ...
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The town and port of St Nazaire lying on the Western side of the River Loire six miles from the sea. The Normandie Dock (Forme Ecluse Louis Joubert) is seen lying at an angle near the mid top of the picture. ...
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Sergeant Thomas Frank Durrant VC posthumously recieved the ultimate honour after his brave and stubborn fight against overwhelming odds at the gun of ML 306 during its naval battle with the German destroyer ...
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Stuck fast on the Southern Caisson of the Normandie Dock HMS Campbletown displays the scars of its contribution with the German coast defence guns. In the water in the foreground can be seen the remains ...
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The submarine HMS Sturgeon lay in wait off the mouth of the River Loire in order to provide a very precise navigational beacon for the raiders.
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MGB 314 was from 14 Motor Gun Boat Flotilla and was a fairmile C Class launch. Her three Hall-Scott engines gave her a maximum speed of 26 knots. She was quite strongly armed for a small craft with a very ...
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HMS Princess Josephine Charlotte a converted Belgian cross-Channel ferry used by the commandos as a landing ship. It was also an accommodation vessel for the troops whilst in Falmouth harbour.
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This photograph was taken just after the raid with the Normandie Dock open to the tidal waters of the Loire. The annotated print highlights some of the successes of the attack, with the concreete dam on ...
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The northern winding shed after Lt Purdon and his demolition team got to work on it. The remains of the great wheels providing the momentum to draw the caisson along its chamber can be clearly seen in ...
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Fairmile 'B' Class Launch the most numerous of the small vessels used in the raid. This illustration shows the type of motor launch but not one that actually took part in the St Nazaire operation. Its ...
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Two of the HMS Campbletowns four funnels were removed and blanked off whilst the two forward stacks were modified to help give the outline of a German Mowe class destroyer. These funnels were shortened ...
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Part of the deception plan was to refit Campbletown in a way that made her resemble one of the German Mowe class destroyers such as the one shown here. The most distinctive feature of this class of warship ...
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A naval officer and his wife pose with the officers of 2 Commando. Lt Col Newman is in the centre with his pipe and stick. On the extreme left of the front row is Major Bill Copeland, Newman's second in ...
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