Tag: ww1-1915-03-08

TRIBUNE built 1913
09/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
02/1918 Renamed Tribune II

Her Details are 

• Official Number
• Admiralty Number 1847
• GT 293
• Armament 1-6pdr AA 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower

08/03/1915 Ran aground near Reyjanes Iceland

Okino built 27/01/1914 for H L Taylor & H G Hopwood Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
08/03/1915 Smyrna Blockade – Lt Geoffrey Whitehouse RNR in command, sweeping channel into Smyrna [Izmir] at night to allow battleships to close and bombard the forts, battleships Triumph and Swiftsure firing on the searchlights. 
Night of 8th Mined and sunk about 3,000yds from Fort Yeni Kali, South side of Gulf of Smyrna 10 crew lost, skipper and four men saved 

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
Appleyard	Ernest	Unknown	08/03/1915	Deck Hand	Okino
Beer	Charles	Unknown	08/03/1915	Signal Boy	Okino
Cummings	Roderick T	Unknown	08/03/1915	Deck Hand	Okino
Fisher	Ernest A	Unknown	08/03/1915	2nd Hand	Okino
Hill	Thomas	Unknown	08/03/1915	Deck Hand	Okino
Ingram	Benjamin S	Unknown	08/03/1915	Deck Hand	Okino
Nicol	William R	Unknown	08/03/1915	Deck Hand	Okino
Sheperd	Alexander	Unknown	08/03/1915	Trimmer	Okino
Smith	William	Unknown	08/03/1915	Engineman 2c	Okino
Wright	Alfred J	Unknown	08/03/1915	Petty Officer 2c	Okino

Her Details are

• Official Number 135992
• Yard Number 590
• Admiralty Number 285
• GT 241 NT 94
• Dimensions 119.0 x 22.0 x 11.0
• Engines Amos & Smith 72 rhp 3 cyl 10.0 knots

Mined 08/03/1915 near Yeni Cale Gulf of Smyrna Dardanels whilst in Admiralty Service
Registry Closed 22/11/1915