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HMS Flirt
HMS Flirt
This community really come about because I kept on encountering HMS Flirt names while adding into my Portsmouth Kingston Cemetery Community. On the night of 26/27 October 1916 the German Navy raided the Dover Barrage with two and a half flotillas of torpedo boats and destroyers. Flirt under the command of Lieutenant R. P. Kellett responded to gunfire from the drifter line. She found the drifter Waveney II on fire and sent a boat to assist. When unidentified ships approached she issued a challenge and was immediately fired upon by the Germans. Flirt was lost; the only survivors were those dispatched to aid Waveney II. There appear to be almost 60 names on the Roll of Honour from that incident, and from what I can see there are 15 already on Lives that have been Identified. I am also going to add in any other men from Flirt that may have died while a member of the crew of which there appear to be at least 4, and I am adding in the names of those who were survivors too. HMS Flirt has not been forgotten and most of her crew are commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial . As an aside, I encountered the names of more former crew from HMS Flirt who were accidentally drowned going aboard ship by the capsizing of the whaler at Eastbourne.
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Born 1893
Died 1916
Royal Navy S 4348 Stoker Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Navy 4348S Stoker Royal Naval Reserve - H.M.S. "Flirt."
More about Oliver Burdon -
Born 1880
Died 1916
Royal Navy 186621 Leading Seaman HMS Flirt
More about Henry John Chase -
Born 1877
Died 1916
Royal Navy 284276 Petty Officer Stoker HMS Flirt
More about James Carroll -
Born 1885
Royal Navy A 6899 Seaman Royal Naval Reserve HMS Flirt
More about Alexander Innes -
Born 1897
Died 1916
Royal Navy 9110/S Stoker Royal Naval Reserve - H.M.S. 'Flirt'
More about Richard James Doyle -
Born 1883
Died 1916
Royal Navy B3162 Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Navy 3162B Seaman Royal Naval Reserve: HMS Flirt
More about Hugh Mcintosh -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy S8260 Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Navy 8260S Stoker Royal Naval Reserve: HMS Flirt
More about Thomas Rutherford Pringle -
Born 1897
Died 1923
Royal Navy J22629 Able Seaman HMS Flirt
More about Reginald Owen Riggs -
Born 1882
Died 1916
Royal Navy K13668 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
More about Edward Moody -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Royal Navy M19847
Royal Navy M/19847 Engine Room Artificer 4th Class HMS Flirt
Royal Navy Acting E.R.A. 4th HMS Flirt
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More about Livingstone Murch -
Born 1894
Died 1916
Royal Navy SS113963 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
More about William Croft -
Born 1897
Died 1916
Royal Navy SS5985 Ordinary Seaman HMS Attentive II
Royal Navy SS5985 Able Seaman HMS Flirt
Royal Navy SS5985 Ordinary Seaman HMS Victory I
More about George Atherton -
Born 1889
Died 1916
Royal Navy K30751 Stoker 2nd class HMS Flirt
More about Charles Henry Fennell -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy J17581 Able Seaman HIS Flirt
More about Leslie Arthur Claridge -
Born 1894
Died 1916
Royal Navy K16515 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
More about John Albert Crooks -
Born 1897
Died 1916
Royal Navy K29879 Stoker 2nd Class HMS Flirt
More about Edward Middlemiss Lee -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy SS116626 Stoker 1st Class HMS Victory II
Royal Navy SS116626 Stoker 1st class HMS Flirt
More about William Samuel Clegg -
Born 1885
Died 1916
Royal Navy 211843 Yeoman of signals HMS Flirt
More about Thomas Arthur Chambers -
Born 1891
Died 1916
Royal Navy K9678 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
More about John Robert Cox -
Born 1899
Died 1916
Royal Navy J37607 Boy Telegraphist HMS Flirt
More about Charles Duckworth