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 1889
Died 1916
Royal Navy Lieutenant
Royal Navy Lieutenant HMS Flirt
Born 1884
Died 1916
Royal Navy L9018 Officers Steward 2nd class. HMS Flirt
Born 1871
Died 1916
Royal Navy 170070
Royal Navy 170070 Chief Stoker H.M.S. "Flirt."
Royal Navy 170070 Stoker 2nd Class
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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
Born 1889
Died 1916
Royal Navy K30751 Stoker 2nd class HMS Flirt
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy J17581 Able Seaman HIS Flirt
Born 1893
Died 1916
Royal Navy S 4348 Stoker Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Navy 4348S Stoker Royal Naval Reserve - H.M.S. "Flirt."
Born 1894
Died 1916
Royal Navy K16515 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy J18803 Able Seaman HMS Flirt
Born 1877
Died 1916
Royal Navy 185558(PO) Able Seaman HMS Flirt
Born 1885
Royal Navy A 6899 Seaman Royal Naval Reserve HMS Flirt
Born 1892
Died 1916
Royal Navy M103 Engine Room Artificer 3rd class HMS Flirt
Born 1880
Died 1916
Royal Navy 186621 Leading Seaman HMS Flirt
Born 1893
Died 1916
Royal Navy M1128 Engine Room Artificer 4th class HMS Flirt
Born 1872
Died 1916
Royal Navy 163666 Petty Officer Stoker HMS Flirt
Born 1888
Died 1916
Royal Navy K3757 Stoker 1st Class HMS Flirt
Born 1887
Died 1916
Royal Navy 222824 Leading Signalman HMS Flirt
Born 1895
Died 1916
Royal Navy M16950 Cooks Mate 2nd class HMS Flirt