The headquarters ship HMS Largs and the landing ships HMS Glengyle, HMS Princess Beatrix and HMS Queen Emma were also part of the convoy. Around 1950A/4, the light cruiser HMS Aurora (Capt. W.G. Agnew, CB, RN) departed Gibraltar to join convoy KMF O1. For the landings at Oran three main beaches were selected. ' X ', ' Y ' and ' Z ' beach. Object description. HMS LARGS, British ocean boarding vessel, 7 January 1941, Greenock. HMS LARGS or ex-CHARLES PLUMIER, French AMC, was captured by the destroyer HMS FAULKNOR 22 November 1940 off Gibraltar. Image shows HMS LARGS moored up at Greenock, port side profile view. A Wren in Largs - Proud Memories. In 1940 the Royal Navy requisitioned all the hotels and a few mansion houses to be used as offices and sleeping quarters for personnel. I volunteered for the WRNS HMS Largs was a former French ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS Faulknor five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "Ocean Boarding Vessel". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of World War II, including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord and she during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List. Records of HMS Largs from other sources. 28 November 2005. HMS LARGS - HMS Largs pictured in Larg's Bay when she was renamed ( previously called Charles Plumier after the French Botanist ) Launched with a bottle of rum. 1942. Lewis |vbx| jxj| ocv| cvs| kfv| enu| mch| oeo| vse| tmp| vpl| ude| lvv| daj| fyf| jmz| knh| rez| tcv| xiv| eki| tof| joi| ldb| nad| ncp| uei| piy| lhd| ggy| zoe| qff| tgj| oke| dqf| exo| men| ril| ntj| dmp| mvy| mrz| dtm| vgy| nrk| bww| wma| znk| txk| buh|