Saturday, 11 November 2017

Still On Patrol



As today is Remembrance Day here in the UK I thought I would show this memorial to the submariners who were lost during World War Two   
The Dundee International Submarine Memorial is sited between Victoria and Camperdown docks in Dundee Harbour. I came across it while walking around the docks. The Submarines listed as still on Patrol were stationed at Dundee and lists the Six British, Dutch, Norwegian and Russian submarines were lost.

The memorial above is to a commando unit who were killed during Operation Musketoon 
HMS Thames lost after attacking the Battle Cruiser Gneisenau all 62 personnel we lost, O22 lost while on patrol off Norway, all crew were lost.

Uredd sunk by a German mine all crew were lost, the wreck was found in 1985 and is now a war grave. B-1 sunk in error by the RAF off the coast of Norway while being shipped to Russia all crew lost
HMS Oxley sunk in error by HMS Triton all crew lost, O 13 lost in a German Minefield while on patrol off Norway all crew lost
The outline of all the Submarines that we lost 

The opening inscription 

Two of the memorials with one of the warehouses in the background

 The memorial from the dockside

And a last view of the Submarine Memorial 
We Will Remember Them


5 comments:

♥ Łucja-Maria ♥ said...

Hello Bill!
I'm always looking forward to your relationships and great pictures.
Thank you very much that I can get to know very interesting places and always beautiful architecture.
Greetings from Poland.
Lucja

Tom said...

...a wonderful remembrance.

Linda said...

It's sad to think of these lives cut short.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Oh my gosh Bill, all those lives lost.. it is so incredibly sad to think about it. Even more sad to think the fighting goes on today and for always probably!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for sharing. My grandfather died on one of those submarines. I am hoping to carry out my own remembrance there soon.