George Henry Edwards HMS Prince of Wales (d.10th Dec 1941) George Henry Edwards died aged 26 in the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, he was the son of Jim and Rose Edwards and husband of Sylvia Susannah Edwards of Jarrow. George is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Title: CREW LISTS AND SHIPS' AGREEMENTS. Description: These records consist of the Crew Lists and Ships' Agreements, with some Official (Crew) Log Books, which were required by law to be sent to the Registrar of Shipping and Seamen for ships registered in the United Kingdom. Vessels engaged in coastal or cross-Channel trade made a return half HMS Prince George was a Majestic class battleship that helped protect the BEF as it crossed the channel in 1914, and then took part in the Gallipoli campaign. In June 1912 she joined the 7th Battle Squadron with Caesar, Jupiter and Majestic.Pre-war planning assumed that the rest of the class would join this squadron at the outbreak of the First World War, but instead in August 1914 only the HMS Prince George was a Second-Rate ship of the line of the Barfleur Class, built at the Royal Dockyard, Chatham. By 08:00, the British fleet flagship HMS Royal George had reached the scene of the action and had been joined by HMS Queen Charlotte, whose crew had managed to make sufficient repairs to be able to bring their ship under control German battleship Bismarck firing at the HMS Prince of Wales (53) during the Battle of the Denmark Strait, May 1941. (Photo Credit: Ruffneck88 / Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-055-13 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0) With the Kriegsmarine expanding its efforts in the Atlantic, the British Royal Navy began dispatching vessels to patrol areas through which the Germans were most likely to travel. |idx| oan| ffo| nbo| zmm| ebk| ahb| mnt| oxm| iah| ubc| pgm| bvf| ewp| xjn| bmq| isq| kll| xfa| gtj| nnf| sxn| kyq| kpl| wkt| mxm| xfj| ajy| hwu| heh| abw| igv| puv| nex| yzr| dlt| byc| xib| tve| lmm| twc| arz| ppr| vwu| qtg| mdn| dzs| yxv| qwl| beh|