Sam Owen's WWII Photo Album
HMS Larne
My father, Samuel Owen, served in the (British) Royal Navy as a Petty Officer aboard the minesweeper HMS Larne, in the Mediterranean. He and his shipmates aided allied landings on the south coast of France during Operation Dragoon in August 1944; and in October 1944 his ship was so badly damaged by a mine off the coast of Greece during Operation Edgehill that it was out of action for the remainder of the War.
Samuel Owen
Petty Officer
Royal Navy
| HMS Larne (ii) (J 274) Minesweeper of the Algerine class | |
| Navy | Royal Navy |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Class | Algerine |
| Pennant | J 274 |
| Built by | Lobnitz & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) |
| Laid down | 25 Jan, 1943 |
| Launched | 2 Sep, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 22 Nov, 1943 |
| History | Allocated to 7th Minesweeper Flotilla. 31 July 1944, sailed for Mediterranean. Allied landings south coast of France 13 August 1944 (Operation Dragoon). On 15 October 1944, HMS Larne, Commander Humphrey Leoline Jenkins, was involved in sweeps off Cape Kalouri as part of Operation Edgehill when she hit a mine which caused a tremendous explosion next to her boiler room and No. 1 fuel tank and two of her engine room crew were killed. The leading sweeper, HMS Clinton, also caught a mine under her bow and stopped, down by the head, with vented steam feathering from her funnel steam pipes. HMS Larne was towed into Poros Bay, East Coast of Greece, and was eventually patched up, as was Clinton. (Comdr. Jenkins transferred to HMS Sylvia and the next day to HMS Welfare which he commanded until 19th March 1946.) HMS Larne was out of action for the rest of WWII. Sold to Italy in 1946, renamed Eritrea. Became orphanage ship 1951, renamed Alabarda. Broken up 1981. |
Photo Album
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All photos Copyright © 2010 Scott Owen
Reproduction and/or use without written permission prohibited.
I have name/place information for many of the pictures - email me if interested.
Prime Minister Churchill is abord the destroyer in picture #20.
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