Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Tenedos" Destroyer. Sunk WW11. Fine! 1935

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Seller: 24jcab ✉️ (9,127) 100%, Location: London, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 166629564641 Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Tenedos" Destroyer. Sunk WW11. Fine! 1935.     Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Tenedos" Destroyer. Sunk by Japanese bombers in WW11. Fine condition! 1935

                                                        

                                                This is a stamped, identifiable, original print stamped     A.W. Bell   for the discerning Collector.  

                                                                                       The watermark "24JCAB" does not form  part of the image.

                                     

This fine photograph is from a Superb World Class Naval Collection of Postcards and Photographs that recently came on the market. The original Owner/Collector spent decades assembling this collection and he was intimately involved in this area of expertise in the UK. Many of these images are rare or never been on the market for decades!

Highly knowledgeable, meticulous and clearly attached to his work he could even identify the time and place where these images were taken!

Even if there are multiple photographs of individual ships each is different whether taken from the bow, stern, starboard or port side!  A Truly remarkable collection!

Description

HMS "Tenedos"   ( Pennant number  initially  FA4  and later  H04 ) was an  Admiralty 'S' class destroyer . Laid down on 6 December 1917, she was constructed by  Hawthorn Leslie  of  Tyne , and was completed in 1918. She was commissioned in 1919 and served throughout the  interwar period .

WW11 -  In August 1939,  Tenedos , along with sister ships  Scout ,  Thanet  and  Thracian , formed a local defence flotilla at  Hong Kong . On 24 August 1939  Tenedos  and  Scout  left Hong Kong for Singapore.  When the two destroyers arrived at Singapore on 28 August, they were quickly converted to minelayers,  which involved removal of one 4 inch gun and the torpedo tubes to accommodate 40 mines.  The two destroyers laid a defensive minefield of 544 mines off Singapore between 4 and 8 September 1939, after which  Scout  was returned to normal destroyer configuration, while  Tenedos  continued on minelaying duties, with two more minefields being laid off Singapore by October 1939. Two merchant ships,  Høegh Transporter  and  Sirdhana , were sunk by these minefields in October–November 1939.     Tenedos  then had her normal destroyer armament refitted.    On 23 March 1940, the Royal Navy formed Malaya Force, with the intention of preventing German merchant ships from leaving harbours in the  Dutch East Indies .  Tenedos , along with  Stronghold  was assigned to patrol off  Sabang , where five German ships were trapped. The German merchant ships were seized by the Dutch following the  German invasion of the Netherlands  in May 1940.

In April 1942, the Japanese launched a  raid into the Indian Ocean  by its fast carrier forces. A  RCAF   Catalina  flying boat spotted the Japanese fleet 350 miles south-east of Ceylon on 4 April and radioed a sighting report before being shot down. Thus warned, all shipping in Colombo and  Trincomalee  harbours was ordered to leave port and disperse to avoid the impending Japanese attack.   Tenedos , however, was under repair in Colombo harbour and unable to leave, and was sunk with the loss of 33 officers and men by Japanese bombers when they attacked on 5 April.  The wreck was removed in February 1944 by HM salvage vessel  Salviking .

Back:         HMS Tenedos c 1935. 

Condition:   Fine image. Postcard sized. Good medium Stock.   See high resolution scans for details.  

Shipping:     Each card is shipped in a hard backed envelope and in its own plastic sleeve. Cards will be doubled up if more than one is purchased.

ALL photographs that we sell are ORIGINALS . We have scanned directly from the original photograph and the image may sometimes be less vibrant than the postcard itself.

                                      As a collector I hope you enjoy this purchase as much as I enjoy those that I collect!

  • Modified Item: No
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Framing: Unframed
  • Singles/ Sets: Single
  • Date of creation: 1930s
  • Publisher/Photographer: A.W. Bell
  • Feature: Starboard View
  • Subject: Royal Navy
  • Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1940
  • Original/ Reprint: Original Print
  • Type: Photograph

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