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词条 HMS Paxton
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  1. Sinking

  2. References

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HMS Paxton was a First World War Royal Navy Q-Ship torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-46 on 20 May 1917 in the Atlantic Ocean 90 miles west of Great Skellig, Eire.[1] The ship was originally ordered as Lady Patricia for the British and Irish Steam Packet Company[2] but taken over on completion by the British Government as HMAV Lady Patricia.[1]

The ship was damaged by gunfire from the German submarine U-57 on 30 March 1917 in St George's Channel and six crew killed.[3][4] Shortly afterwards work started on converting her to an anti-submarine Q-ship, Q25, which was completed on 30 April 1917.[1] The ship was commissioned as HMS Paxton the following day and sunk less than three weeks later.

Sinking

At about 9:00 on 20 May 1917 the ship was heading west at about 8 knots when an unknown German submarine surfaced and shelled her with its deck gun, hitting the ship once. Paxton responded by firing back at the submarine with her stern 4 inch gun, thus revealing herself as a Q-Ship. The submarine dived to escape.[18]

Paxton continued on her westerly course, and the crew changed her disguise by painting the name of a Swedish ship on her sides.[18] At 19:15 on the same day U-46 torpedoed her,[2] disabling the engines.[18] Two men were killed, including the chief engineer,[18] but the ship remained afloat because she was loaded with lumber.[18] The submarine fired a second torpedo fifteen minutes later which broke the ship's back and it sank within about five minutes.[18] The surviving crew abandoned the ship on two boats and two rafts, but had not been able to send a distress radio message.[18] The submarine surfaced and took the captain, Commander George Hewett[5] and the second engineer,[18] Engineer Sub-Lieutenant James Wilfred Johnson[6] prisoner.

The boats and rafts stayed together overnight, but at 5 am one boat separated to make for Berehaven (now Castletownbere) for help.[18] The boat had no food or water onboard.[18] However it was spotted just after 9 pm, by an American destroyer, USS Wadsworth, which rescued the three officers and eight ratings on it but despite spending the following day searching the destroyer could not locate the other survivors.[7] On 26 May a further four crew were rescued from a raft by another ship,[1] and on 26[7] or 27 May[1] the second boat, containing the remaining survivors reached Killybegs.[7] Provisions and water had run out four days before the boat arrived, and two people had died en route.[7] In all 31 people were killed.[2][1]

Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant Annesley George Lennon Brown, RNVR was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in June 1919 for his gallantry and devotion to duty following the torpedoing.[8][9]

References

1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web | url = http://www.ataleofonecity.portsmouth.gov.uk/firstworldwar/richard-tallack/ | title =Richard Tallack |work = A Tale of one City | accessdate=24 May 2015}}
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?13672|work=wrecksite|title=HMAV Lady Patricia (Anchusa Q25 Paxton) (+1917)|accessdate=24 May 2015}}
3. ^{{cite Uboat.net|id=3470|name=Lady Patricia|type=1ship}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=Royal Navy Roll of Honour - World War 1, Part 2 - by Date and Ship/Unit| pages=337 | first=Don |last=Kindell | year=2009|isbn=1445205351|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1445205351}}
5. ^{{cite web | url =http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishQships.htm | title=British Special Service or Q-Ships| work=World War I at Sea|accessdate=25 May 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2617547 | title=Germany: Prisoners, including: Appeal for war loan sent to prisoners in Germany.... | work=UK National Archives | accessdate=25 May 2015 }}
7. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 {{cite book | title = The Queenstown Patrol, 1917: The Diary of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy | author=William N. Still, Jr.| publisher=Naval War College Press | year=1996 | url=https://www.ibiblio.org/anrs/docs/1001taussig_thequeenstownpatrol1917.pdf | accessdate=30 May 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishLGDecorationszzDSC.htm | title=Royal Navy Medals - Awards of the Distinguished Service Cross | work=Naval History .net | accessdate=25 May 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31398/supplement/7511/data.pdf | work=London Gazette |title = Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 June, 1919 | accessdate=25 May 2015}}
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