Isn’t it odd that Operation Paul, a plan so “cherished” by Churchill fails to get a mention in his memoirs? Sub-Lieutenant McLachlan, a survivor from Glorious, told the Board of Enquiry. Secret History HMS Glorious - YouTube The Admiralty turned a deaf-ear to anyone who asked questions. This explanation is not convincing. On 8 June 2019, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the Belvedere Gardens, Plymouth Hoe, dedicated to all crew members who lost their lives onboard HM Ships Glorious, Ardent and Acasta. [40] He was granted permission to proceed independently to Scapa Flow in the early hours of 8 June to hold a court-martial of his Commander (Air), J. No survivors from Glorious Ardent or Acasta were rescued by the Royal Navy, those lucky enough to survive three days in Carley floats were found by Norwegian fishing boats and a German seaplane. A clue to his thinking may lie in a letter Dudley Pound wrote, a few days before the outbreak of war, in September1939 and his thoughts, then, on how long HMS Glorious might survive; When we attack Italy itself….then I think there is a great deal to be said for making an attack by air on the Italian fleet at Taranto. James O'Neill - Stoker William Alfred Pascoe Dudley Pound said the report had already been overtaken by events. D’Oyly-Hughes’s family responded in a letter to the Sunday Times by saying he learnt to fly between the wars, and found the quality of some of his officers in Glorious to; “Have the feeling of endlessly kicking a ball which proved to be half full of argumentative soggy cotton wool”. Frederick Cooke Those who have criticised Healiss' book for being too personal have completely missed the point. Glorious in use as transport for RAF aircraft was no good to Wells, she could not fulfil the convoy protection role because she had only a fraction of her own aircraft onboard. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were by now closing in on the evacuating forces off Northern Norway, warnings from Bletchley Park and the Norwegians had gone awry. Despite the Admiralty naming Ark Royal in their signal as the designated carrier for Operation Paul Wells knew what he needed to protect the troop convoy and what he could make available. [25] Two 46-by-48-foot (14.0 m × 14.6 m) lifts were installed fore and aft in the flight deck. Some years later, the man sending those warnings, Bletchley cryptanalyst, Sir Harry Hinsley, remarked; “With the loss of Glorious there came a turning point in relations between Bletchley Park and the Admiralty”. Meanwhile, in London, Churchill was pushing his First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, to make Operation Paul happen. There does seem to be very little point in sticking to a story (shortage of fuel) that no one believes. There are 176 memorials from the 1,531 servicemen lost with HMS Glorious, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. “A short time ago these aircraft, working from Hatston (In the Orkney Islands) fitted with the extra tanks carried out a mine laying operation in The Stavanger area. Wells had two aircraft carriers at his disposal. Why was Glorious alone and so lightly protected? The light armament was justified by the Admiralty in order to save weight and that such ships should have to rely on their screening ships in order to protect them. He writes: There are several points about fleet distribution leading up to the loss of a certain ship which require examination. She was one of three battlecruisers belonging to the Courageous class which included Glorious, Courageous and Furious. Dined with Lady Wolverton. s. 23. [14] Two German Brummer-class light cruisers slipped through the gaps in the British patrols and destroyed a convoy bound for Norway during the morning of 17 October, but the British warships received no word of the engagement until that afternoon. 0 comments. They concluded the awards could not be made due to the lack of eye-witness accounts from senior British officers, all killed in the action. The War Illustrated, Volume 10, No. Conclusions, H.M.S. HMS Devonshire was within range of the battle and received a sighting report from Glorious. There’s another clue in Colville’s diary entry; Pound’s excessive caution. Found inside – Page 344In February 1940 , this ship rescued 13 survivors from H.M.S. Cape Howe who had been adrift for six days on a raft in the ... Further information on the subject of ' immersion foot ' was forthcoming after the loss of H.M.S. Glorious . Found insideHMS Glorious. From the thousand floating survivors, among the moans and occasional cries of anguish, there might from time to time be heard the sounds of weak and tuneless singing; but – in ones and twos and tens and scores – they died, ... No mention then of Glorious (apart from her own 812 Squadron) but the planning for Operation Paul would change again rapidly over the following 72 hours. HMS Hood 158 dead HMS Glorious 2 dead HMS Prince Of Wales 1 dead HMS Victorious 3 dead Total British dead = 393 dead German Losses Admiral Hipper sunk 1381 dead. 1,474 naval officers and ratings and 41 RAF personnel were killed, 43 survived. Glorious participated in the Coronation Fleet Review at Spithead on 20 May 1937 for King George VI before returning to the Mediterranean. That she should be frozen out by the Admiralty and unable to seek comfort from the one witness who could tell of her husband’s last moments seems unbearably cruel. Campania′s engine rooms flooded, and she settled by the stern and sank five hours later without loss of life. If all three of these ships had behaved in a cowardly manner, then one could understand the present attitude of the Admiralty, and this I am afraid is what the average person must think. Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, June 1940 One Glorious survivor and one Acasata survivor died shortly after arriving. The Parsons turbines were powered by eighteen Yarrow boilers. [28], Glorious recommissioned on 24 February 1930 for service with the Mediterranean Fleet, but was attached to the Home Fleet from March to June 1930. [35], She was recalled to the Home Fleet in April 1940 to provide air cover for British forces landing in Norway. HMS Glorious, one of Britain's largest and fastest aircraft carriers, was sunk along with her escorting destroyers HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta. During the First World War, Admiral Fisher was prevented from ordering an improved version of the preceding Renown-class battlecruisers by a wartime restriction that banned construction of ships larger than light cruisers. A serious study of the reasons why some warships have achieved bad reputations. He later claimed he discussed the incident with Dudley Pound, shortly before his death, and Pound agreed much of it was true. This signal would appear to refer to Operation Paul. Note: HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta were . [20] On 5 November 1918, Glorious was anchored off Burntisland in the Firth of Forth together with the seaplane tender Campania and the battleship Royal Oak when a sudden Force 10 squall caused Campania to drag her anchor and collide first with Royal Oak and then with Glorious. Died 08/06/1940. The daily warnings to the Admiralty came from a fledgling Bletchley Park. It is also believed[by whom?] Born to British parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, D’Oyly-Hughes grew up amongst the “Cowboys and Indians” of America’s Midwest. 46 Squadron RAF. (b) ARK ROYAL then to retire to westward at full speed. Son of William John and Isabella Anderson, Killyleagh. In response to point (b.) HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. share. Courageous and Glorious were not initially ordered to sea, but were sent to reinforce the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron patrolling the central part of the North Sea later that day. There were only 47 survivors. Every officer taking part in the action was of the same opinion. Glorious sank at 18:10,[41] approximately at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}68°38′N 03°50′E / 68.633°N 3.833°E / 68.633; 3.833Coordinates: 68°38′N 03°50′E / 68.633°N 3.833°E / 68.633; 3.833,[43] with 43 survivors. Scharnhorst eventually returned to Germany in June, but it would be the end of the year before she was back in action. On the 7th June 1940, the cruiser, HMS Devonshire, was ordered to embark the Norwegian party from Tromso and return to the UK immediately, at full speed and in radio silence. Gerard SpencerRoger HookeCyril Carter, Dedicated to perpetuate the proud memory of the men serving in HM Ships Glorious, Ardent & Acasta who lost their lives in the Norwegian Sea on 8th June 1940 and those who survived. Eyewitnesses say the Admiral was later seen slumped in a corner; chain smoking convinced he would be condemned for turning his back on Glorious. John Alexander Duffy The following is the list of men who survived: Ignatius Ashworth - Leading Seaman D’Oyly-Hughes had already removed Heath and I can’t think he was very high up on D’Oyly-Hughes or Wells’ list of priorities. D’Oyly-Hughes kept a loaded revolver on the bridge of the ship for “Any man who failed in his duty” and a pet Chihuahua and yellow Canary in his cabin. . Neither do I think D’Oyly-Hughes was that vindictive, unless he was suffering from some kind of mental health problem. Glorious had been sunk. HMS Audacious. [55], The most prominent memorial for the lost crew of HMS Glorious, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta is situated in Southsea Common, Portsmouth, overlooking the promenade and is accessible to the public at all times. The RAF aeroplanes could not operate from the carrier. The plan was to send old but heavily modified battleships into the Baltic to wreak havoc and sink ore carriers. I myself joined the Joint Planning staff just as it was beginning and believe me, it was Bedlam. This time the plan was simpler, Churchill named the sequel; Operation Paul (After Catherine’s eldest son, Paul I). [41], Glorious was hit again in the centre engine room at 17:20 and this caused her to lose speed and commence a slow circle to port. I say cover-up, because that is what it has happened since 8th June 1940. The Chief Torpedo Instructor in the ship said that they were getting a “lap ahead”. The loss was very grievous and even more vexing is that the enemy retired without injury or interception. BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Service remembers war dead The carrier force had already been reduced from three to two and would shortly be reduced again to one. . Found insideTwo survivors from HMS Glorious came back to the barracks. We talked tothese boys andthey toldus aboutlife at sea. So war became real to us. Then, two of my mates – Aubrey Priestley and Harry was wandering around and suddenly a sergeant ... Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George Glorious was zigzagging and steaming at 17 knots, the correct speed at which to keep her safe from U-boat attack, the only threat she thought likely at this point. Ship was working directly under VAA (Vice Admiral Air Lionel Wells) and received her orders from him. On 8 June 2010, 70 years after the loss of Glorious, Acasta and Ardent, a memorial plaque inscribed in English and Norwegian was unveiled near the Trondenes Historical Centre in Harstad, Norway, the two destroyers' last port of call. Briggs and Dundas had their action stations. The Captain of Scharnhorst said of the British destroyers. The sooner it is over the better”. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 37. (i)No (repetition No) aerodrome will be available in Norway, (ii) The radius of action when working from a Carrier of Swordfish with extra tanks has proved to be 250 miles, (iii) There is a great risk to carriers if they remain for several hours off Norwegian Coast. There were only 47 survivors. HMS Vega escapes at flank speed with survivors from HMS ... Destroyers Veteran and Forester were detached from the Commander in Chief on the 14th to call at the Faroes on the 16th and pick up these men taking them to Scapa Flow. HMS Glorious, Acasta and Ardent - Repeat - "The Sea Takes ... His notes of the 20th June 1940; “Why did she part company with Ark Royal? For the above, 18 mines would be required. The irony though is the suggestion of court martial came from Dudley Pound the very man, along with Churchill, who put the ships in harm’s way in the first place. Let a good plan be ready to be used in about three weeks. Faced with the thought of burning his beloved Hurricanes, Squadron Leader Kenneth “Bing” Cross felt they had nothing to lose but to try. Whilst in London to meet Churchill, D’Oyly-Hughes also tried, unsuccessfully, to replace the man in charge of flying in Glorious, Commander JB (John Benjamin) Heath. In answer to point (d.). I estimate Ark Royal must have been within aircraft striking distance when all this happened”. HMS Veteran (D72, later I72) was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer ordered from John Brown and Company, Clydebank, in January 1918, and laid down on 30th August. Robin Broadhurst’s biography of Pound is titled “Churchill’s Anchor”. Gross negligence by the ship’s Captain? It is true that the survivors who were rescued in the manner described by the hon. Kenneth Macksey, in his book “ Invasion” went further and sighted the torpedo hit and damage to Scharnhorst as putting an end to German plans for Operation Sealion;  the invasion of Great Britain, planned for July 1940. At this early point of the war, it is fair to say all was not well at the Admiralty. The modifications proved beyond the already overstretched British shipyards, and in January 1940, Catherine was dropped. Aircraft, launched from carriers sitting off the north Norwegian coast, would fly across the Scandinavian peninsula to lay mines, blocking ore exports from the neutral Swedish Baltic port of Lulea. A week later on 23rd May 1940 Churchill was pushing again: We should take every advantage of our position in Northern Norway to mine the approaches to Lulea to the maximum possible extent. HMS Ardent and Acasta (As seen from the German Battlecruisers) lay smoke to screen Glorious from their gunfire (Courtesy of GLARAC). An hour and half later the battle was over, Glorious, Ardent and Acasta had all been sunk, 600 men were dead and 900 men were adrift in life rafts, only 41 would survive. The order was also sent to the Vice Admiral Air (VAA) Lionel Wells. Robert A.A Wootton - Royal Marine, ****************************************************************, Kenneth Cross Rupert HillPatrick JamiesonIan MacLachlan The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. JB Heath’s reluctance must have left D’Oyly-Hughes to conclude Heath would be incapable of carrying out orders for Operation Paul. The Tragedy of H.M.S. Glorious - The War Illustrated ... What is interesting about his letter is he can’t even bring himself to name Glorious and instead refers to a “certain ship”. The damage to Scharnhorst was substantial. The remaining twelve mounts were distributed along the sides of the ship. D’Oyly-Hughes certainly couldn’t afford a repeat of Heath’s doubts when it came to Operation Paul. On the 14th May 1940, four days into his premiership, Churchill gave instructions for plans to be prepared to enable Operation Paul to be put into action within three weeks (Early June). With the help of strategist and minelaying expert, Admiral Reggie Drax, he came up with Operation Catherine, named after Catherine the Great of Russia. Did it name HMS Glorious? At 3.00am on 8 June 1940 Glorious, with the two destroyers, was detached from the rest of the Allied fleet so as to make for Scapa Flow at all speed, while the main body of the fleet, headed by the carrier HMS Ark Royal (Vice Admiral Lionel Wells), proceeded to escort the slower convoy back to Britain. HMS Glorious soon after its remodeling as an aircraft carrier Late in the afternoon of June 8th, 1940, the Royal Navy suffered one of its most devastating defeats of the Second World War. The window of opportunity for Operation Paul was tiny. They added it was Wells who ordered the ship to return to the UK (and not D’Oyly-Hughes who took his ship off in some high-handed way, putting it in danger). In a brutal gun battle that lasted . The demonisation of D’Oyly-Hughes has always been convenient because it drew attention away from anyone discovering what I believe is the real reason the ships were lost:  Churchill’s Operation Paul. Posted on: 11 May 2005 by sgt_george. At Gosforth a wooden plaque commemorates 39 year old Lt Commander Austin Noel Rees Keene, R.N. Military History: HMS Glorious - The controversy around ... The test run for Operation Paul was appropriately named Operation Bottle and is the next piece of the HMS Glorious/Operation Paul jigsaw. The timing and the wording the next signal from London is telling, it comes at quarter to one in the morning. He added it is normal procedure to give prior notice of the intention to mine an area. The whys and wherefores surrounding the loss of the ships have perplexed us all for nearly eighty years. This was June 1940, Britain’s darkest hour; the month we evacuated Dunkirk & Norway, Italy declared war and France capitulated. Point (c.) is misleading in that the only time ships had come under attack out at sea during the whole Norwegian campaign had been by air. [13] She was placed in reserve at Rosyth, Scotland, on 1 February 1919 and served as a turret drill ship, being also flagship of the rear-admiral commanding the Devonport Reserve between 1921 and 1922. The evacuation brought with it the rescue of Norway’s King Haakon VII, his family and cabinet. The middle seat of each aeroplane, normally housing the navigator/observer was now occupied by a large drum of aviation fuel to give the aircraft the range they needed, with the navigator bumped into the third, rear gunner’s seat. The Glorious sank at 6:10, with only 43 survivors. 39 survivors "So I began making my own investigations. (77). [8] During her sea trials the following month, her sister Courageous sustained structural damage while running at full speed in a rough head sea and had the damaged areas stiffened shortly afterwards to prevent a recurrence. 11 Jun 1940 Norwegian trawler Borgund rescued 37 survivors of sunken HMS Glorious and 2 survivors of sunken HMS Acasta. D’Oyly-Hughes, it appears, was acting no differently to the captain of Ark Royal, had he been in the same situation. Had the warnings from Bletchley Park and or the Norwegian coastal watchers been passed on to Glorious and other allied ships in the area, they may have been better prepared for a surface threat. No aircraft up and ship intact at 1640. However, given the country was at war Bower had pushed it as far as he could in a public forum. Was Roskill right? This negated the mount's intended high rate of fire against torpedo boats and other smaller craft. Many years later, Admiral Sir William Davis would write: “D’Oyly Hughes was known to be a very difficult headstrong chap. The PM was in an impatient frame of mind. What has the Royal Navy and successive governments been hiding for so long? Before the action began, the only shell at the guns was for anti-aircraft attack. During the Norwegian campaign . Age 18. The entire battle was over in less than two hours. 1844. In the final days of his life, Captain Basil Hall begins rewriting the journal of his acclaimed voyage to the coasts of the New World. Dick Leggott, a fighter pilot in Glorious and not, by his own admission, a huge fan of JB Heath, put the court martial signal down to D’Oyly-Hughes’ dark sense of humour. The latter said in order to wage war Democracies had to convert themselves to Dictatorships. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. Glorious was paid off after the war, but was rebuilt as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s. The loss of HMS Glorious looms large and personal in my life. HMS Glorious adalah kapal kedua dari tiga kruiser tempur kelas-Courageous yang dibina untuk Royal Navy semasa Perang Dunia Pertama.Direka untuk menyokong Projek Baltik yang diperjuangkan oleh First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, namun ia mempunyai senjata ringan dan sedikit perisai. The minutes record: First Lord of the Admiralty ( A.V. Vernon Robert McBride Alexander who succeeded Churchill in the role) said it was proposed to carry out the Operation Paul in the near future. The engrossing but tragic history of the Royal Navy's worst loss of World War Two. In 1924 Glorious began the conversion process to an aircraft carrier.The conversion was completed in 1930. Why has the bravery of the two destroyers and their David and Goliath battle to protect Glorious never been properly recognised. Operation Paul would mirror these exact requirements. His previous report relating to operations from April 1940 to the beginning of May 1940 runs to 100 pages and he hadn’t lost, 1,519 men, a carrier and two destroyers then. Owing to the flying-off deck having a ramp at the forward end, there was some doubt . The 0043 signal to Admiral Wells in Ark Royal gave him a real dilemma. 73.Jump up ↑ Stuart Robertson, Stephen Dent: The War at Sea in Photographs. On the 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts, HMS Ardent and Acasta were sunk, returning home from Norway, by the German battlecruisers; Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Richard Thomas Leggott - Petty Officer In these circumstances it was felt impossible to delay further the issue of an announcement, which should be on the lines that, in the absence of any further reports, it must be presumed that H.M.S. David Irving in his book “Churchill’s War  - The struggle for Power” agrees; Churchill’s battery of weapons (Wrote Admiral John Godfrey, director of naval Intelligence) included persuasion, real or simulated anger, mockery, vituperation, tantrums, ridicule, derision, abuse and tears. [23] Her 15-inch turrets were placed into storage and later reused during the Second World War for Vanguard, the world's last battleship to be built. British stoker served aboard HMS Glorious in GB coastal waters, Mediterranean and Norway, 1936-1940 including sinking in Norwegian Sea, 8/6/1940 Content description REEL 1 Background in Manchester and Isle of Man, 1915-1936: family; education; employment. German naval reports emerged after the war. It wasn’t long before Churchill and Drax were at it again. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, they were relatively lightly armed and armoured. There was a lookout, admittedly, had the lookout been at the highest point of the mast, Glorious might have sighted the enemy sooner. [5], Glorious' keel was laid down on 1 May 1915 by Harland and Wolff at their Belfast shipyard. You wonder what possible business it was of the gallantry and awards committee to be worrying about the re-opening of naval enquiries, but it then it becomes blindingly obvious when you realise the new secretary of the awards committee in 1946 was none other than; Sir Edward Bridges – Churchill’s very own Cabinet Secretary throughout the war and then, of course, the plot thickens. It is heart-breaking that Mrs Glasfurd should have felt people might think her husband and his ship’s company to be cowards when they put up such a brave fight against such overwhelming odds. [5] These mounts had the three breeches too close together and the 23 loaders tended to interfere with one another. (b). I readily admit the jigsaw may be missing a few pieces but nonetheless a discernible picture has emerged. HMS Glorious was sunk with her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and Ardent on 8 June 1940.As the three ships sank so quickly, there were very few survivors and over 1,500 men died. The Board of Enquiry into the loss of HMS Glorious, Ardent and Acasta signed off its findings just eighteen days later on 26th June 1940 but oddly was confined to accounts from survivors only and not the external circumstances surrounding the loss of the ships. [5], Glorious carried four BL 15-inch (381 mm) Mark I guns in two twin-gun turrets, one each fore ('A') and aft ('Y'). One month later, 18 would become a highly significant number for Churchill, First Sea Lord Dudley Pound and Vice Admiral Lionel Wells. - October 31st 1939. The Germans named theirs; Operation Juno. The committee agreed on 24th May regarding Operation Paul: Aircraft being withdrawn, if necessary, from among those now operating from shore bases in south east England. John Winton, unaware of Operation Paul, assumed this was being done to be ready for crew leave when the ship reached the UK. One hit the Battleship under the rear turret and badly damaged her. [36], Glorious returned on 18 May with six Supermarine Walrus amphibious flying boats of 701 Squadron and 18 Hawker Hurricanes of No. Glorious in the Med before the war. Glorious. When he took command of Glorious, his wife wrote a letter to one of his senior officers saying: “Please be forbearing with Guy won’t you, for sometimes he says and does things which seem quite mad”. The more likely explanation is the aircrews had begun preparing the aircraft to carry the mines and long range fuel tanks for Operation Paul, itself a 24-36 hour job per aircraft. In the intervening years D’Oyly-Hughes has become a much more controversial figure than he was on the 8th June 1940. Glorious began her conversion at Rosyth in 1924, and was towed to Devonport where she was completed on 24 February 1930. The three battlecruisers were modified in compliance with the Washington Naval . Dr. Derrys fremstilling af det to-mÃ¥neders felttog i Norge i 1940 er den første officielle fremstilling, der fremkom efter krigsafslutningen. After some discussion in Devonshire between the Admiral, King and Captain, she chose the latter. This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. There was a lack of a proper look out on board and of precautions generally against a possible surface attack. At the outset of WWII, the prevalent thinking by most naval strategists was rooted in the 19th century theories of Alfred Mahan, an American naval strategist who preached that a decisive . In 1939, 82% of Germany’s Iron ore imports, for steel making, came from Sweden. HMS Vega escapes at flank speed with survivors from HMS glorious. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. Both Royal Oak and Glorious suffered only minor damage, but Campania was holed by her collision with Royal Oak. The distance from Hatston and back again was 510 miles.”. [15], Throughout 1917 the Admiralty was becoming more concerned about German efforts to sweep paths through the British-laid minefields intended to restrict the actions of the High Seas Fleet and German submarines. The War Cabinet met again on the 10th June1940 by which time news of Glorious was not good; Churchill spoke of a "grievous loss" and "consideration was given to the question whether a certain operation (Paul) should be carried out". It really was an example of how not to run a shop. Found insideJune , 1940 Sinking of H.M.S. " Glorious " and two accompanying destroyers . Autumn , 1940 In dock in Kiel ... “ Rawalpindi ” No details of the action with H.M.S. “ Rawalpindi ” were obtained from the “ Scharnhorst ” survivors . He feared, however, that the report was almost certainly true. Understandably, far more pressing in the minds of those making the decisions, was the task of protecting Britain from invasion and cutting off Germany’s iron ore supply. Plans to drop pamphlets warning neutral Swedes an attack was imminent had been cancelled. Answer (1 of 8): No, and for one reason, her skipper, Captain Guy D'Oyly-Hughes. 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