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From: "Bernard de Neumann" <>
Subject: RE: [Mar] Re: HMS FAROUK
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:47:18 +0100
In-Reply-To: <00cb01c59a62$79f662f0$e2bd2252@DavidAsprey>


Further to David's interesting posting, I have that Lockington was Temp
Lt.Cdr., RNR, but also that he had an OBE, and that his DSC was posted to
his next-of-=kin.

Bernard de Neumann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Asprey [mailto:]
> Sent: 06 August 2005 09:40
> To:
> Subject: [Mar] Re: HMS FAROUK
>
> Good morning Roger
>
> TNA/PRO file ADM 1/12282 is an interesting story. As noted, it is
> concerned
> with awards to personnel; it does not list the whole crew nor indeed the
> whole casualties. But it does contain her commander's detailed narrative
> of
> her loss by submarine gunfire.
>
> HMS FAROUK was described as a two-masted "Q-caique" of 96grt. She was
> converted in Alexandria and armed with at least two guns, hidden in a
> false
> deckhouse and intended to lure submarines on the surface. The project was
> the personal idea of her commander, Arthur Lockington who had had Q-ship
> experience in WW1 - "although 53 years of age he put the heart of a young
> man into the enterprise.
>
> On 12 June 1942 she sailed from Beirut after slipway repairs towards
> Iskenderun. Despite a decoy run south, at 1110hrs 13 June she was fired
> on
> by a waiting U-boat near Ramkin Island, Chekka Bay. The submarine
> continued
> firing from extensive range (initially 3000 yards or more) on FAROUK and
> on
> "panic boats" sent off. FAROUK had no opportunity to return fire before
> she
> was eventually sunk. It seems that one of her two boats was sunk with
> loss
> of crew (presumably including AB Dainty).
>
> Awards were made:
>
> DSC - Temp Lieut Arthur Esme Lockington RNR
> DSM - Ord Seaman E Moss C/JX277311 (from Newfoundland)
> DSM - Ord Seaman A Pardy (from Newfoundland)
> Dispatches Posthumous - Acting Petty Officer Arthur E Stubbings**
> D/JX138082
> Dispatches Posthumous - Engine Room Artificer 3 Joseph S Hall C/MX52186
> Dispatches - Sub-Lieut Martyn Jermyn Landon RNR
> Dispatches - AB A "Tom" Young
>
> ** cannot find him on CWGS website
>
>
> David Asprey
>
>
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