daveuk6 Posted 21 November , 2005 Share Posted 21 November , 2005 Can any 1 help me with this ?? The photo is of HMS Riflemans Fooball team 1917 my Grandad G W Foreman is on the top left of the photo and that all i no about him so any info on the ship or him would be a great help all my thanks Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 21 November , 2005 Share Posted 21 November , 2005 HMS RIFLEMAN, H (Acorn ) Class Destroyer, 720 to 760 tons, Turbine 135000shp + 27knots, armed with 2 x 4 inch , 2 x 12 pounders, 2 x 21 inch torpedo tubes. Pendant No H82 ( 1914) H97 from January 1918. Built by Whites and launched 22/8/1910 , sold 9/5/1921. RIFLEMAN and her sister ships were oil burners. The whole class made up the 2nd Destroyer Force in the Grand Fleet 1914 to 1915: six were sent to the Med in 1915 and five more in 1916. All were in the Med by 1918. From the white uniforms in the photo RIFLEMAN must have been one of the eleven ships sent to the Med. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveuk6 Posted 21 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 21 November , 2005 Malcolm Thank you very much for your onfo Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted 21 November , 2005 Share Posted 21 November , 2005 In the med 1917 On 15 April 1917 the Cameronia was torpedoed by the German submarine U-33 enroute from Marseilles to Alexandria, Egypt while carrying 2650 troops and 150 nautical miles from Malta. The Cameronia sank in 40 minutes, resulting in 210 deaths. Some of the survivors were picked up by the escorting destroyer, HMS Rifleman. Regards Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 21 November , 2005 Share Posted 21 November , 2005 A pleasure, good luck hunting your Grandad. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveuk6 Posted 21 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 21 November , 2005 Charles Thank you very much Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kin47 Posted 21 November , 2005 Share Posted 21 November , 2005 Hello A side note on RIFLEMAN On 23 August 1914, she was in a collision in fog with destroyer COMET who was considerably damaged. don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveuk6 Posted 22 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 22 November , 2005 Thanks for the info Don Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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