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HMS Cyclops
HMS Cyclops was built as merchant ship Indrabarah by Laing and was launched 27th October 1905. She served during the Great War and was used as a a Submarine depot ship in the Mediterranean. During the Second World War she served as the depot ship for the Royal Navy's 7th Submarine Flotilla and was based in Rothesay. A number of Wrens worked on board, mostly performing administrative duties.
HMS Cyclops was scrapped in 1947 at Newport.
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Cyclops during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Anderson John Thomson. Tel.
- Brady Joseph John. CPO
- Clarke Eric. Stokr.
- Drury Maurice Leslie. Able Sea.
- Ellis John Raymond . Sub.Lt.
- Loveland Montague William James. CPO.
- Mitton Leonard Henry. Ldg. Signalman (d.11 Nov 1942)
- Pickett George William. L.Sig.
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Tel. John Thomson Anderson HMS Cyclops John Anderson served as a Telegraphist on HMS Cyclops during June, July, September and November 1943.
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Sub.Lt. John Raymond "Smiler" Ellis HMS Cyclops  My father was known as Ray Ellis, maybe nicknamed "Smiler". He was at Chatham by mid 1939, ie not conscripted but volunteered before the war. Then to Plymouth during the Blitz, then to Rothesay on the HMS Cyclops. He told me it was moored up all the time apart from one night a year, where "having lifted itself off its bed of empty gin bottles" it went to sea, and anchored, and came back next day. This allowed them to have the rum etc for another year.
He was a Sub-Lt all the way through and carried on his civilian skills (teaching physics and maths) by teaching personnel about navigation and anything else that was needed. My Aunt says he used to be in charge of the code books and carry them off the ship at night to our flat in Rothesay. He loved codes and years later, taught me the basics of code making, which I still love.
I was born early in 1945 in Rothesay. I was christened in the ship's bell. My dad was demobbed eventually, and we travelled down to his parents home in Somerset, with me in a carrycot made of white canvas, made by the sailmaker onboard, I can remember it, saved in our garage.
After the war he went into the RNVR, helped at the Cadet group in his school, and joined the Civil Defence when that was formed.
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Stokr. Eric Clarke HMS Thrasher Eric Clarke was my father. He had kept records of his RN Service, which show he joined the RN on 24th of February 1943. He spent his first few months in training at various shore establishments until 17th of September 1943 when he joined the supply ship HMS Cyclops. He was promoted to Stoker1 on 24th February 1944.
On 19th June 1944 he joined the submarine depot ship HMS Forth for service on T Class submarine Thrasher
On 14th of Oct 1944 he joined the submarine depot ship HMS Wolfe ( still serving on HMS Thrasher)
On 10th Mar 1945 Eric was promoted to A/L Stoker (T1) (M). 30th Aug 1945 Eric completed his submarine service and moved to shore base Dolphin at Gosport.
Eric completed his RN service on 30th Nov 1946.
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Able Sea. Maurice Leslie Drury HMS Cyclops In August 1944 my mother, Ivy, took my brother and I to spend a month at Rothsay while my father, Maurice Drury, was a member of the crew of HMS Cyclops, then moored in the Bay. I was only seven years old but do remember going aboard the ship for a religious service, and afterwards being shown (what I now think will have been 4") shells in lockers on deck. After that my brother and I were taken aboard a submarine moored alongside. We were not able to visit the torpedo compartment (where my father, a Torpedo man, presumably frequently worked) as the crew were sleeping there before setting off on their next patrol. I also remember seeing the Cyclops from the shore with varying numbers of submarines moored alongside.
According to his Certificate of Service, Maurice served on Cyclops from 8th September 1943 to 8th October 1945.
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L.Sig. George William Pickett HMS Cyclops Not a lot is known about George Pickett's sevice days. He was on HMS Renown and He said whilst on HMS Renown, they brought Winston Churchill from Nova Scotia to the United Kingdom. On George's 21st Birthday in 1944, his address was 101 Mess, HMS Cyclops. In February 1946, in St. Rodeaux, he joined the Atheling as crew and sailed to Australia.
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