Naval Ships

[bailey216]

Hi

I have my Grandads Service record and have been looking at the ships, I'm just wondering if any knows why there is a 2nd name in brackets after the first.

Pembroke IV (versatile)
Feviet (versatile)
Tyne (???)

Does anyone have any knowledge of these ships.

Thanks

Emma

[peter nicholl]

Hi Emma Pembroke IV is a "Stone Frigate", a shore based Accounting Base, located at Chatham. Tyne was a Storeship/Depot Ship, but accounting was through Pembroke. Versatile was a V/W Class Destroyer built in 1917. Could you recheck the spelling for Feviet? Could it be Fervant? Fervant was another Destroyer. I am assuming WW1, so actual dates would help for more detail.
Peter

[bailey216]

Hi, its WW2, dates are as follows

Pembroke IV (versatile) 1 Dec 1944-30 May 45
Feviet (versatile) 6May 44-12 Sep 44
Tyne (???) 10 march 46-31 july 46

will send a picture of the record to see if you have any better luck deciphering Feviet.

Thanks for your help.

[timbo58]

I must admit to being flummoxed when searching 'Janes fighting ships 1943-4' which is in the FWR library and has every 'armed' ship of pretty much every size of every navy until I remembered that the RN uses 'HMS' for shore establishments too!

HMS Pembroke IV - accounting base at Chatham between 1919 and 1920, and the Nore between 1939 and 1961.
Feviet -no trace of this.
HMS Tyne -a base depot ship in the Far East in 1946.

[Peter Goodey]

Feviet

HMS Fervent (Ramsgate) would not have been a million miles from HMS Pembroke IV (Chatham)

Does the record say "Versatile" or "versatile"? There's a rather important distinction.

[bailey216]

[bailey216]

if anyone can decipher any of the other ones on there i would be grateful!

[Pam Downes]

Ganges
Pembroke
Ferret
Pembroke
Golden Hind
Tyne
Tamar
Rams Head (though it sounds more like the local pub than a ship )
Pembroke

Pam

[elsinore]

From Wiki:

HMS Ferret was a shore establishment, and was the Royal Navy's shore base at Derry, Northern Ireland, between 1940 and 1947.

Peter

[bailey216]

can i ask then if these are all shore based then he was not part of the D Day landings??