Newspaper Cutting: The Thetis disaster

Scope and Content

NEWSPAPER CUTTING: Article entitled Disaster in Liverpool Bay 40 years on.

Our ordeal dragging bodies from the Thetis' by ex Detective Superintendent John Hughes talking to Iowerth Roberts.

Article taken from from the Daily Post.

Administrative / Biographical History

Thetis was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England and launched on 29 June 1938. Thetis left Birkenhead for Liverpool Bay to conduct her final diving trials, accompanied by the tug Grebe Cock. As well as her normal complement of 59 men she was carrying technical observers from Cammell Laird and other naval personnel, a total of 103 men. She sank with the loss of 99 lives. She was salvaged, repaired and recommissioned as HMS Thunderbolt serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres until she was lost with all hands on 14 March 1943. This makes Thetis one of the few military vessels that have been lost twice with their crews in their service history.

Arrangement

By deposit

Access Information

Dim cyfyngiadau/ No Restrictions

Acquisition Information

Adnau preifat / Private deposit.

Note

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Other Finding Aids

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Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Cyflwr da /Good condition

Archivist's Note

Compiled by Amanda Sweet Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Thetis_(N25)

Appraisal Information

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Accruals

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