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Hugh Martyr

ww2dbaseEver since his school days in the United Kingdom, Hugh Martyr had been interested in history, particularly naval history. His interest in history later expanded to cover the American Civil War and the German V-weapons campaign against London. He is also an re-enactor and organizer of major re-enactment events, including the 200th anniversary of Waterloo event where over 8,000 were on the field. He joined the WW2DB team in 2018.

Latest Contributions

Person: Alexander Marinesko20 Sep 2023 
Document: Otto Schniewind Report on Operation Sea Lion11 Nov 2020 
Document: German OKW Directive on Operation Sea Lion4 Nov 2020 
Facility: Marlag und Milag Nord14 Oct 2020 
Document: Minutes of Meeting Between Adolf Hitler and Erich Raeder23 Sep 2020 
Document: German OKW Directive on War against United Kingdom9 Sep 2020 
Document: Minutes of Meeting Between Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, and Wilhelm Keitel19 Aug 2020 
Document: Message from Erich Raeder to Adolf Hitler5 Aug 2020 
Document: Message from Adolf Hitler to Erich Raeder10 Jun 2020 
Document: Minutes of Meeting Between Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, and Wilhelm Keitel5 Jun 2020 
Other: The HASAG Company13 May 2020 
Facility: HASAG Leipzig29 Apr 2020 
Ship: Kuala19 Feb 2020 
Ship: Cachalot (Grampus-class)2 Oct 2019 
Ship: Kasuga9 Aug 2019 
Event: Exercise Tiger8 May 2019 
Event: Operation Colossus8 Mar 2019 
Event: Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil25 Feb 2019 
Event: V-Weapons Campaign22 Feb 2019 
Other: Die Torpedokrise28 Jan 2019 
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Timeline Contributions

Hugh Martyr has also contributed 881 entries in the WW2 Timeline. A small sample of his timeline contributions is shown below.

» 5 Feb 1943: HMS Stronsay (T 178) under command of T/Lt. Arthur Fredrick Boumphrey, RNVR stuck a mine and sank in the western Mediterranean Sea off Philippeville, north-eastern Algeria. The trawler was on minesweeping patrol at the time. The mines had been laid by the German 3. S-boote Flottille. It had been thought that the trawler had been torpedoed by the Italian submarine Avorio, which had been operating in the area, but subsequent investigation shows that she arrived at the spot 24 hours after Stronsay was lost. Arthur Boumphrey survived and went on the command the MS trawler HMS Benbecula (T 379) until the end of the war.

» 29 Jul 1940: The 1,262-ton British merchant steamer Moidart hit a mine and sank whilst on passage from Greenhithe near London for Newcastle in northern England, United Kingdom, carrying a cargo of cement.

» 21 Jun 1940: The 4,281-ton French merchant steamer Mecanicien Principal Carvin was bombed and sunk by German aircraft at Verdon, France on the river Gironde.

» 8 Apr 1945: German submarine U-1001 (Kapitänleutnant Ernst-Ulrich Blaudow) was sunk in the Atlantic south-west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Fitzroy (K 553) and HMS Byron (k 508). All 46 crew were lost.

» 18 Jul 1945: Submarine chaser Harushima and auxiliary patrol vessels Pa No. 37, Pa No. 110, and Pa. No 122 were sunk by US Navy aircraft in the Yokosuka, Japan area.

» 15 Aug 1940: The 2,640-ton Greek cruiser-minelayer Elli was torpedoed by the Italian Squallo-slass submarine Delfino during a religious festival Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos while at anchor at Tinos Island, Greece at 0825 hours; 9 were killed, 24 were wounded. Delfino also fired a torpedo at anchored passenger ships Elsi and Esperos, but those torpedoes missed, damaging the wharf instead.





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