Emergency War Programme
Admiralty design SCOTT-Class Flotilla Leader ordered from
Hawthorn Leslie at Newcastle in April 1917
under the 1916-17 Programme as a repeat of: the 1916 Cammell Laird order. The ship was laid down on 4th
October, 1918 and launched on 10th June 1917 as the first RN ship to carry this
name. She was completed at 14th
December 1918. In 1921 she was Leader of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic
Fleet and later transferred with
the Flotilla to the Mediterranean Fleet; After the Flotilla was relieved in
1931 the ship was placed in Reserve. (See General Information). There is no record
of an adoption by a civil community in UK following a WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign
during 1941-42.
B a t t l e H o n o u r s
ATLANTIC 1939-40 - DUNKIRK
1940 - ARCTIC 1942-43 - NORTH
SEA 1942-44 - ENGLISH CHANNEL 1943-44 - NORMANDY 1944
H e r a l d i c D a t a
Badge : On a Field White, a rose Red seeded Gold
M o t t o
Mare dira rosa Decorat : 'The sea enriches, the rose decorates'
D e
t a i l s o
f W a r S e r v i c e
1
9 3 9
August Commissioned with Reservists
for attendance at Royal Review of Reserve Fleet
in Weymouth Bay.
September Remained in commission for war
service when Fleet mobilised. and took up war station
with 19th Destroyer Flotilla at Plymouth
3rd Deployed with Flotilla for convoy
escort and patrol in SW Approaches and Channel.
October Flotilla
duties in Western Approaches Command in continuation.
to
December
1 9 4 0
January Transferred to 16th Destroyer
Flotilla at Harwich for convoy defence in North Sea.
February North Sea
convoy defence with Flotilla in continuation
to Transferred to
Western Approaches Command for Atlantic convoy defence.
March
April Deployed in SW Approaches
3rd Joined outward Convoy OG24 with HM Destroyers VELOX, VERDUN, WAKEFUL, HM
Trawlers LEEDS UNITED
and two French destroyers as escort during passage to Gibraltar
on formation.
(Note :HMS VELOX remained with OG24 until arrival at Gibraltar and
returned with inward
Convoy HG26F and
it is assumed this ship detached fromOGV24 during Atlantic passage.
This ship may
have been detached from Harwich duties to replace another Western
Approaches ship
and was required to return to North
Sea duty.).
May Pennant Number for
visual signalling purposes changed to I01.
26th Detached for duty at Dover in support of evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk
(Operation
DYNAMO –For details see Naval Staff History, NINE DAYS
HAT DUNKIRK
by S D Divine
28th Embarked 925 troops and took passage to Dover to disembark.
June Resumed Flotilla duties
at Harwich for North Sea convoy defence.
July
27th Deployed off Aldeburgh to provide cover
for minesweeping operation.
Under air attack
and sustained serious damage which disabled ship.
(Note : Bow structure blown off and major damage in remaining
hull.
HM Destroyer
WREN was sunk in these attacks.)
Taken to Harwich
under tow
August Under repair
to
December
1 9 4 1
January On completion of repair
carried out post repair trials.
Rejoined Flotilla
at Harwich and resumed North Sea convoy defence and patrol duties.
February Flotilla
deployment in North Sea in continuation.
to December
1 9 4 2
January North Sea duties with Flotilla in continuation.
to Nominated for
detached service with Home Fleet.
July
August Passage
to Scapa
Flow.
September Passage with HM Destroyer WALPOLE
to join escort for Russian convoy.
6th Joined escort for Russian Convoy PQ18 during passage from
Loch Ewe to meet other
mercantiles off Iceland for onward passage to Kola Inlet.
(Note : Escort comprised HM Destroyers CAMPBELL, ESKDALE,
FARNDALE and
MALCOLM.)
7th Detached from PQ14 and joined HM Destroyers KEPPEL, MACKAY
and BRAMHAM
as escort for HM Battleships ANSON, DUKE OF YORK
and HM Cruiser JAMAICA to
provide Distant Cover for transit of PQ18 to Kola Inlet and
passage from Kola Inlet of return
Convoy QP14
25th Return passage to Scapa
Flow with Home Fleet units
(Note ; For details of all Russian Convoy operations see
CONVOYS TORUSSIA by RA Ruegg,
ARCTIC CONVOYS
by R Woodman, THE RUSSIAN CONVOYS by B Schoefield and
CONVOY ! by P Kemp
October On release from Home Fleet
service took passage to Harwich to resume Flotilla duties.
to
November Nominated for further detached
service with Home Fleet,.
December Passage to Scapa Flow
for Russian Convoy defence.
1 9 4 3
January
5th Deployed with HM Destroyers MUSKETEER, QUEENBOROUGH,
RAIDER. WORCESTER,
and Polish ORP PIORUN as screen for HM Battleships KING
GEORGE V, HOWE and HM
Cruiser JAMAICA to provide Distant Cover for passage of return Convoy RA51
from Kola
Inlet to Loch Ewe.
(Note :RA 51 had an unscathed passage as enemy attention had
been diverted to inward Convoy
PQ51B
23rd Deployed with HM Destroyers ECHO,
ECLIPSE, FAULKNOR, INGLEFIELD, RAIDER
QUEENBOROUGH and
ORP PIORUN as screen for same Home Fleet major units providing
cover for passage of inward Convoy JW52 to Kola Inlet.
26th Took return passage with Home Fleet units to Scapa Flow.
February On release from Home Fleet
duties took passage to Harwich to resume North Sea
duties.
Resumed Flotilla deployment at Harwich. for
convoy defence and patrol.
18th In action against E-Boats carrying out
minelaying operations SE of Lowestoft.
March Flotilla duties at Harwich
in continuation.
to December
1 9 4 4
January North Sea
deployment based at Harwich in continuation.
to April
May Nominated for support of
planned allied landings in Normandy
(Operation NEPTUNE)
Joined HM
Destroyer WHITSHED, HM Corvettes BORAGE, LOOSESTRIFE and
HM Motor Launch
119 to form Escort Group 104 of Force L:.
(Note :Exercises were carried out in Home waters in
preparation for NEPTUNE including
assembly of mercantiles and
defence of convoys.)
June
5th Passage to Harwich to join Convoy L4
(Note : Convoy comprised 12 Landing Ships (Tank), 27 Landing
Craft (Tank) carrying
military units to Western Task Force landing beaches.)
Operation
delayed 24 hors.
6th Sailed from Harwich with Group as escort for re-designated
Convoy ETL1.
Took return
passage to Harwich on arrival off beach head.
For details of
activities prior to and during execution of NEPTUNE see
OPERATION
NEPTUNE by K Edwards and LANDINGS IN NORMANDY, June 1944 (HMSO).
7th Deployed with Group in accordance with planned movements. for escort of Build-up convoys
Sustained serious structural damage in collision with US
mercantile.
July Awaiting survey prior
to arrangements for repair
to (Note : Repair
priorities were given to modern ships.)
December Survey carried out.
1 9 4 5
January Ship declared Constructive
Total Loss
February Placed on Disposal List
March Laid-up and awaiting Sale.
to August
P o s
t W a r N o t e s
HMS
MONTROSE was sold to BISCO on 27th January for demolition by Hughes Bolcow and taken in
tow to Blyth where she arrived at the breaker’s yard later that
year.
Addendum
CONVOY ESCORT MOVEMENTS of
HMS MONTROSE
by Don Kindell
Date convoy
Joined convoy
Convoy
No. Left convoy Date convoy
Sailed as escort arrived
18/09/39 18/09/39 BC 003/1 20/09/39 20/09/39
20/09/39 20/09/39 BC 002/2 22/09/39 22/09/39
20/09/39 20/09/39 BC 002R 22/09/39 22/09/39
28/09/39 28/09/39 BC 006F 29/09/39 29/09/39
03/10/39 03/10/39 OA 014 04/10/39 06/10/39
09/10/39 09/10/39 BC 010/1 11/10/39 11/10/39
17/10/39 17/10/39 BC 010R 19/10/39 19/10/39
10/11/39 10/11/39 OB 033 13/11/39 15/11/39
17/11/39 17/11/39 OG 007 20/11/39 24/11/39
16/11/39 17/11/39 OB 036 20/11/39 17/11/39
23/11/39 23/11/39 BC 016/1 24/11/39 24/11/39
25/11/39 25/11/39 OB 041 27/11/39 27/11/39
01/12/39 01/12/39 BC 017/1 03/12/39 03/12/39
09/12/39 09/12/39 BC 018/1 11/12/39 11/12/39
02/01/40 02/01/40 BC 021/1 04/01/40 04/01/40
18/01/40 18/01/40 BC 023/1 20/01/40 20/01/40
21/01/40 21/01/40 BC 022R unknown unknown
26/01/40 26/01/40 BC 024/1 unknown unknown
30/01/40 30/01/40 BC 023R 31/01/40 31/01/40
06/02/40 06/02/40 BC 025/1 unknown unknown
10/02/40 10/02/40 BC 024R 11/02/40 11/02/40
12/02/40 12/02/40 BC 026/1 14/02/40 14/02/40
21/02/40 21/02/40 BC 027/1 23/02/40 23/02/40
23/02/40 23/02/40 BC 026R 24/02/40 24/02/40
24/03/40 25/03/40 OA 116 26/03/40 28/03/40
31/03/40 02/04/40 OB 120 03/04/40 03/04/40
03/04/40 03/04/40 OG 024 14/04/40 08/04/40
07/04/40 07/04/40 BC 033/1 09/04/40 09/04/40
09/04/40 09/04/40 BC 032R 11/04/40 11/04/40
15/04/40 15/04/40 BC 034/1 17/04/40 17/04/40
17/04/40 17/04/40 BC 033R 18/04/40 18/04/40
23/04/40 23/04/40 BC 035/1 24/04/40 24/04/40
25/04/40 25/04/40 BC 034R 26/04/40 26/04/40
01/05/40 01/05/40 BC 036/1 03/05/40 03/05/40
03/05/40 03/05/40 BC 035R 04/05/40 05/05/40
16/05/40 16/05/40 BC 038/1 18/05/40 18/05/40
18/05/40 18/05/40 BC 037R 19/05/40 19/05/40
02/09/42 09/09/42 PQ 018 09/09/42 21/09/42
13/09/42 unknown QP
014 unknown 26/09/42
30/12/42 06/01/43 RA 051 10/01/43 11/01/43
17/01/43 23/01/43 JW 052 24/01/43 27/01/43
14/05/43 14/05/43 CW 178 15/05/43 15/05/43
15/05/43 15/05/43 CE 176 16/05/43 16/05/43
30/05/43 30/05/43 CW 182 31/05/43 31/05/43
31/05/43 31/05/43 CE 180 01/06/43 01/06/43
10/08/43 10/08/43 CW 200 11/08/43 11/08/43
06/01/44 06/01/44 CW 237 07/01/44 07/01/44
07/01/44 07/01/44 CE 235 08/01/44 08/01/44
02/03/44 02/03/44 CW 251 03/03/44 03/03/44
03/03/44 03/03/44 CE 249 04/03/44 04/03/44
27/04/44 27/04/44 CW 265 28/04/44 28/04/44
28/04/44 28/04/44 CE 263 29/04/44 29/04/44
12/06/44 12/06/44 ETM 007 13/06/44 13/06/44
13/06/44 13/06/44 FTM 006 14/06/44 14/06/44
16/06/44 16/06/44 ETM 011 17/06/44 17/06/44
18/06/44 18/06/44 FTM 011 19/06/44 19/06/44
24/06/44 24/06/44 ETM 016 25/06/44 25/06/44
29/06/44 29/06/44 ETM 021 30/06/44 30/06/44
01/07/44 01/07/44 FTM 024 02/07/44 02/07/44
04/07/44 04/07/44 ETM 026 05/07/44 05/07/44
06/07/44 06/07/44 FTM 029 07/07/44 07/07/44
12/07/44 12/07/44 ETC 035 13/07/44 13/07/44
14/07/44 14/07/44 FTC 036 15/07/44 15/07/44
17/07/44 17/07/44 ETM 039 18/07/44 18/07/44
19/07/44 19/07/44 FTM 042 20/07/44 20/07/44
(Note on Convoys)
