Stoker 2nd Class D/KX 140615 Kenneth BEELEY
Royal Navy H.M.S. Bramble
31 Dec 1942 aged 18
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 70, Column 3.
Son of Arthur and Elsie Beeley, of Adswood, Cheshire.
On 22 Dec 1942 H.M.S. Bramble (Commander Henry Thew Rust, DSO) sailed with Convoy JW-51B from Loch Ewe to Russia. The convoy was sighted by the German submarine U-354 on the 30th, and the German cruisers Admiral Hipper and Lützow, accompanied by six destroyers, sailed from Altenfjord to intercept them in Operation Regenbogen, leading to the Battle of the Barents Sea.
On 31 Dec H.M.S. Bramble, which had been detached to search for stragglers, was returning to the convoy when she encountered Admiral Hipper and three destroyers. Hipper promptly opened fire with her 8-inch guns. H.M.S. Bramble returned fire, but was overwhelmed and finally sunk with all 121 crew, by the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt.
H.M.S.Bramble (photo ADM 176/873)
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