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Schofield W
When Allotted: Feb 1954
Scholefield, Keith
Rank: Acting LREM
When Allotted: 21.7.1955
Remarks: To RFR 7.10.59
*Scott Walter (Scotty)
Rank: Telegraphist Commissioning crew.
When Allotted: 9.6.45
Remarks: Listening to U-boat communications.
6 Mess Remembers that the funnel became so hot during sea trails that the paint peeled off. Arrived back in England 16 June 1946
Demobbed 8.7.46
Scudder
When Allotted: 1954
Sears
When Allotted: 1957
Seely, The Hon. D.P.
When Allotted: 1958
Remarks: Commanding Officer
Captain Lord Mottistone,
David Patrick Seely was born on December 16 1920, the fourth son of the 1st Lord Mottistone. David's godparents were Winston Churchill and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII); he entered Dartmouth as a 13-year old cadet.
Died November 24 2011 aged 90
First Patron of the RN Amateur Radio Society (1985)
Was a successful naval
officer, businessman and
supporter of the charity
SANE.
As Lt David Seely, he joined
the destroyer Hesperus in early 1941 (commanded by Donald Macintyre )
Seely's first three months in
Hesperus were spent on
Atlantic convoy duty. In May
1941 the ship was part of a
relief convoy to Malta and
delivered aircraft to the island. She was also part of the destroyer escort of the
battlecruiser Renown and the carrier Ark Royal in the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.
On December 7 1941 Seely
witnessed Macintyre sink his
first U-boat, U-208, by depth
charge; then, on January 15
1942, Macintyre sank a second, U-93. After repairs, Hesperus returned to the Atlantic and escorted a dozen convoys, several without loss. On Boxing Day she sank U-357.In March 1943 Seely was appointed first-lieutenant of the lease-lend destroyer Bazely, and in October he helped successfully defend convoy ONS 206, when wolf pack Schliffen was driven off with the loss of one merchant
ship for the loss of six U
boats; it was one of the most
disastrous nights of the war
for the U-boats.Then, in November, Bazely was part of the escort of Convoy SL 140 when 65 merchant ships were attacked off Cape St Vincent by 13 U-boats of wolf pack
Weddigen. Bazely helped to
sinkU-648 on November 23;
two days later she sank U-600.During Operation Neptune in June 1944, Bazely's escort group was deployed in the Western Approaches to keep U-boats from interfering with the landings in Normandy.In September 1944 Seely
decided to specialise as a
signals officer. On
completing his course he sailed in the Australian destroyer Quickmatch to Sydney, where he joined the destroyer flotilla leader Kempenfelt in the
British Pacific Fleet for the
closing months of the war and the liberation of Hong Kong.He returned to Britain in December 1945, saying he had had a "rather a dull war - I never got sunk".
Shortly after the war he was court-martialled for losing the safe key giving access to a ship’s cryptographic material,
and was deprived of two
years' seniority as a
lieutenant: he thought the
sentence was "very fair," but the Admiralty reduced the punishment on review.
Seely commanded the
destroyer Cossack in 1958-59, and the new frigate Ajax from 1963 to 1965. He was mentioned in despatches for his part in foiling a landing by
enemy soldiers north of Kuala Lumpur during the Malayan Emergency. He was Naval Adviser in Ottawa in 1965-66.
On succeeding his
half-brother as the 4th Lord Mottistone in 1966, he retired from the Navy in the rank of Captain..In retirement he was a director of Radio Rentals
Group; the Distributive
Industry Training Board; and the Cake and Biscuit Alliance.He was appointed CBE in 1984.
Mottistone was Lord
Lieutenant for the Isle of
Wight from 1986 to 1995, and in 1992 was appointed its Governor on the revival of the post (it had not been filled after Lord Mountbatten's
assassination in 1979).
He was a member of the
Royal Yacht Squadron, the longest-serving member of the Royal Cruising Club, and
Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club.
As first chairman of the
mental health charity SANE, he presided over its fortunes from 1986 to 2009, seeing the charity through many difficult
challenges. He married, in 1944, Anthea McMullan, who died last year, and is survived by their two sons and two daughters; another daughter predeceased him.
Semour
Sewell, Alf.
When Allotted: 1947
