The Battleship H.M.S Renown in Ceylon

ඔබට මතකද කලින් ලිපියකදී අප කී වේල්සයේ කුමාරයා හෙවත් එඩ්වඩ් කුමාරයා 1922දී ලංකාවට ආපු H.M.S. Renown නෞකාව.

H.M.S. කියන්නේ 'Her Majesty's Ship' හෝ 'His Majesty's Ship' කියන අර්ථය. මේ නැව ආයෙත් දෙවන ලෝක යුධ සමයේදී, 1944දී, ලංකාවට එනවා.

HMS Renown possibly at Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) March 1944.
(Photo courtesy of David Buell)

- https://www.maritimequest.com/.../hms_renown_1916_page_6.htm

එසේ පැමිණි එක් බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය නාවිකයෙකු තම මතකය අවදිකරන්නේ මෙලෙසින්.

"Well it’s Ceylon then, I remember it as Ceylon, and the main anchorage, beautiful anchorage, called Trincomalee, so we’re base in Trincomalee with the Eastern Fleet. This is tropical, sun every day, our men, swimming, nearest beach, but all the time the numbers of ships are accumulating, the Americans joined us, in a huge aircraft carrier the Saratoga, the French joined us in the battleship Richelieu, and the fleet is getting together for an attack against the Japs. So we bombarded the Anderman Islands, and the Nicobar islands, almost in the same group, and we also did a bombardment of an oil installation and Japanese airfield in Surabaya in Java, and when I say we bombarded it, we never saw the land, because we had 15” guns on Renown, that’s not 15” long,, its 15” diameter, the shells weighed three quarters of a ton for a start, so we were bombarding from about twelve miles, we had spotter planes from the carrier Illustrious, we had several carriers with us, Illustrious was one of them, and when the photographs were taken, it was just like a zip fastener, bombarded right down the runways. The Japanese didn’t like it, but we were happy with that, and that was two of our main actions."

- With the Eastern Fleet in HMS Renown, 1944 -

January 1944: HMS Unicorn (bottom), HMS Renown and HMS Illustrious at Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The cruiser HMS Ceylon is seen behind the smoke in the center of the photograph and HMHS Tjitjalengka is seen at left.
(Photo courtesy of John Failes from the collection of Edward Failes, R.N.)

- https://www.maritimequest.com/.../hms_renown_1916_page_6.htm

මෙවන් තවත් නාවිකයෙකුගේ මතක දිගහැරුමක් පහළ වීඩියෝවෙන් ශ්‍රවනය කළ හැක. එහි 1940 ගණන්වල ත්‍රිකුණාමල නාවික කඳවුර පිළිබඳවත්, ඒ පැත්තේ කාලගුණය දේශගුණය පිළිබඳවත්, දියතලාව කඳවුර පිළිබඳවත්, ජපන් ප්‍රහාර හමුවේ ත්‍රිකුණාමල වරායේ ආරක්ෂිතබව පිළිබඳවත් ඔහු කතාබහක යෙදේ.

HMS Renown and Illustrious in Trincomalee Harbor, Ceylon in early 1944.

- https://laststandonzombieisland.com/.../hms-renown-and.../

EASTERN FLEET BIG SHIPS AT TRINCOMALEE, 11 APRIL 1944.

Left to right: HMS NEWCASTLE (cruiser), HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (carrier), USS SARATOGA (carrier), HMS VALIANT (battleship), HMS RENOWN (battleship) in Trincomalee Harbour.

- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205155562

BEFORE THE ATTACK ON SURABAYA. MAY 1944 ON BOARD HMS RENOWN WITH THE EASTERN FLEET. THE DAYS BEFORE THE MAY 17TH RAID ON SURABAYA BY A MIXED BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVAL AND AIR FORCE.

Sailmaker J W BRIGHT has made a miniature hammock for his cat Trinco, named after Trincomalee, Ceylon.

මූලාශ්‍ර:

- With the Eastern Fleet in HMS Renown 1944, Guernsey Museum

- HMS Renown (1916), Maritime Quest

- Imperial War Museum