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SUPPLEMENT
to
The London Gazette
Registered as a Newspaper
Thursday, 26 FEBRUARY 1948
LOSS of H.M. SHIPS PRINCE OF WALES AND REPULSE
The following Despatch was submitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on the 17th December, 1941, by Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, K.C.B., D.S.O., Commander-m-Chief, Eastern Fleet.
Office of the British Naval
Commander-in-Chief.
Eastern Fleet,,
17th December 1941.
- Be pleased to lay before the Board the accompanying reports on the operations resulting In the loss of H.M. Ships PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE on 10th December, 1941.
- These reports comprise a narrative of the operations drawn up by my direction and the original reports from the Commanding and surviving Officers of H.M. Ships concerned. *
- The press of time and circumstances have prevented a more thorough analysis of the operations being made so far and I consider it preferable to despatch forthwith the available evidence, as many of the officers concerned are now returning to the United Kingdom.
- In the circumstances, I feel unable, as I would wish to have done, to bring to the special notice of Their Lordships cases of individual good service, of which there were many. I will submit my further observations at a later stage, but in the meantime, I would ask Their Lordships to obtain from Captain W. G. Tennant, R.N., and Lieutenant-Commander A. G. Skipwith, R.N., their recommendations for the recognition of those who were specially deserving.
- All accounts agree that In coolness, determination, and cheerfulness in adverse circumstances, the ships' companies of these two ships
(Signed) G. LAYTON,
Vice-Admiral,
Commander-in-Chief.
Admiralty footnote:
* Only the reports by the Captain of H M S. REPULSE and senior surviving officer of H M S. PRINCE OF WALES, named In paragraph 4, are here reproduced lived up to the best traditions of HIS Majesty's Service.
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