Silver Register War Service Records
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Silver Register ~ War Service Records

The list includes those Silvers
that served in the Clyde River Patrol in WW II.

The photo is of a wooden plaque carved
from a photo copy of a CRP lapel badge
by SMYA Member Ed White, owner of 'Cerveva'.
See The Clyde River Patrol Photo Album
SR. No. Name.Class.Year Built.British Registry Of Ships No.
1ALINE30ft SILVERETTE1935164748
Kept in a boat shed throughout the Second World war on Loch Aline.
2TIMPAULLA36ft SILVERETTE1937165238
June 6 '40 Requesitioned on charter - £11-10s per month July 12 '40 - Dover Aug 6 '41 - Compulsory Purchase Nov 2 '41 - Tilbury Nov 9 '41 Cliffe Dec 7 '41 - Greenhithe Dec 21 '41 in for repairs at Greenhithe repairs complete Jan 6 '42 Greenhithe till end of War. June 11 1945 under care and maintainance by Directorate of Sea Transport and sold shortly after.
First listing July 12 1940
Hotchkiss machine gun fitted on foredeck
6WAIRAKEI IIBROWN OWL1932163031
Requisitioned early in the war and commanded by lieut. Leyland. Machine gun mounted on foredeck with rifle racks round her decks. said to have evacuated 150 soldiers from Dunkirk.
8MAADISILVER LEAF1936164751
River Clyde Small Boat Pool(MY Fire) 1942 -
Listed as Official Number 164754 Possibly a mistake. however correct L.O.A. listed.
Fire Patrol Boat.
10BROWN OWLBROWN OWL1928160326
Dunkirk 'Operation Dynamo '1940
River Clyde Small Boat Pool(MB) 1942
Number. RN209
Remained in service until 1948. Paticipated in evacuation of Dunkirk
11ZAIDAMAPLE LEAF1921146264
Kept on the Holy Loch at Morris & Lorimer's where she saw out the war years ashore under cover with her propeller removed!
13MERIDIESSILVER LEAF1937165224
Requisitioned and run by WRENS during the war. Wheelhouse burnt and believed to have been taken back to Silvers for rebuilding.
19CAIRNGORMSILVER LEAF1937166117
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (AUX) 1942 -
(Listed As Official Number 166115 SILVER)
Clyde River Patrol Greenock/Port Glasgow Reporting to 'HMS Spartiate' Bowling.
Listed as being at Dunkirk as 'Hyskeir'
26MERO36ft SILVERETTE1934163762
During the war was used as a research vessel studying plankton as a possible wartime food source.
28DUNEDINUNCLASSED1936165212
1940 - FEB 4 - 25. SCAPA HDPC."
30CERVEZA30ft SILVERETTE1935164749
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (ML) - 1942
Clyde River Patrol based at RENFREW reporting to base h.q. 'HMS Spartiate' at Bowling. crew of 4 wrecked during blitz of March 1941 salvaged and recommissioned. sunk later and damaged more than once but always recommissioned (from hand written report)
Believed - Served on the Clyde towing barrage balloons was damaged by a bomb.
35GRIFFIN30ft SILVERETTE1936165218
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (ML) - 1942
Clyde River Patrol Renfrew reporting to base H.Q. 'HMS Spartiate' at Bowling.
(From hand written note) - Sister ship to 'cerveza' but with a few alterations. Cockpit is enclosed in glass windows. No shelves in after cabin giving a roomier effect and engines covered much neater in cockpit.
1ST trip was Sat/Sun 1ST/2ND April1944 Glasgow to Dumbuck as NZ Boat. Tied up for night to moorings. This was built in 1936 by silver of rosneath silverette no. 27.
47RYSAUNCLASSED192514782
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (AUX) 1942 -
Clyde River Patrol
Was grounded when blown out of water by aerial bomb whilst moored alongside a boat on a buoy and was nearly written off. she was then extensively re-built by Mcalister's yard at Dumbarton. (report and cartoon from Evening news available)
49NIVAGSILVER LEAF1933163033
1941 - 1945 Minesweeping duties and air crew rescue craft based at Loch Aline off the sound of Mull on the west coast of Scotland.
53SILVER TIDESILVER LEAF1937165237
Clyde River Patrol Greenock/Port Glasgow reporting to 'HMS Spartiate' Bowling
60MOIENA54ft BROWN OWL1934163753
After Dunkirk she was used for auxiliary patrol at Brightlingsea and continued as hydrophone training ship at LowestoftSuffolk. In 1941 compulsory purchase by the Admiralty saw out the rest of her war years. Her career was blackened when in 1976 she was arrested and confiscated by customs officers after she had smuggled a total of 10 000 kilograms of hashish in Mediterranean waters.
Lifted 1,500 troops from the beaches at Dunkirk finaly returned with H.M.S. Wakeful & H.M.S. Grafton which were both lost.
61SILVER GARE36ft SILVERETTE1938181184
Riverclyde Small Boat Pool(1942)
62NYCTEAUNCLASSED1927149382
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (MY) 1942 - Number RN
77SILVER CLOUDUNCLASSED1936164757
River Clyde Small Boat Pool(ML) 1942 -
Number. RN120. Requesitioned June/July 1940
Listed under Ministry Of War Transport Records up until Jan 1941 then not mentioned.
not listed as being at Dunkirk on the 'Dynamo List'.
79JAVELIN30ft SILVERETTE1931163044
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (ML) 1942 -
Number . M87RN41 - Allocated to Sea Transport.
Still listed under Admiralty in 1948.
82SILVER BIRDSILVER LEAF1938166130
River Clyde Small Boat Pool (ML) - 1942
Clyde River Patrol Greenock/Port Glasgow reporting to 'HMS Spartiate' Bowling.

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