The Wartime Memories Project - HMS Venetia

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Information. HMS Venetia was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Govan in Scotland. She was launched on the 29th of October 1917 HMS Venetia was mined and sunk about 12 nautical miles north-east of Margate, Kent on 19th October 1940. I would like to speak to anyone who can give me information about my grandad George Henry Damsell who was captured at Dunkirk on 23 may 1940 and marched to stalag VIIIB. He was seconded from HMS Venetia to the landing craft Colombo. He joined the Navy as a boy 2 oct 1915. His official number was J44814. Photographs If you have any Photographs you would like to share please get in touch. List of those who served on HMS Venetia Lt.Cdr. Desmond Lisburn Curtis Craig. RN. Captain. Read his Story George Henry Damsell Read his Story Sub.Lt. Marcus Eyre Lloyd Maunsell. (d. 24rd May 1940) Sub.Lt. John Stephen Ellison Rogers. (d. 19 Oct 1940) If you have any names to add to this list, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch. If you have a story which you would like to share, or a website dedicated to a ship or sailor, please get in touch. Send an E-mail to Links Ships Index Website and ALL Material © Copyright MMII - All Rights Reserved