Cother photo gallery

Lieutenant Patrick Cothe rDSC, RNVR photos

A collection of photographs charting his career in the Royal Navy 1940 to 1946.

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HMS AQUAMARINE

1940 - The officers of the armed boarding vessel HMT Aquamarine. L to R: Temp. Lt. A. (Alexander) Wallace, RNVR, Lt.Cdr. S.R.J. (Sidney Richard James) Woods, RNR [in command AQUAMARINE until May.1940], Sub-Lt. D.B. (Dryden Byrne) Phillipson, RNR , Temp. Sub-Lt. P.C. (Patrick Corfe) Cother, RNVR

The ships company of the armed boarding vessel HMT Aquamarine.Officers Seated, 2nd row, central, L to R: Sub Lt D B Phillipson RNR, Lt Cdr S R J Woods RNR, Lt A Wallace RNVR, Sub Lt P C Cother RNVR.

HMS Aquamarine Kirkwall Bay Orkney Is,

View of the Faeroe Is. From the bridge of Aquamarine.

Looking aft from gun platform # 2 on watch.

Towing motor launches.

Heavy seas.

Skipper supervising reconstruction, PO nearest camera

Gun crew – includes Faulkner, MacDonald, Stuart, and Nicolson.

Skipper and Number 1 wearing balaclava helmet.

Some of the crew.

Three buccaneers - Sub Lt Phillipson RNR, Lt Cdr Woods RNR, Lt Wallace RNVR.

Towing close to the coast.

Towing close to the coast

Temp. Lt A Wallace, RNVR, Temp. Sub Lt P C Cother RNVR, Lt N P McLeod RNR [in command AQUAMARINE from May.1940],

HMS MALLOW

The Flower class corvette HMS Mallow (K 81

The Flower class corvette HMS Mallow (K 81) off the Icelandic coast.

View from the bridge showing Mallows open gun turret.

HMS Mallow at sea, starboard side looking forward.

HMS Mallow at sea, starboard side looking aft.

Amidships, boat deck.

A signal man sends a message using semaphore flags.

HMS Mallow leads other Flower class corvettes of 8th Escort Group out of Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

May 1941, Hvalfjord Iceland, Mallows cooks and stewards rowing ashore in the ships whaler.

One of Mallows “bunting tossers” (signal man) poses off the Icelandic coast.

A musical interlude – a member of the engine room staff with his squeeze box.

5 Pilots of 772 Fleet Requirements Unit with a wildcat

Sub Lt. P F Pallott RNVR takes a sextant reading.

Six of Mallows officers - L to R: Temp. Sub-Lt. R.A. (Robert Adams) Burnett, RNVR, Temp. Lt. P.C. (Patrick Corfe) Cother, RNVR , Lt.Cdr. W.B. (William Brown) Piggot, RNR, Lt. Brignall [?], RNR , Lt. W.R.B. (William Robert Boyce) Noall, RNR, Temp. Mid. Burts [?], RNVR.