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Able Sea. Clifford Price

Royal Navy HM MTB 697

(d.17th April 1945)

Clifford Price served on MTB697, a Fairmile D class motor torpedo boat. This MTB took place in many a clandestine operation, taking SIS agents to and from their various landings in Brittany. The vessel was lost on the 17th of April 1945, serving with 59th MTB Flotilla, sunk by mine off Krk Island, NE Adriatic Calculated as 0.1 miles N from Croatia, Glavotok Point. He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

All Other hands lost with Clifford defending the Islands around Croatia. Their Graves are the seas around the Islands of Dalmatia H.M.M.G.B.697 17th April 1945

  • Able Seaman John Beddoes age 19
  • Stoker Dennis Clarke age 20
  • Stoker James Clarke age 20
  • Leading M/M John Colthurst age 20
  • Able Seaman Kenneth Constable age 20
  • Leading Stoker Arthur Dickens age 24
  • Able Seaman Frank Fennell age 23
  • Stoker Leonard Peabody age 20
  • Able Seaman Clifford Price age 20
  • Chief M/M Brian Richardson DSM age 35



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