HMS STERLET remembered
HMS STERLET was noted overdue on 27 April 1940 and subsequently reported as lost with all hands. It is now thought that she was most likely sunk on 18 April 1940 in the Skagerrak south of Larvik in Norway in position 58 55’N 10 10’E after an attack by the German anti-submarine trawlers UJ-125, UJ-126 and UJ-128, although it is still also possible that she could have survived that attack only to be mined while returning to base.
Thelma Ellison, a member, writes:
My Grandson Brodie has recently started working there at weekends and college holidays. I attach a YouTube link which I think may be of interest to the Museum.
Nicky Aikien whose name is carved on the memorial wall (HMS STERLET) at the Museum was my Mother’s cousin.
The YouTube video has been created by my Cousin John Raymond Gedling. It includes a musical rendition and photographs. It also contains factual information and a poignant empathic conjecture of Nicky’s and his fellow crewmen’s final moments as the Sub went down. It is a fragment of submarine history brought alive in the composition of this YouTube video.
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