HMS Partridge (1916)

The vessel was assigned to the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla by July 1916.^[8] On 14 February 1917, Partridge, together with the destroyers Plover, Portia and Rob Roy, was ordered to patrol between Peterhead and Aberdeen to counter the German submarine UC-44, which had been attacking trawlers. UC-44 completed her patrol unharmed.^[9]

On 11 December 1917 the destroyer left from Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, along with HMS Pellew and several armed trawlers to escort six merchant ships to Bergen, in Norway.^[10] The convoy was spotted by a flotilla of German destroyers and they unsuccessfully fought an engagement with the attacking destroyers, with Partridge being hit repeatedly by shells and torpedoes.^[10] The destroyer subsequently sank in the North Sea on 12 December 1917.^[6] Reports indicate that 97 of the crew were killed and only 24 were rescued.^[10] Among the dead was Edward John Buley, who had survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic five years earlier.^[11] The wreck is believed to be off the Norwegian coast.^[10] One incident of reported heroism in the sinking, in which a Lieutenant Grey sacrificed a place in a life-raft for another officer resulted in the award of the Stanhope Gold Medal by the Royal Humane Society.^[10]

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