HMS Charybdis
Anti Aircraft Cruiser
Commissioned 15 November 1941
Joined Fleet 13 March 1942
Charybdis and Limbourne sunk by enemy action
off the French coast 23 October 1943
150 survivors from 600 crew.
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HMS Charybdis Anti Aircraft Cruiser Commissioned 15 November 1941 Joined Fleet 13 March 1942 Charybdis and Limbourne sunk by enemy action off the French coast 23 October 1943 150 survivors from 600 crew. |
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I have added this page in memory of my father, Able Seaman Wallace Arthur Steggle, who was lost with so many others from the Charybdis. I don't remember meeting him, and he has no known grave.
The Charybdis Association meets twice yearly, once in Birmingham and once on the island of Guernsey, where several bodies were washed ashore. An annual remembrance service is held on the island in October.
The wrecks of the Charybdis and HMS Limbourne were located by divers in 1993 and 2002 respectively and are designated war graves. Pictures of the wrecks are shown in the book 'Shipwrecks of the Channel Islands' by John Ovenden and David Shayer.
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