{"id":2475,"date":"2016-10-02T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T07:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/?page_id=2475&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-09-09T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:05:43","slug":"pictures-of-abbekerks-lifeboats-from-hms-wallflower","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/?page_id=2475","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Abbekerk&#8217;s lifeboats from HMS Wallflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Terry has send me a series of 5 really amazing pictures that were taken aboard the corvette HMS Wallflower when she spotted the lifeboats of Abbekerk and picked up the 64 survivors. Roy&#8217;s father was radio operator aboard HMS Wallflower and probably has taken this pictures himself.<\/p>\n<p>HMS Wallflower was an escort in the outer screen of convoy ON-124. A bit lost herself the rescue of Abbekerk&#8217;s survivors was close to a miracle. Only months earlier she was equipped with radar (the dome behind the wheelhouse) and the chances of radar &#8216;seeing&#8217; a wooden lifeboat are slim even with modern radar. The obvious very calm sea and weather must have helped. Thinking the radar spotted a submarine on the surface her captain asked the commodore permission to investigate. He got permission and found the lifeboats. The survivors were pulled aboard from the lifeboats quickly with HMS Wallflower slowing down (not stopping) only briefly, afraid Uboats may be shadowing the lifeboats waiting for an easy kill. The lifeboats were then destroyed by gunfire to avoid new rescues and to keep Abbekerks identity from Uboats that may find them. These Flower class corvettes had a top speed of only 15 knots, so she waisted no time and headed back to catch up with the convoy.<\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; width: 100%;\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"HMS Wallflower K44. The corvette that spotted and rescues the survivors of Abbekerks sinking after three days in 2 lifeboats. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/k44-albert-dock-1942.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_k44-albert-dock-1942.jpg?resize=138%2C100\" alt=\"k44-albert-dock-1942\" width=\"138\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"HMS Wallflower spots the two lifeboats of Abbekerk in the far distance. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-0.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-0.jpg?resize=150%2C86\" alt=\"wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-0\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"HMS Wallflower closes in on the two dots that are the lifeboats of Abbekerk. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-1.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-1.jpg?resize=57%2C100\" alt=\"wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-1\" width=\"57\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"The two lifeboats of Abbekerk, seen from HMS Wallflower, sailing for Ireland 600 miles away. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-2.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-2.jpg?resize=150%2C91\" alt=\"wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"The two lifeboats of Abbekerk lowering sail and preparing to board HMS Wallflower. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-3.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-3.jpg?resize=150%2C88\" alt=\"wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"One lifeboat of Abbekerk now alongside the still moving HMS Wallflower. After the survivors were safe on board HMS Wallflower destroyed the lifeboats to prevent new rescues and identification of Abbekerk by other Uboats. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-4.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-4.jpg?resize=58%2C100\" alt=\"wallflower-abbekerk-lifeboats-4\" width=\"58\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Survivors on board HMS Wallflower. COuld be Abbekerks crew, but more probably picked up sutvivors from a Uboat later in the war. Any information about this picture or the men on it is very welcome. (Thanks to Roy Terry)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/survivors-on-deck-wallflower.jpg\" rel=\"%PICTURE_NAME%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/final-voyage\/thumbs\/thumbs_survivors-on-deck-wallflower.jpg?resize=58%2C100\" alt=\"survivors-on-deck-wallflower\" width=\"58\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The last picture only says &#8220;survivors&#8221;. Possibly Abbekerks, but more likely survivors of a sunken Uboat later in the war. Any Information on this picture is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Terry has send me a series of 5 really amazing pictures that were taken aboard the corvette HMS Wallflower when she spotted the lifeboats of Abbekerk and picked up the 64 survivors. Roy&#8217;s father was radio operator aboard HMS&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3746,"parent":109,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2475","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PNWHW-DV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2475\/revisions\/3997"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}