Published: Tuesday, 19th February, 2008 12:00
The search for 'Red'
By Tracy-Ann Carmichael
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Museum bosses have launched a bid to find out more about a Helensburgh man who played a crucial role in the creation of a second World War submarine.
Scotsman ‘Red’ Crawford was the head foreman coppersmith who oversaw production of HMS Sickle at Cammell Laird’s Birkenhead-based yard in the early 1940s.
Work on the Royal Navy vessel, which targeted enemy submarines and warships in the Mediterranean, began in May 1941, before the sub was launched on August 27, 1942.
Red Crawford was one of a handful of people to send a telegram to the vessel’s commander, Lieutenant James Drummond, on the first anniversary of the ‘S’ class sub’s launch in 1942.
But, tragically, Sickle never received a second anniversary telegram. She was lost with all hands in June 1944. It’s thought that the vessel fell prey to mines somewhere in the Antikithera Channel, off Greece.
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