Control Electrical Artificer 1st Class
Michael John Patrick
HUBERY
Royal Navy
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Michael Hubery was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire on 10 October 1940, the son of Thomas Edmund Hubery and Mary Jane Hubery (née Forrest). After leaving school he joined the Royal Navy and trained and qualified as a Control Electrical Artificer – at HMS FISGARD, at Torpoint in East Cornwall, and at HMS COLLINGWOOD, at Fareham in Hampshire.
He joined submarines and trained at HMS DOLPHIN the submarine base in Gosport. In the early 1970s he was drafted to HMS SOVEREIGN ‘standing by while completing’ at the Vickers Shipyard in Barrow in Furness . HMS SOVEREIGN had been launched at Barrow on 17 February 1973 and was ‘Fitting Out’ in the Devonshire Dock in Barrow.
Michael Hubery was killed in a traffic accident on the A74 four miles south of Beattock in Dumfries & Galloway on 12 June 1973. He was a passenger in a car travelling South when it was in a collision with an articulated lorry. The driver and another passenger both (from HMS SOVEREIGN) were injured in the accident.
Michael Hubery of 2, Torridge Drive, Walney Island, Barrow in Furness was the husband of Jennifer Hubery (née Price-King) – they had been married in Laira in Plymouth in 1961.
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I would like to reach out to the family of Michael Hubery.
I am the Daughter of Anthony Harris, who was driving the car of the fatal accident that sadly took Michael’s life.
I hope, if he has family left, they are well and don’t mind me reaching out. I also appreciate if they don’t want to be contacted.