HMS Tactician (P314)

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HMS Tactician (P314)
Royal Navy
HMS Tactician on November 27, 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Taciturn class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : November 13, 1941
Launch : July 29, 1942
Commissioning: November 29, 1942
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1963.
Technical data
(see Taciturn class )

HMS Tactician (P314) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

HMS Tactician was laid on November 13, 1941 at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow . The launch took place on July 29, 1942. HMS Tactician was one of the units of the T-class, whose pressure hull was riveted. The submarine was used in the Mediterranean after commissioning on November 29, 1942 .

On May 5, 1943 recessed Tactician ten nautical miles west of Grosseto at 42 ° 34 '  N , 10 ° 45'  O the Italian auxiliary patrol boat V17 / Pia (385 BRT) with the deck gun .

On June 12, 1943, the boat with the deck gun was able to sink the Italian schooner Bice (1459 GRT) five nautical miles northeast of Bari . Two days later, on June 14, 1943, it torpedoed and damaged the Italian freighter Rosandra (8035 GRT) off the Albanian coast , and the ship sank the following day.

Tactician was later used in the Asian theater of war.

On February 28, 1944, it sank a small Japanese unit off the Malay coast near Penang . In the same month it attacked a Japanese submarine with torpedoes north of Sumatra without success . In February 1944, a small Japanese unit was sunk off the Malay coast and a Japanese submarine was unsuccessfully attacked with torpedoes north of Sumatra. On May 27, 1944, HMS Tactician sank two Siamese sailing ships.

The submarine remained in service after the war and operated off the coasts of the Korean Peninsula during the Korean War , relocating to New Zealand in 1953 and later to Australia .

HMS Tactician was scrapped in Newport, England in late 1963 .

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. Edward Arthur Woodward (August 1942 - December 12, 1942)
  • According to Cdr. Anthony Foster Collett (December 12, 1942 - October 1, 1944)
  • Lt. Charles Philip Bowers (October 1, 1944 - November 15, 1944)
  • According to Cdr. Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell (November 15, 1944 - June 25, 1945)
  • Lt. William Henry Kett (June 25, 1945 - November 9, 1945)

Web links

Commons : Taciturn class  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. 5th edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: Fight Under Water - Submarines from 1776 to the Present. 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See uboat.net , accessed December 28, 2008
  2. ↑ a b The sources for the end of duty and scrapping of the HMS Tactician (P314) are contradictory. Hutchinson states that the submarine was sold on December 6, 1962 and scrapped in Newport, uboat.net states that the submarine was scrapped on December 6, 1963 in Newport. British submarines in World War II ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. is the date for the " disposal " ( disposal ) on December 1, 1963rd @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.cogeco.ca
  3. ↑ Edward Arthur Woodward in uboat.net (English)
  4. ↑ Anthony Foster Collett on uboat.net (English)
  5. ↑ Charles Philip Bowers on uboat.net (English)
  6. ↑ Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell on uboat.net (English)
  7. ↑ William Henry Kett on uboat.net (English)

Remarks

  1. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship . Tactician means tactician.