HMS Talent (P322)

Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch Mr. Ms. Zwaardvis HMS Talent (P322)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Taciturn class ( T class )
Navy :	Dutch Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	October 13, 1942
Launch :	July 17, 1943
Commissioning:	November 23, 1943
Whereabouts:	Decommissioned on December 11, 1962 and sold as scrap in Amsterdam on July 12, 1963 .
Technical data (see Taciturn class )

Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch ( HMS Talent (P322) ) was a submarine of the Dutch Royal Navy during and after World War II . The submarine was built in 1950 in Mr. Renamed Ms. Zwaardvis .

Mission history

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

Construction and first use

HMS Talent was laid on October 13, 1942 at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow . Before it was launched on July 17, 1943, the submarine was taken over by the Dutch Navy on March 23, 1943 and renamed Zwaardvisch . Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch was commissioned by Prince Bernhard on November 23, 1943 .

Between December 1943 and May 1944 the submarine was stationed in Holy Loch . After test drives between December 1943 and February 1944, the boat patrolled the North Atlantic in February 1944 , off the Norwegian coast in March 1944 and off the Portuguese coast in May 1944 .

Zwaardvisch reached Gibraltar on May 29, 1944 and then ran via Valletta , Port Said , Suez Canal and Aden to Trincomalee . From then on, the Dutch submarine was used in the Pacific War against the Japanese Empire and its allies .

Pacific War

In August 1944, Zwaardvisch undertook a patrol into the Strait of Malacca from his British base on Ceylon (Trincomalee) . There the Dutch submarine sank on August 18 at 4 ° 0 '  N , 99 ° 32'  O the Japanese Junk Kim Hup Soen with the deck gun . On August 19, at 4 ° 30 '  N , 98 ° 15'  E, two and on August 21, at 4 ° 15 '  N , 99 ° 14'  E , another sailing ship was sunk with artillery.

In connection with a reconnaissance mission to Christmas Island , Zwaardvisch moved to Australia at the beginning of September 1944 . Between September 7, 1944 and May 1945, the submarine was under US command and was stationed in Fremantle .

Between September 26 and October 26, 1944, the Dutch submarine patrolled the Java Sea , attacking several enemy units. On October 6, recessed Zwaardvisch before Semarang at 6 ° 20 '  S , 111 ° 28'  O the German submarine U 168 with torpedoes . On 10 October, southwest of Bawean at 5 ° 57 '  S , 112 ° 29'  O the Japanese patrol boat Koei Maru sunk with the deck gun. Was on October 15 in front of Surabaya at 6 ° 30 '  S , 111 ° 35'  O the Japanese research vessel Kaiyo Maru No. 2 also sunk with artillery on board. On October 17, torpedoed Zwaardvisch before Bawean at 5 ° 26 '  S , 113 ° 48'  O Japanese minelayer Itsukushima and the auxiliary minelayer Wakataka . Itsukushima took a direct hit and sank. Wakataka was damaged.

The submarine patrolled the South China Sea between November 28 and December 20, 1944 , and there was no fighting.

In the period between January 30 and March 6, 1945, the submarine carried out another patrol in the South China Sea. On February 7, two Japanese ships were attacked unsuccessfully. On February 16, Zwaardvisch was attacked by a Japanese plane in Lombok Street and badly damaged. The US Balao-class submarine USS Charr escorted the battered Zwaardvisch to its home base in Fremantle.

Between April 9 and May 9, 1945, the submarine made its last patrol in the Pacific War and patrolled the Java Sea. On April 25, two Malaysian sailing ships were boarded off Surabaya and sunk with explosive charges.

On June 14, 1945 Zwaardvisch left the Australian base and ran back to Great Britain. The submarine spent the end of the war in English shipyards, where it was overhauled.

After the war

After the repairs, the submarine was taken out of active service on September 15, 1945 as a result of the end of the war and mothballed in British ports. In April 1946 the inactive warship was transferred to Rotterdam . In 1947 the Dutch Navy reactivated the submarine. In the summer of 1947 Zwaardvis sailed with the Dutch submarine O 23 to the Netherlands Antilles and returned to Rotterdam on October 31, 1947. In 1948 Queen Wilhelmina visited the boat.

In 1950 the spelling of the boat name was changed due to a spelling reform of the Dutch language by Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch in Mr. Ms. Zwaardvis changed. The Dutch navy continued to use the submarine for 12 more years and had it modernized, whereby the deck gun and anti-aircraft armament , which had meanwhile become useless, were removed , as was the case with submarines around the world . The removal of the external arms was intended to reduce drag, thereby increasing underwater speed and range.

On the occasion of the flood disaster of 1953 , the crew of the Zwaardvis were also on duty to support the rescue workers. The crew was honored by Queen Juliana for their extraordinary commitment.

Zwaardvis collided on December 4, 1957 in the Nieuwe Waterweg near Maassluis with the cargo ship SS Tanar , both ships were damaged.

On February 29, 1960, the Moroccan port city of Agadir was devastated by a severe earthquake in which up to 15,000 residents of the city were killed. In March 1960, an international relief mission followed, in which, in addition to various other naval forces, the Dutch Navy with larger units, such as the cruiser De Ruyter , and also smaller units, such as the Zwaardvis , were involved.

Mr. Ms. Zwaardvis was finally decommissioned on December 11, 1962 and removed from the fleet register on January 15, 1963.

The boat was sold on July 12, 1963 to Jos de Smet in Alkmaar for the scrap value of 166,500 guilders and then scrapped.

Commanders

• Ltz. I Hendrikus Abraham Waldemar Goossens (November 23, 1943 - March 23, 1945)
• Ltz. II Jan van Dapperen (March 23, 1945 - September 15, 1945)
• Ltz. I Niels Joachim Heiberg Gregory (May 1, 1947 - July 12, 1948)
• ...
• Ltz. I Rudolf van Wely (April 12, 1950 - February 1, 1951)
• Ltz. I Henri Robert Reitsma (February 1, 1951 - August 31, 1951)
• ...
• Ltz. I Henri Robert Reitsma (December 17, 1951 - December 20, 1952)
• ...
• Ltz. I Hendrik Jan Brakema (January 23, 1953 - June 1, 1953)
• ...
• Ltz. I Ane Simon de Vries (February 15, 1954 - February 17, 1954)
• ...
• Ltz. I George Pieter Floris Munnik (December 17, 1954 - April 12, 1955)
• ...
• Fredrikus Bernardus Hamilton (October 29, 1956 - June 7, 1957)
• ...
• Charles van der Zweep (September 2, 1957 - November 20, 1957)
• Ltz. I Dirk Schrijvershof (November 20, 1957 - April 29, 1958)
• ...
• Ltz. II Gerard Jan van de Griendt (October 13, 1958 - April 6, 1959)
• Ltz. I Dirk Schrijvershof (April 7, 1959 - May 26, 1959)
• Adriaan Frederik de Bruïne (May 26, 1959 - January 6, 1960)
• Marcelis Deege (January 6, 1960 - January 26, 1960)
• Adriaan Frederik de Bruïne (January 26, 1960 - May 23, 1960)
• Jan Hendrik van Rede (May 23, 1960 - May 27, 1960)
• ...
• Jan Hendrik van Rede (January 16, 1961 - October 12, 1961)
• Carel Adriaan Frans van Well Groeneveld (October 12, 1961 - December 11, 1962)

See also

• HMS Talent (other British ships of the same name)
• Mr. Ms. Zwaardvis (other Dutch ships of the same name)

Web links

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

• Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch at www.dutchsubmarines.com ( Engl. )
• HMS Talent on uboat.net (English)
• Mr. Ms. Zwaardvisch on uboat.net (English)
• British submarines during World War II (English)

literature

• Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
• Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The uboat.net gives as an additional shipyard the John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. in Clydebank, Scotland. Bagnasco and Hutchinson do not mention the shipyard.
2. ↑ Hutchinson and Bagnasco do not provide any information on the launching of the T-class submarines. The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .
3. ↑ Itsukushima on www.combinedfleet.com (English)
4. ↑ Hendrikus Abraham Waldemar Goossens ( Memento of the original dated August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
5. ↑ Jan van Dapperen ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
6. ↑ Niels Joachim Heiberg Gregory ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 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. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
7. ↑ Rudolf van Wely on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Henri Robert Reitsma ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
9. ↑ Hendrik Jan Brakema ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
10. ↑ Ane Simon de Vries ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2010 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. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
11. ↑ George Pieter Floris Munnik ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
12. ↑ Fredrikus Bernardus Hamilton ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
13. ↑ Charles van der Zweep ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Dirk Schrijvershof ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
15. ↑ Gerard Jan van de Griendt ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Adriaan Frederik de Bruïne ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2010 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. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
17. ↑ Marcelis Deege ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
18. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Hendrik van Rede ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 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. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 
19. ↑ Carel Adriaan Frans van Well Groeneveld ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.dutchsubmarines.com (English) 

Remarks

1. ↑ Mr. Ms. is the abbreviation for Harer Majesteits , which means Her Majesty , and is the name prefix of Dutch ships. Zwaardvisch ( ndl. ) Means swordfish .
2. ↑ The name HMS Talent was intended for three T-class submarines . Talent (I) (P322) was handed over to the Dutch Navy in 1943 and was given the name Zwaardvisch . Talent (II) (P343) was supposed to be named instead, but was not built because the building contract was canceled. Talent (III) ( P337 ) was originally launched under the name HMS Tasman and was renamed HMS Talent in April 1945 .
3. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship , see also Talent .
4. ↑ Ltz. I stands for Luitenant ter Zee of the 1 ^st class and corresponding to the German rank Korvettenkapitän .
5. ↑ Ltz. II stands for Luitenant ter zee of the 2 ^e class and corresponds to the German rank of Oberleutnant zur See .