HMS Talisman (N78)

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HMS Talisman (N78)
Royal Navy
HMS Talisman on February 11, 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Triton class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : September 27, 1938
Launch : January 29, 1940
Commissioning: June 29, 1940
Whereabouts: Missed in the Mediterranean since September 17, 1942 .
Technical data
(see Triton class )

HMS Talisman (N78) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . The warship was used in World War II and was lost in the Mediterranean in 1942 .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

The submarine caught a French fishing vessel during one of its first patrols in November 1940. The captured ship was used for a short time to covertly observe enemy submarine movements off the Gironde and then brought to Falmouth .

From 1941 the submarine was used in the Mediterranean. On August 16, 1941, the Talisman attacked the British submarine HMS Otus 140 nautical miles northwest of Alexandria . The erroneous torpedo attack failed and the Otus escaped unscathed. In the summer and autumn of 1941, the Talisman sank two sailing ships and three larger freighters. An attack on the German freighter Salzburg on October 7, 1941 failed.

On September 10, 1942, the HMS Talisman left its base in Gibraltar . On September 15, 1942, she reported the sighting of a submarine off the Algerian coast. That was the last contact. Presumably the Talisman ran into a sea ​​mine on September 17, 1942 in the Strait of Sicily . The submarine was officially declared missing on September 18.

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. Philip Stewart Francis (March 1, 1940 - March 5, 1941)
  • Lt. Michael Willmott (March 5, 1941 - † September 17/18, 1942)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
November 25, 1940 In the Bay of Biscay near Lorient at 47 ° 16 '  N , 4 ° 16'  W, the French fishing vessel Le Clipper (40 GRT) is deployed.
August 30, 1941 Two sailing ships are sunk north of Benghazi .
October 3, 1941 The wreckage of the German freighter Yalova (3751 GRT), which was stranded as a result of an attack by HMS Tetrarch, was destroyed off Agios Giorgios .
October 4, 1941 North-east of Kea at 37 ° 45 '  N , 24 ° 35'  E, the Vichy-French passenger ship Theophile Gautier (8194 GRT) is torpedoed and sunk.
December 11, 1941 60 nautical miles west-south-west of Schiza is at 36 ° 23 '  N , 20 ° 33'  O Italian cargo ship Calitea (4013 BRT) sunk with torpedoes.

See also

Web links

Commons : HMS Talisman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ Philip Stewart Francis in uboat.net (engl.)
  3. ↑ Michael Willmott on uboat.net (engl.)

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 . See also: talisman .