HMS Tally-Ho (P317)

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HMS Tally-Ho (P317)
Royal Navy
HMS Tally-Ho in May 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Taciturn class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : March 25, 1942
Launch : December 23, 1942
Commissioning: April 12, 1943
Whereabouts: Sold as scrap in 1967 and demolished in Briton Ferry.
Technical data
(see Taciturn class )

HMS Tally-Ho (P317) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after. In the Pacific War, the submarine sank the Japanese light cruiser Kuma and the German submarine UIT 23 along with several cargo ships and other small units .

Mission history

P317 (ex P97 ) was laid down at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness on March 25, 1942 , launched on December 23, 1942 and was sold to the Royal Navy on April 12, 1943 under the name HMS Tally- Ho put into service.

The submarine reached its first combat success in the Northern Straits of Malacca than on November 10, 1943 at 6 ° 12 '  N , 99 ° 25'  O the Japanese cargo ship Kisogawa Maru with torpedoes sank.

Tally-Ho torpedoed and sank January 11, 1944 northwest of Penang at 5 ° 26 '  N , 99 ° 52'  O the cruiser Kuma , on January 15, 1944 south of Port Blair at 10 ° 3 '  N , 93 ° 5'  O the Japanese military transporter Ryuko Maru , on February 14, 1944 in Malakka Street at 4 ° 27 '  N , 100 ° 11'  E the German submarine UIT 23 and on February 21, 1944 in Malakka Street at 4 ° 0 '  N , 101 ° 0 '  O Japanese military transport Daigen Maru No. 6 .

On May 14, 1944, the British submarine laid sea ​​mines in Malakka Street. Four days later, the Japanese ran tanker Nichiyoku Maru at 3 ° 41 '  N , 99 ° 4'  O on one of these mines and damaged. On August 22, 1944, Tally-Ho sank a Japanese coaster in Malakka Street and two days later three small Japanese sailing ships with the deck guns . On October 6, 1944, the British submarine sank 110 nautical miles southwest of Penang at 4 ° 20 '  N , 98 ° 24'  O the Japanese auxiliary U-hunter Cha is a 2 . On November 17 and 18, 1944, Tally-Ho sank ten Japanese sailing ships with on-board artillery in Malakka Street. Two days later, on November 20, 30 nautical miles east of the southern tip of Great Nicobar ( Nicobar Islands ) at 6 ° 55 '  N , 94 ° 15'  E, the Japanese auxiliary mine-layer Ma 4 was sunk.

HMS Tally-Ho remained in active service with the Royal Navy after the war and was scrapped in Briton Ferry, Wales in 1967 .

Commanders

  • Lt. Leslie William Abel Bennington (January 25, 1943 - April 1945)
  • Lt. John Paton Fyfe (May 22, 1945 - October 1945)
  • ...

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 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. ↑ a b The uboat.net is an additional shipyard, the John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. in Clydebank, Scotland. Bagnasco and Hutchinson do not mention the shipyard.
  2. ↑ a b Hutchinson and Bagnasco give no information about the launching of the T-class submarines. The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .
  3. ↑ a b Kuma on www.combinedfleet.com (English)
  4. ↑ a b UIT 23 in uboat.net (English)
  5. ↑ Leslie William Abel Bennington on uboat.net (English)
  6. ↑ John Paton Fyfe in 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 . HMS Tally-Ho means Halali .