HMS Tantalus (P318)

HMS Tantalus (P318)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Taciturn class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	June 6, 1942
Launch :	February 24, 1943
Commissioning:	June 2, 1943
Whereabouts:	Demolished in Milford Haven in November 1950 .
Technical data (see Taciturn class )

HMS Tantalus (P318) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II .

history

The HMS Tantalus was laid down on June 6, 1942 at Vickers-Armstrong . The launch took place on February 24, 1943. The commissioning followed on June 2, 1943. The boat was mainly used in the Asian theater of war.

In April 1944, the submarine sank the Malay tug Kampung Besar and the Malay ship Pulo Salanama with the deck gun in the Strait of Malacca . Tantalus torpedoed on May 3, 1944 south of Port Blair at 11 ° 0 '  N , 92 ° 0'  O successful Japanese military transport Amagi Maru , laid on June 2, 1944 sea mines in the Strait of Malacca, sunken at June 10, 1944 at the same place 3 ° 5 ′  N , 99 ° 56 ′  E the Japanese military transporter Hiyoshi Maru (ex Dutch: Mandar ) and on August 31, 1944 a Siamese sailing ship with artillery.

HMS Tantalus handle on November 2, 1944 east of Singapore at 0 ° 48 '  N , 107 ° 43'  O Japanese freighter Hachijin Maru and Japanese U-Hunter Ch 1 with torpedoes. The freighter was sunk and the U-fighter damaged. On November 11, 1944, the Japanese coaster Palang Maru with the deck gun was sunk off the east coast of Malaysia .

On 30 January 1945, the British submarine sank in the Bangkastraße (between Bangka and Sumatra ) at 1 ° 26 '  S , 105 ° 1'  O the Japanese fishing vessel Taisei Maru No. 12 with the deck gun. Two days later, on February 1, 1945 in the southern part of were the South China Sea , a Japanese tugboat and three Light also sunk with on-board artillery.

HMS Tantalus survived the war and was demolished in Milford Haven in 1950 .

Commanders

• Lt. Hugh Stirling Mackenzie (April 2, 1943 - June 1945)
• Lt. Lawrence Hugh Oliphant (June 1945 - August 15, 1945)
• Lt. William Thomas John Fox (August 15, 1945 - October 1945)

Web links

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

• HMS Tantalus 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. ↑ ^{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 .
2. ↑ The uboat.net specifies the HMS Tantalus P318 as the shell number . Hutchinson specifies P318 ex P98 . Hutchinson's statement is contradictory as he gives the same numbers for HMS Trenchant .
3. ↑ Hugh Stirling Mackenzie on uboat.net (English)
4. ↑ Lawrence Hugh Oliphant in uboat.net (English)
5. ↑ William Thomas John Fox 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 , see also Tantalos .