HMS Telemachus (P321)

HMS Telemachus (P321)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Taciturn class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	August 25, 1942
Launch :	June 19, 1943
Commissioning:	October 25, 1943
Whereabouts:	Scrapped in Charlestown in 1961.
Technical data (see Taciturn class )

HMS Telemachus (P321) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

The submarine was used in the Asian theater of war. On July 17, 1944, the Telemachus torpedoed and sank the Japanese submarine I-166 in the Strait of Malacca .

HMS Telemachus continued to be used by the Royal Navy after the war and was abandoned in Charlestown in August 1961.

Commanders

• Cdr. William Donald Aelian King (July 21, 1943 - August 20, 1945)
• Lt. Paul Charles Chapman (August 20, 1945 - October 1945)
• ...

See also

• HMS Telemachus (other British ships of the same name)

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 day . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .

Web links

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

• HMS Telemachus on uboat.net (English)
• British submarines in World War II

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uboat.net
2. ↑ I-166 on combinedfleet.com (English)
3. ↑ William Donald Aelian King in uboat.net (English)
4. ↑ Paul Charles Chapman 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 Telemachos .