HMS Tempest (N86)

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HMS Tempest (N86)
Royal Navy
HMS Tempest 1941
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Tempest class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : January 6, 1940
Launch : June 10, 1941
Commissioning: December 6, 1941
Whereabouts: Sunk by an Italian torpedo boat on February 13, 1942.
Technical data
(see Tempest class )

HMS Tempest (N86) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II . The warship was lost in 1942 after only three months of service.

Mission history

see: History of the Tempest Class

The Tempest left their base in Malta on February 10, 1943 to take on a patrol in the Gulf of Taranto . In the early morning of February 13, 1943, the submarine was discovered on the surface 30 nautical miles northeast of Crotone at 39 ° 15 '  N , 17 ° 45'  E by the Italian torpedo boat Circe . The Tempest appeared immediately and was intensively with water bombs attacked. After several hours of hunting, the now damaged submarine had to return to the surface, where it was fired at by the torpedo boat with on-board artillery and suffered further damage. The crew then left their submarine and left sharp explosive charges on board, but they failed. The British sailors were taken over by the torpedo boat. The Italians could not board the submarine due to the prevailing heavy seas, so fire was reopened to sink the drifting unmanned wreck. Since this did not succeed, the Italians tried again to take over the Tempest . Two sailors were able to reach the deck of the submarine and fasten a rope. When the torpedo boat approached the submarine to pick up the rope, HMS Tempest surprisingly sank over the stern within a very short time.

Commander of the Tempest was during the entire period of service (October 1941 - February 13, 1942) Lt.Cdr. William Alexander Keith Napier Cavaye.

Web links

Commons : Tempest class  - album containing pictures, 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
  • Peter Padfield: The submarine war 1939-1945 , Ullstein Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-548-24766-0

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. ↑ William Alexander Keith Napier Cavaye 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 . Tempest means storm .