HMS Tetrarch (N77)

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HMS Tetrarch (N77)
Royal Navy
HMS Tetrarch 1940
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Triton class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers -Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : August 24, 1938
Launch : November 14, 1939
Commissioning: February 15, 1940
Whereabouts: Missed in the Mediterranean since November 1941 .
Technical data
(see Triton class )

HMS Tetrarch (N77) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . The boat was used in World War II and was lost in the Mediterranean in 1941 .

Mission history

see also: History of the Triton class

The first combat missions of the new building, which was put into service in February 1940, led off the Norwegian coast. On April 9, 1940, Germany began an invasion of Denmark and Norway with the Weser Exercise Company . The Tetrarch was also involved in the sea ​​battles, which were costly for both sides . The submarine achieved its first combat success on April 23, 1940, when the German submarine UJ B (formerly Treff V ) was sunk in the Skagerrak . In the following two months, a Danish fishing boat was boarded, another sunk and a German freighter torpedoed.

After the missions off Norway and Denmark, the submarine was ordered into the Mediterranean. The main base was on the island of Malta, besieged by the Axis . In action against the Mediterranean supply lines of Italy and Germany to North Africa and the Greek islands, the Tetrarch was able to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

On October 26, 1941, HMS Tetrarch left the port of Valletta (Malta). The submarine was to return home for overhaul via a stopover in Gibraltar . Presumably the submarine ran into a sea ​​mine in the Strait of Sicily . There were no survivors. HMS Tetrarch was officially declared missing on November 2, 1941.

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. Ronald George Mills (November 30, 1939– November 15, 1940)
  • According to Cdr. Richard Micaiah Towgood Peacock (November 15, 1940– July 5, 1941)
  • According to Cdr. George Henry Greenway (July 5, 1941 – approx. † November 2, 1941)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
April 23, 1940 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk in the Skagerrak at 58 ° 21 '  N , 10 ° 24'  O German U-Hunter UJ B / fail V (330 BRT).
May 20, 1940 HMS Tetrarch hits the Danish fishing vessel Emmanuel in the North Sea at 56 ° 59 '  N , 6 ° 58'  E. The prize is brought to Leith . On the same day, at 56 ° 55 '  N , 6 ° 50'  O the Danish fish vehicle Terieven sunk with detonators.
June 16, 1940 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk southwest of Lista (Norway) at 58 ° 12 '  N , 6 ° 13'  O the German replenishment oiler Samland (5978 BRT).
November 4th 1940 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk before Benghazi (Libya) at 31 ° 35 '  N , 19 ° 20'  O Italian freighter Snia Amba (2532 BRT).
April 12, 1941 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk 30 nautical miles north-west of Tripoli at 33 ° 29 '  N , 13 ° 1'  O Italian tanker Persiano (2474 BRT).
May 18, 1941 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk before Bengasi at 31 ° 55 '  N , 19 ° 55'  O Italian freighter Giovinezza (2362 BRT).
July 27, 1941 HMS Tetrarch sank the Italian sailing ship Nicita with the deck gun five nautical miles south of the Greek island of Kos .
August 23, 1941 HMS Tetrarch sank the Italian sailing ships V 72 / Fratelli Garre (413 GRT) and V 113 / Francesco Garre (399 GRT) with the on-board gun in the Große Syrte .
September 26, 1941 HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sunk in the Aegean 18 nautical miles south of the Greek island Milos at 36 ° 21 '  N , 24 ° 23'  O Italian freighter Citta di Bastia (2499 BRT).
September 27, 1941 HMS Tetrarch sinks the Greek sailing ship Panagiotis Kramottos (120 GRT) with the deck gun southwest of Milos .
September 28, 1941 HMS Tetrarch attacks the German freighter Yalova (3751 GRT) with torpedoes in the Aegean Sea south of the Greek island of Agios Giorgios and damages the ship so badly that it has to be put aground.

See also

Web links

Commons : HMS Tetrarch  - 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. ↑ Ronald George Mills in uboat.net (engl.)
  3. ↑ Richard Micaiah Towgood Peacock in uboat.net (Engl.)
  4. ↑ George Henry Greenway in 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 .