HMS Thorn (N11)

HMS Thorn (N11)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Tempest class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying :	January 20, 1940
Launch :	March 18, 1941
Commissioning:	August 26, 1941
Whereabouts:	Sunk by an Italian torpedo boat on August 6, 1942.
Technical data (see Tempest class )

The HMS Thorn (N11) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II . The warship was lost in the Mediterranean in 1942 .

history

HMS Thorn was laid down at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on January 20, 1940 and launched on March 18, 1941. It was put into service on August 26, 1941. The submarine was used in the Mediterranean between late 1941 and summer 1942. The Thorn was able to achieve five sinkings during this time (two tankers, a transport ship, an auxiliary patrol boat, a submarine).

Thus, the recessed Thorn on 30 December 1941 by Torpedo five nautical miles west of Cape Dukato at 38 ° 35 '  N , 10 ° 27'  O the German tanker Campina with 3032 BRT.

On 28 January 1942, she was off Cape Planka ( Yugoslavia ) at 43 ° 30 '  N , 15 ° 55'  O sink another tanker with torpedoes, the Italian Ninuccia (4583 BRT).

Two days later, on 30 January 1942, the recessed Thorn near Premantura at 44 ° 45 '  N , 13 ° 56'  O the Italian submarine Medusa (599 ts).

The Italian auxiliary patrol boat AS 91 / Ottavia (259 GRT) was sunk off Kefalonia on March 5, 1942 with the deck gun . The Thorn's last combat success was on August 3, 1942, when the Italian transporter Monviso (5322 GRT) was torpedoed and sunk eight nautical miles from Sidi Sueicha ( Libya ).

On August 6, 1942, the British submarine attacked an Italian convoy 30 nautical miles southwest of the Greek island of Gavdos at 34 ° 25 '  N , 22 ° 36'  E. During the attack, the Thorn was discovered by an aircraft and shot at with on-board weapons. Then attacked the Italian torpedo boat Pegaso with seven depth charges , with the submarine likely sunk. After the last attack, the Italian escort vehicle lost sonar contact with its target.

HMS Thorn was officially declared missing on August 11th. There were no survivors.

Commander of Thorn was during the entire period of service (June 27, 1941 to August 6, 1942) Lt.Cdr. Robert Galliano Norfolk.

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 : Tempest class  - album containing pictures, videos and audio files

• HMS Thorn on uboat.net (engl.)
• Submarine losses of the Royal Navy (Engl.)
• British submarines during World War II (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information on launching comes from uboat.net .
2. ↑ Medusa ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.regiamarina.net. (English)  
3. ↑ Robert Galliano Norfolk 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 . Thorn means thorn , see also Thorn .