HMS Traveler (N48)

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HMS Traveler (N48)
Royal Navy
HMS Traveler in April 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Tempest class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Scott's Shipbuilding ( Greenock )
Keel laying : January 17, 1940
Launch : August 27, 1941
Commissioning: April 10, 1942
Whereabouts: Missing in the Mediterranean since December 12, 1942.
Technical data
(see Tempest class )

HMS Traveler (N48) was a submarine of the T class of the British Royal Navy in World War II . The warship was lost in the Mediterranean in 1942 .

Mission history

The HMS Traveler was used in the Mediterranean. In its only eight months of active service, the submarine was only able to sink one enemy ship despite several attempted attacks.

On July 28, 1942, the Italian freighter Ezilda Croce was unsuccessfully attacked with torpedoes in the Strait of Otranto . Further unsuccessful torpedo attacks followed on July 30, 1942 off Pula against the Italian small cruiser Cattaro and on August 5, 1942 in the Adriatic Sea and on August 7, 1942 in the Strait of Otranto against unidentified submarines. The only combat success was achieved on September 5, 1942, when the Italian freighter Albachiara was torpedoed and sunk off the Libyan coast. On October 9, 1942, the British submarine attacked the Italian tanker Proserpina and the torpedo boats Castore and Ciclone west of Crete with three torpedoes, without success.

HMS Traveler left its base in Malta on November 28, 1942, under the leadership of the new commander Drummond St Clair-Ford, to patrol the Gulf of Taranto . She was also supposed to scout the port of Taranto in order to prepare the use of British manned torpedoes as part of " Operation Portcullis " .

The submarine was declared missing on December 12, 1942. The Traveler probably ran into an Italian sea ​​mine in the Gulf of Taranto on December 8, 1942 . There were no survivors.

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. George David Archibald Gregory (November 19, 1941 to April 21, 1942)
  • Lt. Michael Beauchamp St. John (April 21, 1942 to November 26, 1942)
  • According to Cdr. Drummond St. Clair-Ford (November 26, 1942 to December 12, 1942)

See also

Web links

Commons : HMS Traveler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 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. ↑ a b The uboat.net gives no concrete information about the loss and only mentions the loss declaration of December 12, 1942. Hutchinson gives December 8, 1942 as the time of the presumed mine hit. www.rnsubmus.co.uk , home.cogeco.ca ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2007 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. and the English language Wikipedia give December 4, 1942 as the date of the loss. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.cogeco.ca
  3. ↑ George David Archibald Gregory in uboat.net (English)
  4. ↑ Michael Beauchamp St. John on uboat.net (English)
  5. ↑ Drummond St. Clair-Ford 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 . Traveler means traveler , see also traveler .