HMS Triad (N53)

HMS Triad (N53)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Triton class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Vickers -Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	March 24, 1938
Launch :	May 5, 1939
Commissioning:	September 16, 1939
Whereabouts:	Sunk by an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean on October 15, 1940 .
Technical data (see Triton class )

HMS Triad (N53) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . The boat was used in World War II and was lost in the Mediterranean on October 15, 1940 .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

At the beginning of the war, the submarine was used in the North Sea just like its sister boats. During the German invasion of northern Europe succeeded on 11 April 1940, the first combat success than south of the Oslo fjord at 58 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 35'  O the German troop transport Ionia was torpedoed (3102 BRT) and sunk. On April 19, 1940, the boat attacked the German test boat Nautilus with four torpedoes south of the Oslofjord at 58 ° 18 ′  N , 10 ° 48 ′  E , the commander believing to have the speedboat escort ship Tsingtau in front of him. All four torpedoes missed their target.

On October 9, 1940, the Triad left their base on the besieged Mediterranean island of Malta for their last patrol. Six days later, she was torpedoed and sunk south of the Gulf of Taranto at 38 ° 16 '  N , 17 ° 37'  E by the Italian submarine Enrico Toti . There were no survivors.

Commanders

• According to Cdr. Ronald McClellan Powning Jonas (April 2, 1939 - February 27, 1940)
• According to Cdr. Eric Roland John Oddie (February 27, 1940 - August 15, 1940)
• According to Cdr. George Stevenson Salt (August 15, 1940 - † October 15, 1940)

See also

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

Web links

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

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

literature

• Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
• Robert Hutchinson: Fight under water - submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, 1st edition, 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. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/commanders/1866.html
3. ↑ http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/asa/ausgabe.php?where_value=574
4. ↑ Enrico Toti ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted 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 (engl.)  
5. ↑ Ronald McClellan Powning Jonas in uboat.net (engl.)
6. ↑ Eric Roland John Oddie on uboat.net (engl.)
7. ↑ George Stevenson Salt 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 .