HMS Triumph (N18)

HMS Triumph (N18)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Triton class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	March 19, 1937
Launch :	February 16, 1938
Commissioning:	May 2, 1939
Whereabouts:	Missed in the Aegean since January 14, 1942 .
Technical data (see Triton class )

HMS Triumph (N18) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . The boat was used in World War II and was lost in the Mediterranean in 1942 .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

North Sea

At the very beginning of their combat history of the escaped Triumph a total loss only slightly when she in on December 26, 1939 North Sea at 56 ° 44 '  N , 5 ° 0'  O to a German sea mine ran. The outer shell was torn open at the bow over a length of 6 meters and the pressure hull was also damaged. Since the torpedoes did not explode in the bow torpedo room, the boat was able to return to Chatham under escort , where it was repaired until September 27, 1940.

Mediterranean Sea

From the beginning of 1941, HMS Triumph operated in the Mediterranean . In the summer and autumn of that year six freighters, three auxiliary patrol boats , a submarine and several smaller units were sunk. A tanker , an auxiliary cruiser and other transport ships were also damaged. On August 26, 1941, the submarine attacked the Italian heavy cruiser Bolzano ( Trento class ) north of Messina with two torpedoes, without success.

loss

HMS Triumph left the base in Alexandria in Egypt on December 26, 1941 with the aim of disembarking a special unit near the Greek capital Athens and then patrolling the Aegean Sea . The Triumph reported the landing of the units on December 30, 1941. Since then there have been no reports of the submarine. Presumably it ran into an Italian sea mine near the Greek island of Milos . The Royal Navy reported the boat missing on January 14, 1942. There were no survivors.

Commanders

• According to Cdr. John Wentworth McCoy (February 9, 1938 -?)
• According to Cdr. Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods (August 15, 1940 - November 1941)
• Lt. John Symons Huddart (November 1941 - † January 14, 1942)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
March 5, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoes and sunk off Cape dell 'Armi ( Calabria , Italy) at 37 ° 54'  N , 15 ° 46 '  O Italian freighter Marzamemi (958 BRT) and Colomba Lofaro (897 BRT).
May 3, 1941	HMS Triumph sank the Italian auxiliary patrol boat V136 / Tugnin F. (425 GRT) with the on-board gun 10 nautical miles west of Marsa el Brega (Libya ).
May 30, 1941	HMS Triumph damaged the Italian auxiliary cruiser Ramb III (3667 GRT) with torpedoes off Benghazi .
June 5, 1941	HMS Triumph sunk in the Great Syrte at 31 ° 39 '  N , 15 ° 39'  O Italian auxiliary patrol boats Valoroso (340 BRT), V 190 / Frieda (246 BRT) and V 137 / Trio Frassinetti (244 BRT) with the deck gun.
June 27, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoes and sunk near Marsa Matruh (Egypt) at 32 ° 5 '  N , 28 ° 47'  O the Italian submarine salpa (611 ts).
July 6, 1941	HMS Triumph sinks the Italian freighter Ninfea (607 GRT) and the Italian tug Dante de Lutti (266 GRT) in a lengthy artillery duel . The submarine is also damaged in the battle and has to return to base.
September 18, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoed and damaged the Italian tanker Ardor (8960 GRT) off Capo Colonna (Calabria ). The damaged ship is towed to Crotone .
September 23, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoed and sank the German freighter Luvsee (2373 GRT) northeast of Šibenik .
September 24, 1941	HMS Triumph damages the Italian freighter Poseidone and the freighter Sidamo (2384 GRT) at Ortona .
October 23, 1941	HMS Triumph sinks the Greek sailing ships Panagiotis and Aghia Paraskeva with the deck gun in the Gulf of Petalii (Greece) .
October 25, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoes and sunk in Saronic three nautical miles north-west of the Greek island Patroklou at 37 ° 41 '  N , 23 ° 53'  O Italian freighter Monro (6703 BRT).
November 24, 1941	HMS Triumph torpedoed and sunk the Italian tug Hercules (632 GRT) in the port of Heraklion . On the same day, the German freighter Norburg (2392 GRT) is damaged.

See also

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

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

Web links

Commons : Triton class  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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

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. ↑ John Wentworth McCoy in uboat.net (English)
3. ↑ Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods in uboat.net (English)
4. ↑ John Symons Huddart in uboat.net (English)
5. ↑ Salpa ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2003 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) 

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 .