HMS Truant (N68)

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HMS Truant (N68)
Royal Navy
HMS Truant
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: October 31, 1939
Whereabouts: Sold for scrapping on December 19, 1945.
Technical data
(see Triton class )

HMS Truant (N68) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

Atlantic and North Sea

At the beginning of the war, the submarine was used off the Danish and Norwegian coasts and achieved the first combat success of all T-class submarines on March 25, 1940 with the sinking of the German cargo steamer Edmund Hugo Stinnes 4 .

At the beginning of April 1940, the Truant was used to repel the German invasion in Scandinavia . On the evening of April 9, 1940, the Truant torpedoed the German light cruiser Karlsruhe in the Skagerrak . The cruiser was so badly damaged that it had to be abandoned three hours later and sunk with two torpedoes by the German torpedo boat Greif .

On May 23, 1940, the submarine unsuccessfully attacked the supposedly German freighter Alster off the Norwegian coast with two torpedoes. Since the former German ship was now in British hands, the unsuccessful attack turned out to be a stroke of luck. The Alster had already been attacked on April 10, 1940 by the British destroyer HMS Icarus in the Vestfjord , but the commander of the Truant was not informed of the takeover.

On September 3, 1940, the Truant, northwest of Cape Finisterre at position 46 ° 30 ′  N , 11 ° 30 ′  W, intercepted the German pinch of Tropic Sea . The Tropic Sea was originally a Norwegian ship. She was captured on June 18, 1940 by the German merchant sturgeon Orion in the South Pacific and ran to France with a German prize crew. In view of the British submarine, the cargo ship was self- sunk by its German prize squad .

Mediterranean Sea

Between the late summer of 1940 and the end of 1941 the Truant was used in the Mediterranean . Between September and December 1941, the Truant sank the Italian freighters Providenza , Sebastiano Bianchi , Multedo and Benghazi , the Italian tankers Bonzo and Meteor , the German freighter Virginia S. and the Italian auxiliary U-fighter V 62 / Vanna . The Italian torpedo boat Alcione was so badly damaged by torpedoes that it had to be abandoned afterwards. The Italian tanker Prometeo was also damaged.

South East Asia

After Japan expanded the Pacific War in December 1941 and attacked the Western Allies , the Truant moved to East Asia. In February 1942, the Truant was used in the sea ​​battle in the Strait of Badung .

During the sea battle, the British submarine attacked the Japanese light cruiser Nagara with six torpedoes off Bali on February 19, 1942 .

In April and July 1942, the Truant sank the Japanese transport ships Yae Maru , Shunsei Maru and Tamon Maru No. in the Strait of Malacca . 1 .

Whereabouts

The Truant was sold for scrapping on December 19, 1945. The submarine sank on December 9, 1946 while being transported to the demolition yard.

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. Robert Witherington Peers (July 17, 1939 - February 11, 1940)
  • According to Cdr. Christopher Haynes Hutchinson (February 11, 1940 - April 28, 1940)
  • According to Cdr. Hugh Alfred Vernon Haggard (April 28, 1940 - March 22, 1943)
  • According to Cdr. Jack Gethin Hopkins (March 22, 1943 - November 25, 1943)
  • Lt. Edmund Charles Croswell (November 25, 1943 - November 22, 1944)
  • Lt. Charles Alexander Jacomb Nicoll (November 22, 1944 - February 6, 1945)
  • According to Cdr. Russell Stanhope Brookes (February 6, 1945 - October 1945)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
March 25, 1940 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk before Jutland at 56 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 4'  O German freighter Edmund Stinnes 4 (2189 BRT).
April 9, 1940 HMS Truant torpedoes and damaged before Kristiansand at 57 ° 55 '  N , 8 ° 14'  O German light cruiser Karlsruhe (6750 ts). The heavily damaged warship is sunk by the German torpedo boat Greif three hours after the attack .
September 3, 1940 HMS Truant intercepts the German pinch of Tropic Sea (5781 GRT).
September 22, 1940 HMS Truant torpedoed and sank the Italian cargo ship Providenza (8459 GRT) four nautical miles southeast of Ischia .
December 13, 1940 HMS Truant torpedoed and sunk the Italian cargo ship Sebastiano Bianchi (1546 GRT) south of Calabria at 37 ° 58 ′  N , 16 ° 15 ′  E.
December 16, 1940 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk east of Punta Stilo at 38 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 44'  O Italian tanker Bonzo (8177 BRT).
February 3, 1941 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk northwest of Bengasi at 32 ° 18 '  N , 19 ° 51'  O Italian cargo ship Multedo (1143 BRT).
April 17, 1941 HMS Truant sinks the Italian auxiliary submarine fighter V 62 / Vanna with the deck gun off Apollonia .
April 21, 1941 HMS Truant damaged the Italian tanker Prometeo (1080 GRT) with the deck gun off Tripoli .
May 6, 1941 HMS Truant torpedoed and sank three nautical miles southeast of the lighthouse of Cavoli ( Sardinia ) the Italian cargo and passenger ship Benghazi (built in 1912, 1716 GRT).
October 23, 1941 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk in the street of Otranto at 39 ° 52 '  N , 19 ° 0'  O the German cargo ship Virginia S. (3885 BRT). The Italian freighter Arborea (4959 GRT) attacked in the same attack was missed.
October 31, 1941 HMS Truant torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Meteor (1685 GRT) two nautical miles southeast of Punta Penne ( Ortona ).
December 11, 1941 HMS Truant engages north of Crete at 35 ° 29 '  N , 24 ° 11'  O Italian Torpedoboot Alcione with torpedoes. The Alcione is badly damaged, aground and later declared a total loss.
April 1, 1942 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk in the Malay road at 5 ° 42 '  N , 98 ° 57'  O Japanese cargo ships Yae Maru (6780 BRT) and Shunsei Maru (4939 BRT).
July 3, 1942 HMS Truant torpedoes and sunk in the Malay road at 5 ° 42 '  N , 98 ° 57'  O Japanese military transport Tamon Maru No. 1 (3019 GRT).

See also

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

Web links

Commons : HMS Truant (N68)  - 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. ↑ a b The sources for the sinking of the EH Stinnes 4 are very contradictory: uboat.net claims that the steamer was sunk by HMS Truant on March 25, 1940 . www.wlb-stuttgart.de also mentions HMS Truant , but gives the date March 23, 1940 and as the commander of the submarine Lt.Cdr. Seale at. According to uboat.net, Seale was the commander of HMS Trident at this time . www.poseidon-schiffahrts-archiv.eu does not give an exact date, but assigns the sinking of the Trident . 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. states March 24, 1940 as the date and HMS Trident as the submarine . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.cogeco.ca
  3. ↑ a b Tropic Sea at www.warsailors.com/homefleet (English)
  4. ↑ Nagara on www.combinedfleet.com (English)
  5. ↑ Robert Witherington Peers in uboat.net (engl.)
  6. ↑ Christopher Haynes Hutchinson in uboat.net (engl.)
  7. ^ Hugh Alfred Vernon Haggard in uboat.net (engl.)
  8. ↑ Jack Gethin Hopkins on uboat.net (engl.)
  9. ↑ Edmund Charles Croswell in uboat.net (engl.)
  10. ↑ Charles Alexander Jacomb Nicoll in uboat.net (engl.)
  11. ↑ Russell Stanhope Brookes 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 .