HMS Trusty (N45)

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HMS Trusty (N45)
Royal Navy
26./27. March 1943 off Dundee: In the foreground HMS Sibyl (P217), to the left of the tower of the Sybil the HMS Trusty can be seen.
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Tempest class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : March 15, 1940
Launch : March 14, 1941
Commissioning: July 30, 1941
Whereabouts: Sold as scrap in January 1947.
Technical data
(see Tempest class )

HMS Trusty (N45) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II .

Mission history

see: History of the Tempest Class

The HMS Trusty was initially used in the Mediterranean , but could not achieve any combat success here. On December 4, 1941, the Trusty unsuccessfully attacked an Italian warship with torpedoes west of Zakynthos . It was probably the Orsa torpedo boat .

Shortly after the outbreak of the Pacific War , HMS Trusty relocated to Asia. On June 4, 1942, could Trusty in the Straits of Malacca at 7 ° 14 '  N , 98 ° 6'  O the Japanese freighter Toyohashi Maru torpedo (7031 BRT) and sink. The Trusty succeeded on 18 November 1942, Penang ( Malaya ) at 6 ° 21 '  N , 99 ° 5'  O the torpedoing and damaging the Japanese troops transporter Columbia Maru (5617 GRT).

The HMS Trusty survived the war. The submarine was sold in January 1947 as scrap and in July 1947 in Milford Haven ( Wales aborted).

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. William Donald Aelian King (March 15, 1941 – April / May 1942)
  • Lt. Edward Francis Balston (April / May 1942– October 10, 1943)
  • According to Cdr. John Robert Garstin Harvey (November 10, 1943– March 1, 1944)
  • Lt. Michael Frederic Roberts Ainslie (March 1, 1944 – April 1944)

Web links

Commons : Tempest class  - album containing pictures, 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 day . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see uboat.net .
  2. ↑ William Donald Aelian King in uboat.net (English)
  3. ↑ Edward Francis Balston on uboat.net (English)
  4. ↑ John Robert Garstin Harvey in uboat.net (English)
  5. ↑ Michael Frederic Roberts Ainslie 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 . Trusty means loyal or reliable .