HMS Tuna (N94)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Tuna (N94)
Royal Navy
HMS Tuna on August 26, 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Triton class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Scott's Shipbuilding ( Greenock )
Keel laying : June 13, 1938
Launch : May 10, 1940
Commissioning: August 1, 1940
Whereabouts: Sold for scrapping on December 19, 1945.
Technical data
(see Triton class )

HMS Tuna (N94) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

The submarine was mainly used in the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay .

In September 1940 the Tuna sank the German pinch of Tirranna in the Bay of Biscay . The Norwegian ship was picked up on June 10, 1940 by the German merchant sturgeon cruiser Atlantis 675 nautical miles east-southeast of Mauritius . The Tirranna had 274 prisoners from the Atlantis on board. 87 of the castaways could not be rescued. 71 Indians, nine British and six Norwegians died; only one non-commissioned officer from the German prize garrison was among the victims.

Also in September 1940, the German catapult ship Ostmark was torpedoed and sunk.

On December 7, 1942, HMS Tuna put a British command ashore in the Gironde estuary . During the special operation known as Operation Frankton , several German ships were badly damaged by sticky mines in shallow water. Only two of the twelve commandos that landed survived the operation.

On April 14, 1943, the Tuna sank the German Type VII C submarine U 644 .

HMS Tuna survived the war, was sold for scrapping on December 19, 1945 and demolished in Briton Ferry, Wales in July 1946 .

Commanders

  • According to Cdr. Maurice Kildare Cavenagh-Mainwaring (July 4, 1940 - November 3, 1941)
  • Lt. Michael Beauchamp St. John (November 3, 1941 - April 21, 1942)
  • Lt. Richard Prendergast Raikes (August 24, 1942 - March 17, 1943)
  • Lt. Desmond Samuel Royst Martin (March 17, 1943 - October 8, 1943)
  • According to Cdr. John Robert Garstin Harvey (October 8, 1943 - November 10, 1943)
  • Lt. James Hugh Miller Somerville (November 10, 1943 - February 15, 1944)
  • According to Cdr. Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill (February 15, 1944 - November 21, 1944)
  • According to Cdr. Edward Dudley Norman (November 21, 1944 - June 1, 1945)
  • According to Cdr. Robert Love Alexander (June 1, 1945 - October 1945)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
September 22, 1940 HMS Tuna torpedoed and sank off the Gironde (France) 15 nautical miles southwest of Soulac-sur-Mer at 45 ° 19 ′  N , 1 ° 20 ′  W the pinch of Tirranna (7230 GRT).
September 24, 1940 HMS Tuna torpedoes and sinks the German catapult ship Ostmark (1281 GRT) 35 nautical miles southwest of Saint-Nazaire at 47 ° 1 ′  N , 3 ° 2 ′  W.
December 18, 1940 HMS Tuna unsuccessfully attacks the Italian submarine Brin west of the Gironde with torpedoes and on-board artillery. The following night the French tug Chassiron (172 GRT) with the deck gun was sunk west-southwest of the Gironde .
December 7, 1942 HMS Tuna , a British special forces unit, lands in the Gironde estuary. The damaged ships include the blockade breakers Tannenfels , Dresden and Portland and the French Alabama of the CGT.
April 7, 1943 HMS Tuna torpedoes and sunk northwest of Narvik at 69 ° 38 '  N , 5 ° 40'  W the German submarine U 644 .

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: FIGHT UNDER WATER - Submarines from 1776 to the present day. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .

Web links

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

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 c d Sea War in September 1940 at www.wlb-stuttgart.de
  3. ↑ a b Tirranna at www.warsailors.com/homefleet (English)
  4. ↑ a b Naval War in June 1940 at www.wlb-stuttgart.de
  5. ↑ a b Luftwaffe Catapult vessels / Seaplane tenders
  6. ^ Telegraph, April 1, 2011
  7. ↑ a b www.royalmarinesregimental.co.uk
  8. ↑ a b Naval War in April 1943 at www.wlb-stuttgart.de
  9. ↑ Maurice Kildare Cavenagh-Mainwaring in uboat.net (English)
  10. ↑ Michael Beauchamp St. John on uboat.net (English)
  11. ↑ Richard Prendergast Raikes on uboat.net (English)
  12. ↑ Desmond Samuel Royst Martin in uboat.net (English)
  13. ↑ John Robert Garstin Harvey in uboat.net (English)
  14. ↑ James Hugh Miller Somerville on uboat.net (English)
  15. ↑ Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill on uboat.net (English)
  16. ↑ Edward Dudley Norman in uboat.net (English)
  17. ↑ Robert Love Alexander on uboat.net (English)
  18. ↑ Naval War in December 1940 at www.wlb-stuttgart.de
  19. ↑ Report and pictures of the Tannenfels

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 . Tuna means tuna .