HMS Turbulent (N98)

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HMS Turbulent (N98)
Royal Navy
HMS Turbulent (left)
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Tempest class ( T class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : March 15, 1940
Launch : May 12, 1941
Commissioning: December 2, 1941
Whereabouts: Missed in the Mediterranean since March 23, 1943.
Technical data
(see Tempest class )

HMS Turbulent (N98) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II . It has been missing in the Mediterranean since March 1943 .

Mission history

see: History of the Tempest Class

HMS Turbulent has been used successfully in the Mediterranean. Between March 1942 and February 1943 the boat sank six Greek and two Italian sailing ships , one German and eight Italian cargo ships , one Italian tanker , the auxiliary submarine supplier Benghazi of the German navy and a destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina . In addition, the Turbulent could seriously damage the Italian freighter Nino Bixio and an Italian tanker. The tragic torpedo attack on the Nino Bixio on August 17, 1942 cost the lives of over 300 Allied prisoners of war ; There were far more than 2000 prisoners of war on board the Italian transport ship at the time of the attack.

HMS Turbulent left the base in Algiers on February 23, 1943 to embark on another patrol. Presumably the boat was sunk on March 12, 1943 near La Maddalena by Italian torpedo boats with depth charges. Another possibility would be a mine hit . The boat was declared missing on March 23, 1943. There were no survivors.

Commander of the Turbulent was during the entire period of service in August 1941 to 23 March 1943 Lt.Cdr. (from December 31, 1941 Cdr. ) John Wallace Linton.

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
March 2, 1942 The Greek sailing ships Prodromos and Aghios Apostolos with their deck guns sunk in the Thermaic Gulf with turbulence .
March 3, 1942 Turbulent sunk in the Gulf of Thermaikos Greek sailing ships Aghios Yonizov , Evangelista and Aghios Dyonysios with the deck gun.
March 13, 1942 The Greek sailing ship Aghia Traio sank turbulently with on-board artillery off Mykonos .
April 7, 1942 Turbulent sunk off Kotor (Yugoslavia) the Italian freighter Rosa M. (271  GRT ) with the deck gun.
April 14, 1942 Turbulent sunk off Šibenik (Yugoslavia) the Italian sailing ship Franco (about 200 GRT) with the deck gun.
April 16, 1942 Turbulent torpedoes and sunk before Brindisi at 40 ° 50 '  N , 17 ° 37'  O Italian freighter Delia (5406 BRT).
May 14, 1942 The Italian sailing ship San Giusto (243 GRT) sinks turbulently with on-board artillery ten nautical miles from Apollonia (Greece ).
May 18, 1942 Turbulent torpedoes and sunk west of Benghazi at 32 ° 47 '  N , 18 ° 51'  O Italian freighter Bolsena (2384 BRT).
May 29, 1942 Turbulent torpedoes and sunk 70 nautical miles north-west of Benghazi at 33 ° 7 '  N , 19 ° 28'  O Italian destroyer Emanuelle Pessagno (1917 ts) and the Italian cargo ship Capo ARMA (3172 BRT).
June 24, 1942 Turbulent torpedoed and sunk five nautical miles west of Ghimenes in the Great Syrte the Italian freighter Regulus (1085 GRT).
August 6, 1942 see Note
August 17, 1942 Turbulent torpedoes and damaged twelve miles south west of Pylos at 36 ° 35 '  N , 21 ° 34'  O Italian transporter Nino Bixio (7137 BRT). There are over 2000 prisoners of war on board the Italian ship, of which over 300 perish.
August 19, 1942 Turbulent torpedoed and damaged the Italian tanker Pozarica (7751 GRT) off Andikythira .
October 8, 1942 Turbulent sunk off Ras al Hilal ( Libya ) the German freighter Kreta (1013 GRT) with the deck gun.
November 11, 1942 Turbulent torpedoed and sunk ten nautical miles northeast of Capo Carbonara ( Sardinia ) at 39 ° 10 '  N , 9 ° 39'  E, the German auxiliary supply ship Benghazi (1554 GRT).
December 29, 1942 Turbulent torpedoes and sunk east of Capo Ferrato (Sardinia) at 39 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 41'  O Italian freighter Marte (5290 BRT).
January 11, 1943 Turbulent torpedoed and sunk off Kotor Italian freighter Vittoria Beraldo (547 BRT).
February 1, 1943 Turbulent torpedoes and sunk off Cape San Vito ( Sicily ) at 38 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 50'  O Italian freighter Pozzuoli (5345 BRT).
February 5, 1943 Turbulent torpedoed and sunk the Italian tanker Utilitas (5342 GRT) off Palermo .

See also

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 . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, 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. ↑ a b Naval War in August 1942 at wlb-stuttgart.de.
  3. ↑ John Wallace Linton on 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 . Turbulent means stormy .
  2. ↑ The Italian destroyer Strale was definitely not destroyed by Turbulent . See the discussion in Forum Naval Archives from January 2016