Type:

S Class

Third Group 1940 Programme.

Pennant No.:

ex P.221 - Renumbered July 1941.
ex P.71 - Renamed January 1943.

Laid Down:

13th November 1940.

Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.

Commissioned:

10th July 1942.

Lt. Ainslie DSC.

Commander:

 Apr. 1942 - Mar. 1944

Lt. M.F.R. Ainslie DSC.

Mar. 1944

Lt. D. Swanston DSC*.

May 1945

T/Lt. A.W. Jorgenson RCNVR.

Complement:

48

5 Officers and 43 Ratings.

Service Career:

1942

3rd Flotilla, HMS Forth, Holy Loch.

1943

8th Flotilla, HMS Maidstone, Algiers.

1943

1st Flotilla, HMS Medway II, Beirut.

1944

3rd Flotilla, HMS Forth, Holy Loch.

1944 - 1945

2nd Flotilla, HMS Wolfe, Trincomalee.

Fate:

Completed Fifteen 'War Patrols'.

Sank the submarine Velella on 7th September 1943.
She was damaged beyond repair on 3rd January 1945.

Damaged by Japanese gunfire and aircraft bombs off the Andaman Islands  3rd January 1945 and written off as a constructive total loss.
Scrapped 14th July 1946.

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