Thistle Crest

Large Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
Triton Class



Pennant No.:
24.T Renumbered 1939.
24.N Renumbered 1940.
N.24

Laid Down:
7th December 1937
Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow

Commissioned:
4th July 1939
Cdr. R.W. Stirling-Hamilton.

Commander:
Oct. 1938 - Feb. 1940
Cdr. R.W. Stirling-Hamilton.
Feb. - Apr. 1940
Lt. Cdr. W. Haselfoot.

Complement:
56 Peacetime.
62 Wartime.
5 Officers and 51 Ratings Peacetime
6 Officers and 56 Ratings Wartime.

Service Career:
1939
5th Flotilla, Trials & Work Up
1939
2nd Flotilla, HMS Forth, Rosyth.
1940
2nd Flotilla, HMS Forth, Rosyth.

Fate:
Completed seven 'War Patrols', she was lost on her eighth patrol.

Involved in the Norwegian campaign of 1940.

Torpedoed by U4 whilst on the surface 10th April 1940 - no survivors.