Large Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
T Class

Third Group

Pennant No.:
P.352 - Renamed April 1943.

Laid Down:
22nd October 1942
H.M. Dockyard Devonport.

Commissioned:
9th September 1945
Lt. M.C. St. John.

Commander:
Aug. 1944 - Apr. 1946
Lt. M.C. St. John.
(Lt. Cdr. Apr. 1945).
Apr. 1946
Lt. P.S. Beale.
Apr. 1948
Lt. B. Collins.
Aug. 1949 - May 1950
Lt. J.E. Moore.
Jan. 1951
Lt. C.M. Harwood.
Aug. 1952
Cdr. J.O. Coote.
Oct. 1955 - Jan. 1956
Lt. Cdr. C.B. Mills.
June 1959
Lt. Cdr. R.G. Higgins.
May 1964
Lt. Cdr. M.H. Everett.

Complement:
63-68
5 Officers and 58 Ratings (normally).

Service Career:
1948 - 1949
5th Flotilla/Sqdn. Gosport.
1949 - 1951
2nd Flotilla/Sqdn. HMS Maidstone, Portland.
1951 - 1953
Chatham for Conversion.
1953 - 1954
1st Flotilla/Sqdn. Malta.
1957 - 1960
3rd Sqdn, Rothesay/Faslane.
1960 - 1961
1st Sqdn., Malta.
1962 1965
1st Sqdn., Gosport.
Fate:
Completed one War Patrol, was recalled during her second patrol.

Transferred to Israeli Navy October 1967 and renamed Dakar.  She was lost enroute to Israel and her wreckage was not found until 1999 between Cyprus and Crete..