HMS Thistle (N24)
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 HMS Thistle |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Laid down: | 7 December 1937 |
| Launched: | 25 October 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 4 July 1939 |
| Fate: | sunk 10 April 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | British T class submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons surfaced 1,575 tons submerged |
| Length: | 275 ft (84 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.1 m) |
| Draught: | 16.3 ft (5.0 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Two shafts |
| Speed: |
15.25 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement: | 59 |
| Armament: |
6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Thistle (N24) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in October 1939.
[edit] Career
Thistle had a short wartime career with the Royal Navy.[1]
Thistle was ordered to patrol off Stavanger, and to sink any enemy vessel that she might spot in the harbour, since the authorities believed that a German invasion of Norway was imminent. On 10 April Thistle signalled her intention to comply with this order and that she had two torpedoes remaining after an unsuccessful attack on a U-boat. With this in mind the Admiralty changed her orders to patrol off Skudenes. No further contact was made with Thistle. It was later discovered that U-4, the U-boat Thistle had previously attacked, had sighted the submarine on the surface and sunk her with torpedoes.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Thistle, Uboot.net
- ^ Submarine losses 1904 to present day, RN Submarine Museum, Gosport
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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