HMS Traveller (N48)
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 HMS Traveller |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 17 January 1940 |
| Launched: | 27 August 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 10 April 1942 |
| Fate: | sunk 4 December 1942 |
| 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: | 61 |
| Armament: |
6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Traveller (N48) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Scotts, Greenock and launched in August 1941.
[edit] Career
Traveller spent most of her career serving in the Mediterranean. She was unsuccessful in most of her attacks, sinking the Italian merchant Albachiara, but launching failed attacks against the Italian merchant Ezilda Croce, the Italian 'small light cruiser' Cattaro (the former Yugoslavian Dalmacija), the Italian tanker Proserpina (the former French Beauce) and the Italian torpedo boats Castore and Ciclone. She also claimed to have attacked two so far unidentified submarines.[1]
Traveller left Malta on 28 November 1942 for a patrol in the Gulf of Taranto. She carried out reconnaissance of Taranto harbour for a Chariot human torpedo attack (Operation Portcullis). The submarine did not return from the operation and was reported overdue on 12 December. She probably struck an Italian mine on or about the 4th of December.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Traveller, 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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