Telemachus (P 321)

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Telemachus (P 321)

Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	T 3
Fate:	Scrapped 25th August 1961 at Charlestown.

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Commanders

1943:	Lieutenant Commander	William Donald Aelian King	DSO
1945:	Lieutenant	Paul Charles Chapman	DSO DSC MID
1947:	Acting Lieutenant Commander	Huston Roe Murray	MID
1952:	Lieutenant Commander	Stephen Jenner
1955:	Lieutenant Commander	John Evelyn Moore
1956:	Lieutenant Commander	Peter Ross Hay

1944: Trincomalee, Ceylon.
1944: Fremantle, Australia

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Memories of Donald (Buckwheat) Harris

While reading an old edition of the Submariners News I noticed a name in the Xmas greetings column that brought back a few memories of my time in the 4th squadron based at Hunters bay in Sydney. That name was Buckwheat Harris or to give him his proper name Donald John Nathaniel Harris (according to buckwheat).

Events

25-08-1942	Laid Down

19-06-1943	Launched

25-10-1943	Completed

17-07-1944	HMS Telemachus Sank a Japanese Kaigun Class submarine 17 July 1944 close to Singapore

25-08-1961	Scrapped at Charlestown.

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Length overall	273 ft 6 inch
Beam	26 ft 6 inch
Depth	14 ft 3 inch
Displacement	1422 tons (surface)
	1571 tons (submerged)
Diving Depth	(i) 300 ft
Speed	Surface 15.25 knots (design)
	Surface 15.25 knots (service)
	Submerged 9 knots (design)
	Submerged 8.75 knots (service)
No. of shafts	2
Endurance	Surface: 7500 miles at 15.25 knots (design)
	(ii) Surface: 8000 miles at 10 knots (service)
	Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (design)
	Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (service)
Armament	8 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external)
	2 x 21 inch amidship tubes
	(17 torpedoes carried)
	1 x 4 inch gun
	1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon
	3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns
Complement	(peacetime) 5 Officers and 51 Ratings
	(wartime) 6 Officers and 56 Ratings
Notes	(i) This was increased to 350 feet in the all-welded boats.
	(ii) T Class submarines serving in the Far East were modified to carry extra fuel, which increased endurance to 11 000 miles at 10 knots.

Class:	1914 - 1921: G Class
Built By:	Armstrong Whitworth (Tyne)
Build Group:	G
Fate:
In 1918 HMS G7 (Lt Charles A C Russell RN) operated out of Blyth patrolling the North Sea. Contact was lost on the 23rd October and she was declared lost on 1st November, the last British submarine lost in WW1

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