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Tradewind (P 329)

Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: T 3
Fate: Scrapped on 14th December 1955 at Charlestown

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HMS Tradewind. It is reported that a snort mast was eventually fitted for snorting noise trials. The upper image clearly has no snort mast while the lower image appears to have a folded down mast just aft of the fin.
HMS Tradewind. It is reported that a snort mast was eventually fitted for snorting noise trials. The upper image clearly has no snort mast while the lower image appears to have a folded down mast just aft of the fin.
Tradewind (P 329)
Tradewind (P 329)
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It is reported that she was modified to reduced submerged noise and used in ASW experimental work, running out of Portland. From photographs it can be seen the gun was removed and that a streamlined fairing was fitted around the gun access tower and the fore part of the connning tower, also it appears that all external torpedo tubes were removed. Whilst still basically a T boat in shape, she presents a smooth and clean appearance in the photographs.

Events

11-02-1942 Laid Down
18-10-1943 Completed
11-12-1943 Launched
16-09-1944 HMS Tradewind sinks two small Japanese vessels with scuttling charges off the Sunda Strait.
18-09-1944 HMS Tradewind torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Junyo Maru about 18 nautical miles south of Mukomuko, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. Unbeknown to the Commanding Officer of the submarine, the Japanese ship was carrying 4200 Javanese slave labourers and 2300 Allied prisoners from Batavia to Padang. 5620 lives were lost in the sinking.
30-10-1944 HMS Tradewind lays mines of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma.
08-11-1944 HMS Tradewind sinks five Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma.
10-11-1944 HMS Tradewind sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma.
20-04-1945 HMS Tradewind sinks a Japanese tug and two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam.
29-04-1945 HMS Tradewind torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant tanker Takasago Maru in the Gulf of Siam.
14-12-1955 Scrapped at Charlestown
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