P615
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Turkish |
| Fate: | Sunk by U123 on 18th April 1943 off Liberia. |
P615
Roll of Honour
| Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
| Bigrove, Edward | Telegraphist | C/SSX 34116 | 20 | |
| Burnell, Denis | Lieutenant (RNR) | 25 | ||
| Cunningham, William Nelson | Stoker Petty Officer | C/KX 85143 | 28 | |
| Daft, Arthur Joseph | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 117455 | 29 | |
| Davies, Austin Francis | Lieutenant | 22 | ||
| Dinsdale, George Albert | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 80085 | 32 | |
| Dyson, Arthur | Stoker Petty Officer | P/KX 86406 | 26 | |
| Edwards, Leonard George | Able Seaman | P/JX 326027 | 21 | |
| Fairclough, John Roger | Stoker Petty Officer | D/K 66502 | DSM | 41 |
| Gauntley, Stanley | Able Seaman | P/JX 275103 | 22 | |
| Goulstone, Francis Gerald | Chief Petty Officer | D/JX 135862 | MID | 28 |
| Griffiths, Samuel James | Stoker | D/SKX 1241 | 20 | |
| Hayes, Frederick George | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 122500 | 21 | |
| Hubbard, Charles Clarence | Petty Officer | C/JX 125311 | 32 | |
| James, Walter Roland Frederick | Petty Officer | D/JX 128319 | MID | 32 |
| Kent-Smith, Percy James | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 77470 | 23 | |
| Lambert, Charles Walderne St Clair | Lieutenant | DSC* | 24 | |
| Lowery, Alfred | Able Seaman | D/JX 286222 | 22 | |
| Mackie, James Andrew | Petty Officer | P/JX 136224 | 27 | |
| McClinton, Robert Walter | Leading Telegraphist | D/JX 135912 | 28 | |
| McGuigan, Eric Joseph | Able Seaman | D/JX 268041 | 22 | |
| McLaughlan, James | Leading Seaman (RNR) | P/K 19594 | 28 | |
| Nicholl, Desmond Earle | Sub Lieutenant (RNVR) | 22 | ||
| O'Hare, John | Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class | P/MX 51370 | 30 | |
| Ollerenshaw, Daniel | Able Seaman | D/JX 156176 | 21 | |
| Oxley, John Henry | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 77968 | 33 | |
| Pepper, William Richard | Petty Officer Telegraphist | C/JX 141901 | 24 | |
| Price, Harold Reece | Leading Telegraphist | D/SSX 14092 | 29 | |
| Relly, Maxwell Spicer | Leading Seaman | P/JX 139533 | 26 | |
| Schuil, Alphonse Emiel | Lieutenant (RNVR) | 31 | ||
| Shaw, Gerald Charles Francis | Able Seaman | D/SSX 36071 | 20 | |
| Sinclair, John | Able Seaman | P/JX 275083 | 22 | |
| Slater, William | Stoker Petty Officer | P/KX 82883 | 32 | |
| Smith, Arthur Charles | Leading Seaman | P/JX 167433 | DSM | 24 |
| South, Arthur | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 126811 | 20 | |
| Starrett, Edward Thomas | Chief Engine Room Artificer | D/MX 48345 | MID | 33 |
| Sumby, George William | Petty Officer | D/J 112139 | 33 | |
| Swann, Ernest Edward | Able Seaman | C/SSX 18084 | 23 | |
| Taylor, Albert Edward | Petty Officer Cook | P/M 38140 | DSM | 36 |
| Tovey, Clifford Charles | Able Seaman | D/JX 192043 | 21 | |
| Vail, Albert Henry | Signalman | D/SSX 32984 | 20 | |
| Wallace, James | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 130392 | 20 | |
| Watkins, William | Leading Stoker | C/K 62522 | 40 | |
| Weeks, Henry Herbert | Sub Lieutenant (RNR) | 21 | ||
Events
| 24-05-1939 : | Laid Down |
| 01-11-1940 : | Launched |
| 18-04-1943 : | HMS P615 left Freetown under escort by minesweeper HMS MMS-107 on passage to the South Atlantic Command to provide ASW escort training. During the night they lost contact but found each other the next morning. U-123 spotted both vessels at 0344 and missed them with two spreads of two torpedoes at 0534 & 0647, one of the torpedo tracks was sighted by the escort, but was put down to a porpoise. At 1101, a merchant vessel was sighted and at 1153 the U-boat fired one torpedo at the minesweeper on station about 300 yards off the submarines starboard quarter, but missed. At 1154, a spread of two torpedoes was fired at the submarine, which was hit by one of them on the starboard side, exploded and sank immediately about 100 miles SW of Freetown. U-123 then torpedoed at 1239 hours Empire Bruce and left the area after sinking her with two coup de grace. The minesweeper picked up the survivors from the merchantman and returned to Freetown |
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