Vox (P 73)
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | V2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in May 1946 at Cochin. |
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
Vox (P 73)
Commanders
| 1945: | Acting Lieutenant Commander | Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald | DSC MID |
Replaced the first Vox until she returned to RN service.
Roll of Honour |
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| Died: 11-07-1945 | |||||
| Munro, Hector Charles Seymour C/JX 394662 | |||||
| Able Seaman | Born: 07-08-1923 | Died: 11-07-1945 | Aged: 21 | ||
| from Fouis-Obsdale Scotland | |||||
| Hector Munro was the only son of the four children of Sir Arthur Herman Munro, 14th Baronet of Fouis-Obsdale, Scotland and Violet Beatrice Powles. He joined the Royal Navy, qualified as an Able Seaman (LTO) and served in Submarine HMS Vox. It is understood that he shot himself whilst HMS Vox was at Sydney, Australia 'whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed'. It is understood that had he lived he would have become Sir Hector Munro, 15th Baron Munro of Foulis-Obsdale. |
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Events
| 19-12-1942 | Laid Down |
| 28-09-1943 | Launched |
| 20-12-1943 | Completed |
| 03-07-1944 | HMS Vox sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire off Monemvassia, Greece. |
| 04-07-1944 | HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks a German sailing vessel off Santorini Island, Greece. |
| 10-07-1944 | HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks the German collier Anita between Andros and Tinos Islands, Greece. |
| 01-08-1944 | HMS Vox claims the sinking of a sailing vessel with gunfire south of Santorini Island, Greece. |
| 03-08-1944 | HMS Vox fires two torpedoes at an enemy auxiliary patrol vessel south of Santorini Island, Greece. Both torpedoes miss. |
| 04-08-1944 | HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks the German guardboat GK 61/P�trel 8 and the German sailing vessels Thetis and SA 83 north of Iraklion, Crete. |
| 09-08-1944 | HMS Vox claims to have damaged a small German merchant with gunfire off Candia, Crete, Greece. |
| 31-08-1944 | HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Crete. |
| 24-09-1944 | HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire about 15 nautical miles south of the Kassandra Peninsula, Greece. |
| 25-09-1944 | HMS Vox sinks the Greek sailing vessel Vol with gunfire about 12 nautical miles south-east of Ayiokambos, Larisis, Greece. |
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