| Built By: | Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | Alecto |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Faslane in 1949 |
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HMS. Alecto was completed to navy order as a depot ship.
Alecto commissioned at Sheerness and served through out WW1 with submarines at Yarmouth.
Served as a Submarine Depot Ship at Portsmouth in 1939 and 1940.
Transferred to boom defence duties in 1940.
Distribution of RN Submarines WW1
The British Fleet at the moment when war was declared possessed 72 submarine torpedo-boats built and 22 building. Some of these were, however, stationed at the oversea naval bases.
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| Admiralty Approved | 3rd May, 1920 | |
| Motto | Cave prolem. (Beware my brood.) | |
| Symbology | Alecto is one of the Furies of Greek mythology. | |
| Design Notes | Two gold vipers confronting each other with their tails involved on a green background. | |
| Displacement | 935 tons |
| Speed | 11 knots |
| Armament | None |
| Compliment | 76 |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sank after a collision in Loch Striven on the morning of 6th March 1945. XE-11 had been calibrating instruments in Loch Striven. The Submarine was changing depth and was in collision with a Ministry of War Transport Boom Defence Vessel (previously the Fleetwood Steam Trawler Norina which was laying buoys. The Commanding Officer and two ratings were lost. | |
Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd May, 1920 | |
| Motto | Cave prolem. (Beware my brood.) | |
| Symbology | Alecto is one of the Furies of Greek mythology. | |
| Design Notes | Two gold vipers confronting each other with their tails involved on a green background. | |
| Displacement | 935 tons |
| Speed | 11 knots |
| Armament | None |
| Compliment | 76 |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sank after a collision in Loch Striven on the morning of 6th March 1945. XE-11 had been calibrating instruments in Loch Striven. The Submarine was changing depth and was in collision with a Ministry of War Transport Boom Defence Vessel (previously the Fleetwood Steam Trawler Norina which was laying buoys. The Commanding Officer and two ratings were lost. | |
Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
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