| Built By: | Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool) |
| Build Group: | F27 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1948 to become the merchant Sinai. Scrapped in La Spezia, Italy on 5 January 1951 |
Former Hamburg-America liner Spreewald. Captured in September 1914 and converted by Clyde Shipbuilding Co. in 1916
She served the Tenth Submarine Flotilla in the Tees from 1916 to 1918.
Between the wars in the East Indies returning in 1939, was transferred to the Red Sea Force in 1940 and became the eastern Sea Fleet Submarine depot Ship in 1942 till 1945.
Damaged during a Japanese air attack on Colombo in April 1942 and later in the war she became a 'small ship' (up to destroyers) repair ship.
Sold in 1948 and became the merchant ship Sinai
Roll of Honour |
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| Syers, Charles Henry |
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| Stoker 1st Class | ||||||
| Reported to have been accidentally drowned. but the circumstances are not known. | ||||||
| Larkin, Eugene |
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| Stoker 1st Class | ||||||
| Born in Middlesborough in 1923 and he was the son of Thomas Henry Larkin (a blast furnace worker in a steel works) and Ellen Larkin. In September 1939 Eugene Larkin was listed as worker in the same steel works as his father. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 1st Class and in June 1945 he was serving in the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Lucia at Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He is reported to have died (accidentally drowned). |
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| 21-11-1907 | Launched |
| 08-12-1919 | Recommissioned |
| 04-09-1946 | Sold |
| 05-01-1951 | Scrapped in La Spezia, Italy |
Sports divers using new deep water techniques have reached the wreck of the Affray, the Royal Navy submarine in which 75 sailors lost their lives almost 50 years ago in a disaster that remains shrouded in mystery.
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Australian submariners have done extraordinary deeds in the First and Second World Wars and, more recently, the Cold War. In April 1915 the Australian submarine AE2 penetrated the Dardanelles Strait to 'run amuck', a historic feat that was a turning point in the Gallipoli campaign. Eventually captured, her crew spent three harrowing years as prisoners-of-war in Turkey.
In the Second World War Australian naval volunteers made their name serving in midget submarines, attacking Hitler’s mightiest battleship, the Tirpitz, in the icy waters of a Norwegian fjord. Later, they fought the Japanese in the South China Sea.
And in the last half of the twentieth century, RAN submarines played a vital role tracking the Soviet navy in the Pacific Ocean. One wrong move could have led to outright war. The risks they ran, the perils they met and the intelligence they gathered are still classified Top Secret.
Submarines and the sailors who serve in them have been and remain the tip of the spear of Australia's defences. For the first time, this is their unique story.
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Sports divers using new deep water techniques have reached the wreck of the Affray, the Royal Navy submarine in which 75 sailors lost their lives almost 50 years ago in a disaster that remains shrouded in mystery.
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other naval sailors. With stealth and daring they go deep and dark, alone and unseen, in often dangerous waters. They sometimes call themselves the Silent Service, with good reason.
Australian submariners have done extraordinary deeds in the First and Second World Wars and, more recently, the Cold War. In April 1915 the Australian submarine AE2 penetrated the Dardanelles Strait to 'run amuck', a historic feat that was a turning point in the Gallipoli campaign. Eventually captured, her crew spent three harrowing years as prisoners-of-war in Turkey.
In the Second World War Australian naval volunteers made their name serving in midget submarines, attacking Hitler’s mightiest battleship, the Tirpitz, in the icy waters of a Norwegian fjord. Later, they fought the Japanese in the South China Sea.
And in the last half of the twentieth century, RAN submarines played a vital role tracking the Soviet navy in the Pacific Ocean. One wrong move could have led to outright war. The risks they ran, the perils they met and the intelligence they gathered are still classified Top Secret.
Submarines and the sailors who serve in them have been and remain the tip of the spear of Australia's defences. For the first time, this is their unique story.
21 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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