| Built By: | John Brown and Co (Cylde) |
| Build Group: | Montclare |
| Fate: | Broken up at Inverkeithing in 1958 |
The passenger ship Montclare of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, Montreal was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser being commissioned as such in October 1939
Sold to the Admiralty and converted to a submarine depot ship for the 3rd Submarine flotilla
1948: Captain (Subs), 3rd Sub Flotilla Feb
Decommissioned in 1954 and laid up at Portsmouth
January 1958 sold for scrap at Inverkeithing.
| 18-12-1921 | Launched |
| 02-06-1942 | Sold to the Admiralty for conversion to a submarine depot ship |
| 29-08-1944 | Recommissioned as depot ship |
| 28-01-1958 | Left Portsmouth under tow to be broken up at Inverkeithing |
| 03-02-1958 | Scrapping commenced |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 4th May, 1943 | |
| Motto | Mare Ditat Rosa. (The sea enriches, the rose decorates.) | |
| Symbology | The house flag of her original owners, the Canadian-Pacific Steamship Company. | |
| Design Notes | A roundel per fess white and red charged with a pale counterchanged maple leaf proper. Background barry wavy, of ten white and blue. | |
| Displacement | 21,550 tons when commissioned |
| Length | 549.5 ft (167.5 m) |
| Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Depth | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 2,524 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| 6 × steam turbines | |
| Built with double reduction gearing. 1929 single reduction gearing | |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Armament | 4 × 4-inch AA guns |
| 42 × 2-pounder AA guns | |
| 19 × 20 mm AA guns |
Oberon (N 21) |
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| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O1 |
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Fate: She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie |
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This book encapsulates the life of a wartime submarine. It includes photographs and diary entries, log extracts and sailing orders and exciting personal accounts. Written by a relative of one of the crew, it gives a different flavour to that found in the several excellent books already published by wartime submariners, and now mostly out of print. It is also a salute to all World War Two submariners.
HMS Trooper's operational life lasted from commissioning on 29th August 1942 to her loss in mid-October 1943. Brief indeed.
The author was two when his half-brother was killed, and had he not become curious to know more about him, Trooper's story would have remained untold.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 4th May, 1943 | |
| Motto | Mare Ditat Rosa. (The sea enriches, the rose decorates.) | |
| Symbology | The house flag of her original owners, the Canadian-Pacific Steamship Company. | |
| Design Notes | A roundel per fess white and red charged with a pale counterchanged maple leaf proper. Background barry wavy, of ten white and blue. | |
| Displacement | 21,550 tons when commissioned |
| Length | 549.5 ft (167.5 m) |
| Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Depth | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 2,524 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| 6 × steam turbines | |
| Built with double reduction gearing. 1929 single reduction gearing | |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Armament | 4 × 4-inch AA guns |
| 42 × 2-pounder AA guns | |
| 19 × 20 mm AA guns |
Oberon (N 21) |
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| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O1 |
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Fate: She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie |
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This book encapsulates the life of a wartime submarine. It includes photographs and diary entries, log extracts and sailing orders and exciting personal accounts. Written by a relative of one of the crew, it gives a different flavour to that found in the several excellent books already published by wartime submariners, and now mostly out of print. It is also a salute to all World War Two submariners.
HMS Trooper's operational life lasted from commissioning on 29th August 1942 to her loss in mid-October 1943. Brief indeed.
The author was two when his half-brother was killed, and had he not become curious to know more about him, Trooper's story would have remained untold.
20 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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