| Built By: | Swan Hunter (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | F17 |
| Fate: | Sold to Italian Ship breakers in 1964 and scrapped at La Spezia, |
Commissioned as HMS Artifex in January 1961
| 06-02-1924 | Launched |
| 30-09-1939 | Passenger ship Aurania requisitioned by the Admiralty from the Cunard White Star Ltd, Liverpool for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser. |
| 24-03-1942 | Sold to the Admiralty following damage sustained in an attack by U-123, laid up for some time, but finally converted into a repair ship finished in 1944 |
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| Admiralty Approved | 13th Jun, 1946 | |
| Symbology | The name is derived from the Latin for 'artificer'. | |
| Design Notes | Three sledgehammers, one erect, two in saltire, surmounted by a black anvil on a gold field. | |
| Displacement | 19,000 tons |
| Length | 538ft |
| Beam | 65ft 3in |
| Draught | 32ft 4in (max) |
| Speed | 15 knots |
| Armament | Several 20mm AA guns |
| Compliment | 592 |
I wanted to shout back, "You have never trained me to fire, have you? I'm only eighteen, remember!" But of course, I did no such thing. A Stuka bomber was poised overhead about a few hundred feet above our ship. The bomber came literally screaming down (at me personally, I thought). More orders shouted down to me from the bridge. "Open fire! Open fire!" I pointed the machine gun directly straight up in the air, my eyes squeezed tightly shut, my fingers squeezed tight, pressing the firing trigger. I was waiting for the bomb to explode on me.
HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait.
Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters, so shallow that many experts considered them unsuitable for submarine operations, she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 13th Jun, 1946 | |
| Symbology | The name is derived from the Latin for 'artificer'. | |
| Design Notes | Three sledgehammers, one erect, two in saltire, surmounted by a black anvil on a gold field. | |
| Displacement | 19,000 tons |
| Length | 538ft |
| Beam | 65ft 3in |
| Draught | 32ft 4in (max) |
| Speed | 15 knots |
| Armament | Several 20mm AA guns |
| Compliment | 592 |
I wanted to shout back, "You have never trained me to fire, have you? I'm only eighteen, remember!" But of course, I did no such thing. A Stuka bomber was poised overhead about a few hundred feet above our ship. The bomber came literally screaming down (at me personally, I thought). More orders shouted down to me from the bridge. "Open fire! Open fire!" I pointed the machine gun directly straight up in the air, my eyes squeezed tightly shut, my fingers squeezed tight, pressing the firing trigger. I was waiting for the bomb to explode on me.
HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait.
Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters, so shallow that many experts considered them unsuitable for submarine operations, she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
13 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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