| 1908 | C 24 (I54) | Laid Down |
| 1941 | Tigris (N 63) | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the French fishing vessel Rene Camaleyre in the Bay of Biscay about 5 nautical miles east of Biarritz, France. |
| 1941 | Utmost (N 19) | HMS Utmost torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Manfredo Camperio off Tripoli, Libya. |
| 1942 | Una (N 87) | HMS Una torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Luciana about 20 nautical miles north-east of Crotone, Calabria, Italy. |
| 1943 | Saracen (P 247) | HMS Saracen sinks the French tugs Provincale II and Marseillaise V. with gunfire off Cape Sardineaux, southern France. |
| 1944 | Stonehenge (P 232) | HMS Stonehenge sinks the Japanese auxiliary minelayer Choko Maru off the west coast of Malaya |
| 1944 | Taku (N 38) | HMS Taku torpedoes and heavily damages the German merchant Harm Fritzen off Stavanger, Norway. |
| 1946 | United (P 44) | Scrapped at Troon. |
| 1958 | Walrus (S 08) | Laid Down |
| 1970 | Auriga (P 419) | Auriga suffered a battery expolosion while in the Gibraltar area while engaged in NATO exercises. 10 men were injured but the boat was able to safely reach port. |
| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | |
| Lost after a collision with SS Yuta off Wei-Hai-Wei in the Gulf of Korea 9th June 1931. | |
When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a revealing picture of the German Navys training and methods.
U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater.
Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the gruelling aspects of a submariner s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans.
As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.
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| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | |
| Lost after a collision with SS Yuta off Wei-Hai-Wei in the Gulf of Korea 9th June 1931. | |
When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a revealing picture of the German Navys training and methods.
U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater.
Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the gruelling aspects of a submariner s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans.
As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.
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