| 1914 | AE 1 - Missing Sub | HMAS AE1 struck an uncharted reef and sank 14 September 1914 |
| 1918 | H 29 | Completed |
| 1931 | Seahorse (S 98) | Laid Down |
| 1932 | Thames (N 71) | Completed |
| 1939 | Seal (N 37) | HMS Seal ended her 1st war patrol at Aden. |
| 1941 | Thunderbolt (N 25) | HMS Thunderbolt fires three torpedoes against the German merchant Tinos about 30 nautical miles north-west of Benghazi, Libya. All torpedoes missed. |
| 1942 | Sahib (P 212) | HMS Sahib sinks an Italian sailing vessel with gunfire west of Sardinia. |
| 1942 | P 553 | Transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS P553 |
| 1943 | Upstart (P 65) | HMS Upstart sinks the French fishing vessels Grotte de Bethlehem and Torpille in the Bay of Biscay. |
| 1943 | Statesman (P 246) | Launched |
| 1944 | Spirit (P 245) | HMS Spirit sinks three Siamese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
| 1945 | Sturgeon (N 73) / Zeehond (Dutch) | Decommissioned and returned to Royal Navy, |
| 1962 | Thule (P 325) | Scrapped at Inverkeithing. |
Syrtis (P 241) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Syrtis left Lerwick on 16th March 1944 for a patrol off the Norwegian coast in latitude 63° 36' north. On 20th March 1944 the submarine was ordered to an area in the vicinity of Bodo. Records indicate that she carried out attacks on enemy vessels in the area on 22nd March. Syrtis was ordered to leave her patrol area on 28th March 1944 but failed to return to Lerwick as expected on 30th March 1944. An air search was carried out, but no sign of the submarine was found. Mines are now known to have been laid in the area in which HMS Syrtis was working, and it is almost certain that HMS Syrtis was lost with all hands by striking a mine off Bodo sometime between 22nd and 28th March 1944. |
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A candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live in one of the most extreme environments in the world.
Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast.
Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.
As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash.
But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song.
Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.
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Syrtis (P 241) |
|
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
|
Fate: Syrtis left Lerwick on 16th March 1944 for a patrol off the Norwegian coast in latitude 63° 36' north. On 20th March 1944 the submarine was ordered to an area in the vicinity of Bodo. Records indicate that she carried out attacks on enemy vessels in the area on 22nd March. Syrtis was ordered to leave her patrol area on 28th March 1944 but failed to return to Lerwick as expected on 30th March 1944. An air search was carried out, but no sign of the submarine was found. Mines are now known to have been laid in the area in which HMS Syrtis was working, and it is almost certain that HMS Syrtis was lost with all hands by striking a mine off Bodo sometime between 22nd and 28th March 1944. |
|
A candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live in one of the most extreme environments in the world.
Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast.
Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.
As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash.
But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song.
Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.
15 pages added or updated in the last 2 months
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