| 1941 | Tigris (N 63) | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Thorn about 25 nautical miles west off the Loire estuary. |
| 1941 | Uproar (P 31) | Completed |
| 1942 | United (P 44) | Completed |
| 1942 | Wilk (N 64) (Dutch) | Decommissioned to reserve submarine |
| 1945 | Stygian (P 249) | HMS Stygian sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Java Sea south of Kangean Island. |
| 1945 | Thorough (P 324) | HMS Thorough sinks a small Japanese gunboat with gunfire off the Nicobar Islands. |
| 1945 | Rorqual (N 74) | HMS Rorqual sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire west of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1982 | Falklands War | Argentina invades the Falkland Islands |
| Class: | 1967 - 1996: Resolution Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | |
| Paid off May 1992 after completing 56 deterrent patrols and laid up at Rosyth. | |
HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics.
The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War.
Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the line and were never allowed to tell what they had done. This story, buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of Britain's great military success stories and can now finally be told.
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| Class: | 1967 - 1996: Resolution Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | |
| Paid off May 1992 after completing 56 deterrent patrols and laid up at Rosyth. | |
HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics.
The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War.
Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the line and were never allowed to tell what they had done. This story, buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of Britain's great military success stories and can now finally be told.
12 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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