| 1920 | Wolfe (F37) 1920 - 1952 | Launched |
| 1940 | Snapper (N 39) | HMS Snapper torpedoes and sinks the Norwegian merchant Cygnus west of Hadryet, Norway. |
| 1940 | Sealion (N 72) | HMS Sealion fires 6 torpedoes against a German convoy off the Boknafjord, Norway. None of the torpedoes found it's target and Sealion was heavily depth charged following this failed attack. |
| 1941 | Upholder (N 99) | HMS Upholder torpedoes in sinks the Italian merchant Laura C off Saline Ioniche, Calabria |
| 1942 | Truant (N 68) | HMS Truant torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Tamon Maru No.1 in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 1943 | Trident (N 52) | HMS Trident torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Vesta west of Leros, Greece. |
| 1943 | Rorqual (N 74) | HMS Rorqual lays 21 mines in the Skiathos Channel. |
| 1944 | Ultimatum (P 34) | HMS Ultimatum fires two torpedoes at the German auxilary patrol vessel Uj 6073/Nimeth Allah off Toulon, southern France. The torpedoes miss the target. |
| 1944 | Unruly (P 49) | HMS Unruly fires three torpedoes at the German merchants Erpel and Pelikan north-east of Mykonos. The torpedoes miss. |
| 1944 | Vox (P 73) | HMS Vox sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire off Monemvassia, Greece. |
| 1945 | Selene (P 254) | HMS Selene damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped Australia 1945/46 | |
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities.
Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valiant in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.
This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.
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| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped Australia 1945/46 | |
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities.
Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valiant in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.
This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.
18 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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