| 1912 | E 5 (I 85) | Launched |
| 1912 | A 3 | Raised and used as target and sunk |
| 1917 | Sea Lions | Second experiment using Sea Lions to detect submarines begins |
| 1917 | G 14 (I 6C) | Launched |
| 1919 | H 33 | Completed |
| 1919 | L 71 | Launched |
| 1945 | Terrapin (P 323) | HMS Terrapin sinks a Japanese sailing vessel and damages another with gunfire in the western part of the Java Sea. |
| 1945 | Tiptoe (P 332) | HMS Tiptoe sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire of Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1945 | Ambush (P 418) | Laid Down |
| 1958 | Aurochs (P 426) | Aurochs was patrolling the Molucca Sea off Indonesia when an unidentified aircraft machine-gunned her. No casualties or damage were sustained. President Sukarno's Indonesian government told the UK Government that its armed forces had not made the attack. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that it accepted the assurance and assumed that North Celebes insurgents had carried out the attack. |
| 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 Bödo. 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 Bödo sometime between 22nd and 28th March 1944. | |
Presents an account of the development of the ballistic missile submarine, and a lifelong love affair with submarines.
Submarine Admiral is a well written, well documented personal narrative of submarine development through times of breath-taking change in war, both hot and cold.
Readers of THE SUBMARINE REVIEW will find it fascinating and a key book for their submarine library.
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| 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 Bödo. 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 Bödo sometime between 22nd and 28th March 1944. | |
Presents an account of the development of the ballistic missile submarine, and a lifelong love affair with submarines.
Submarine Admiral is a well written, well documented personal narrative of submarine development through times of breath-taking change in war, both hot and cold.
Readers of THE SUBMARINE REVIEW will find it fascinating and a key book for their submarine library.
17 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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