| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | H21 |
| Fate: | At the time that the German Battle Cruisers Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen were expected to leave Breast, H31 was sent to form part of a circle of submarines around the French Port. H31 was escorted as far as the Wolfe Rock and left her escort on 19th December 1941. Nothing more was seen or heard of H31 which was presumed lost in the Atlantic along the Northwest Coast of Spain. There were no survivors. |
Roll of Honour |
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| Bailey, Joseph Stanley |
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| Stoker 1st Class | ||||||
| ADM104/127 P144 Service number is given as C/JX 227846 | ||||||
| Bartlett, Edward |
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| Benson, Ronald |
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| ADM104/127 P282 Service number is given as C/JX 190448 | ||||||
| Campbell, Peter Donald Nathaniel (RNR) |
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| Carson, John Harris |
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| Champion, Charles Henry Bernard DSM |
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| Corry, James |
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| Crager, Alfred John |
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| Engine Room Artificer 5th Class | ||||||
| Doughty, Harold |
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| Dowdell, Frank Harold George |
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| Ensby, Albert Edward |
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| ADM104/130 P1209 Service number is given as D/JX 221299 | ||||||
| Eynon, Maurice (RNVR) |
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| Fraser, Allan |
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| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | ||||||
| Gibbs, Frank Bridger MID |
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| Commanding Officer | ||||||
| Goodman, Levi Thomas |
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| Grainger, Joseph James |
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| Harley, William Leonard George |
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| Holroyd, Wilfred |
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| Hurley, John Bartle |
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| ADM104/132 P1209 Service number is given as P/JX 203581 | ||||||
| Jarvis, Eric Newton |
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| Jarvis, Kenneth Sylvester |
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| Jones, Norman Cyril |
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| Maynard, Arthur Edward |
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| Merritt, Alexander Ian (RNZN) |
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| Morse, Robert Frederick |
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| Munns, Sidney William Thomas |
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| O, Wilfred Augustine |
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| Richards, John Conway |
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| Rollins, Stanley Edward |
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| Smith, Alexander |
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| Spencer, Dennis |
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| Stamper, John McGregor |
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| Truckle, Major Thomas |
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| 19-04-1917 | Laid Down |
| 16-11-1918 | Launched |
| 21-02-1919 | Completed |
| 18-07-1940 | Sank UJ-126 in the North Sea |
| 24-12-1941 | HMS H-31 sunk by mine in Bay of Biscay In December 1941 news was received of a possible break out from Brest, by the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen. In expectation of this eight submarines were sent to the area but although the breakout did not take place, H31 failed to return. The submarine had sailed from Falmouth on 19th December. She was requested to signal her position on the 24th but did not do so. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 1 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped 17th February 1946 at Newport. | |
The Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course, or 'Perisher', is a unique course, training, assessing and qualifying officers for submarine command which is, itself, unique, challenging and demanding; the epitome of mission command, with no succour, referral or support in a continuously threatening environment. It is therefore essential that those 'in command' are proven to be worthy and capable of their appointment.
The evolution of 'Perisher' is in recognisable periods: the earliest days, following the submarine's introduction into the Royal Navy, was an autodidactic existence with COs learning from their peers and by experimentation.
By 1917 circumstances had conflated to create the Periscope School and the Periscope Course to train and qualify COs whose characteristics were now fully formed. The interwar period was a difficult time, but it produced new submarines and technological innovations just in time for the Second World War and the most intense evolutionary period for 'Perisher'.
Post-1945 to 1969 experienced two evolutions: Commander Sandy Woodward's codification of the art of attacking and a shift in emphasis from purely 'periscope eye' attacking toward the development of safety and tactical prowess in students. In the 1970s-1980s, two parallel courses satisfied the demand for COs from an expanding diesel-nuclear submarine fleet using SSKs and then in 1989, an SSN.
The final period, 1990-2017 continues today with an all-nuclear Perisher and a curriculum to meet a changing battlespace, new weapons and tactics. Throughout its history, 'Perisher' has shaped the submarine commanding officer and he, in return, has shaped 'Perisher'.
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 1 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped 17th February 1946 at Newport. | |
The Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course, or 'Perisher', is a unique course, training, assessing and qualifying officers for submarine command which is, itself, unique, challenging and demanding; the epitome of mission command, with no succour, referral or support in a continuously threatening environment. It is therefore essential that those 'in command' are proven to be worthy and capable of their appointment.
The evolution of 'Perisher' is in recognisable periods: the earliest days, following the submarine's introduction into the Royal Navy, was an autodidactic existence with COs learning from their peers and by experimentation.
By 1917 circumstances had conflated to create the Periscope School and the Periscope Course to train and qualify COs whose characteristics were now fully formed. The interwar period was a difficult time, but it produced new submarines and technological innovations just in time for the Second World War and the most intense evolutionary period for 'Perisher'.
Post-1945 to 1969 experienced two evolutions: Commander Sandy Woodward's codification of the art of attacking and a shift in emphasis from purely 'periscope eye' attacking toward the development of safety and tactical prowess in students. In the 1970s-1980s, two parallel courses satisfied the demand for COs from an expanding diesel-nuclear submarine fleet using SSKs and then in 1989, an SSN.
The final period, 1990-2017 continues today with an all-nuclear Perisher and a curriculum to meet a changing battlespace, new weapons and tactics. Throughout its history, 'Perisher' has shaped the submarine commanding officer and he, in return, has shaped 'Perisher'.
22 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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Comments
Comment by: Richard Waring on May 18th, 2022
Between 24 April to 13 June and 15 July to 31 August of 1941, HMS H31 was at HMS Ferret Londonderry for A/S Exercises.
My Grandfather & Grandmother had a Sailors Home for tea/lunch & the sailors from H31 were among them. My grandmother took it very hard when H31 was reported missing in 1942. They lived above the EBNI showroom in Strabane, Co. Tyrone. Grandfather oversaw the electrical supply to HMS Ferret. He was in the RN from 1915 until 1928 and then the RNR until 1938
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