| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | Scrapped by West of Scotland Shipbreaking at Troon 26 February 1946. |
| 1932: | Lieutenant | Henry Leslie Spofforth Baker | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | R T Gordon-Duff | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Lawrence St George Rich | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | John Symons Huddart | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | Philip Stewart Francis | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Robert Love Alexander | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Peter Minet Staveley | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Henry Denys Verschoyle | DSC MID |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Anthony Robert Profit | DSC MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | George Edward Lynton Foster Edsell | |
| 1944: | Acting Lieutenant | Percy Samuel Parmenter (RNR) |
1940 - 1st Flotilla: HMS Medway, Alexandria
One of the 'Magic Carpet' boats. This boat was the most successful of its class.
Proteus engaged and sank 17 German and Italian merchant ships, troopships, tankers and torpedo boats during her service in the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Her attack on the troop transport ship Ithaka is thought to be the first radar guided submarine attack.
HMS Proteus was the longest surviving Parthian-class submarine and the only Parthian class submarine to survive the war.
HMS Proteus Launch
Roll of Honour |
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| Goodwin, Keith John |
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| The son of John Henry Goodwin and Edith Lillian Goodwin. He died from Asthenia (general weakness) and acute encephalitis. However, according to the Naval BMD Record he was attached to HMS Brontosaurus, the Combined Operations Base in Argyll when he died. |
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| 18-07-1928 | Laid Down |
| 23-07-1929 | Launched |
| 17-06-1930 | Completed |
| 02-11-1941 | HMS Proteus made the first successful radar attack by a submarine as she damaged the Italian tanker Tampico off Andros, 50 miles southeast of Athens, Greece. Italian torpedo boats Monzambano and Castelfidardo counterattacked and chased off the British submarine. |
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| Admiralty Approved | 13th Oct, 1928 | |
| Motto | Mutare sperno. (I scorn to change.) | |
| Symbology | Neptune's herdsman, who changed shape at will. | |
| Design Notes | An erect silver sea lion chained in gold on a green background. | |
| Additional Notes | In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water; he is depicted as a merman holding a trident. | |
| Length overall | 289 ft 2 inch |
| Beam | 28 ft |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 inch |
| Displacement | 1760 tons (surface) |
| 2040 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6 ft 5 inch dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 11400 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 10750 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8.5 miles at 8.5 knots or 70 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
Thames 1885 - 1920 |
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| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | Thames |
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Fate: Sold to South African Navy, 1920, to become General Botha |
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"They were the only thing that really frightened me" So said the usually steadfast Winston Churchill of the German Navy's U-Boat fleet - the dreaded Wolf Pack, which stalked the Atlantic depths, bringing instant death to merchantman and warship alike.
Together with a formidable surface fleet, the U-Boats challenged the Royal Navy's traditional supremacy of the oceans, countering Britain's strength in numbers with a reign of silent terror. A decade of secret rebuilding had brought forth capital ships like the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen - names to strike fear into any Allied seafarer.
However, it was from under the water that the biggest threat was to come. Commanded by Admiral Karl Doenitz, the submarines laid waste to shipping, cutting supply lines and striking from within convoys where Allied escorts dare not use guns. The U-Boat captains were the equivalent of Luftwaffe aces - ruthless, cunning and ice-cool under pressure. Enduring harsh conditions for months on end and working in darkness with no chance of escape, this was truly a war of nerves.
"There is no margin for error on a submariner" said one captain. "You are either alive or dead." on May 4 1945, Doenitz issued orders to cease hostilities. "You have fought like lions" he said to his valiant survivors. "You are laying down your arms after a heroic fight which knows no equals."
The story of that light is told hare using rare archive footage, much of which has been unavailable in the West since World War II.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 13th Oct, 1928 | |
| Motto | Mutare sperno. (I scorn to change.) | |
| Symbology | Neptune's herdsman, who changed shape at will. | |
| Design Notes | An erect silver sea lion chained in gold on a green background. | |
| Additional Notes | In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water; he is depicted as a merman holding a trident. | |
| Length overall | 289 ft 2 inch |
| Beam | 28 ft |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 inch |
| Displacement | 1760 tons (surface) |
| 2040 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6 ft 5 inch dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 11400 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 10750 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8.5 miles at 8.5 knots or 70 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
Thames 1885 - 1920 |
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| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | Thames |
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Fate: Sold to South African Navy, 1920, to become General Botha |
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"They were the only thing that really frightened me" So said the usually steadfast Winston Churchill of the German Navy's U-Boat fleet - the dreaded Wolf Pack, which stalked the Atlantic depths, bringing instant death to merchantman and warship alike.
Together with a formidable surface fleet, the U-Boats challenged the Royal Navy's traditional supremacy of the oceans, countering Britain's strength in numbers with a reign of silent terror. A decade of secret rebuilding had brought forth capital ships like the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen - names to strike fear into any Allied seafarer.
However, it was from under the water that the biggest threat was to come. Commanded by Admiral Karl Doenitz, the submarines laid waste to shipping, cutting supply lines and striking from within convoys where Allied escorts dare not use guns. The U-Boat captains were the equivalent of Luftwaffe aces - ruthless, cunning and ice-cool under pressure. Enduring harsh conditions for months on end and working in darkness with no chance of escape, this was truly a war of nerves.
"There is no margin for error on a submariner" said one captain. "You are either alive or dead." on May 4 1945, Doenitz issued orders to cease hostilities. "You have fought like lions" he said to his valiant survivors. "You are laying down your arms after a heroic fight which knows no equals."
The story of that light is told hare using rare archive footage, much of which has been unavailable in the West since World War II.
20 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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