| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | John Anthony Spender | |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | Aston Dalzell Piper (RNR) | DSO DSC |
Completed by Vickers Barrow
1944-1945: Indian Ocean.
Roll of Honour |
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| Gaffney, Oliver |
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| Submarine HMS Sirdar was on passage to Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was on a stopover at Aden. Oliver Gaffney died in the RAF Hospital at Aden from a fractured vertebra/spinal cord injury, the result of a diving accident. The son of James William and Mary Ellen Gaffney of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. |
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| 24-04-1941 | Laid Down |
| 26-03-1943 | Launched |
| 20-09-1943 | Completed |
| 08-06-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 11-06-1944 | HMS Sirdar damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire north of Sumatra. |
| 18-07-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
| 21-07-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks two Japanese coasters with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
| 01-09-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire north-west of Sumatra. |
| 01-09-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks the Japanese guardboat Kaiyo Maru No.5 with gunfire about 17 nautical miles south-east of Meulaboh, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 25-12-1944 | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire off Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 01-02-1953 | Sirdar was swamped by floods while in dry dock at the naval dockyard at Sheerness, Kent, and later sank. |
| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped 04/05/1977 | |
HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait.
Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters, so shallow that many experts considered them unsuitable for submarine operations, she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
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| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped 04/05/1977 | |
HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait.
Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters, so shallow that many experts considered them unsuitable for submarine operations, she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
17 pages added or updated in the last 4 month
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