| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 1 |
| Fate: | On 28 November 1940, Triton left Malta for a patrol in the southern Adriatic Sea. On 6 December, the Italian merchant Olimpia was torpedoed by a British submarine in the area. Her distress message was picked up by the Royal Navy, which assumed that the attack had been carried out by Triton. The submarine was never heard from again, and was declared lost with all hands on 18 December. Olimpia was successfully towed to port by Italian escort units. The Italian Navy claimed that Triton was sunk by torpedo boats, probably Confienza, possibly by Clio, but the date cited was several days after contact was lost. British sources claimed that Triton was sunk by naval mines in the Strait of Otranto |
Lieutenant-Commander H P de C Steel, Royal Navy, HMS Triton testimony given at the Board of Inquiry into the circumstances of the loss of HMS Oxley
Roll of Honour |
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| Allen, David |
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| Beard, Albert George DSM |
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| Beattie, Norman |
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| Bennett, Arthur Keith |
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| Burton, Albert James |
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| Butcher, Charles Alfred |
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| Cain, William |
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| Cave, Charles Joseph Reginald MID |
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| Clark, Edward Charles MID |
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| Codman, Herbert Cyril Percival MID |
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| Chief Petty Officer | ||||||
| Coleman, Harry Robert |
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| Day, John Robert |
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| Dean, Reginald Edward (RNR) MID |
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| Lieutenant | ||||||
| Dean, Wilfred Henry |
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| Down, Harold George |
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| Early, Arthur Henry DSM |
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| East, Clinton McChomb |
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| Gardner, George Roland |
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| Hinde, Horatio John DSM |
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| Jackson, Cyril Thomas |
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| Jones, John Francis |
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| King, James Thomas |
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| Lang, Alexander |
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| Lavers, Edgar James Boyce MID |
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| Liddle, Frederick |
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| Matthews, Frederick William |
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| Milne, Ronald George DSC |
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| Moore, Cyril Henry |
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| Morgan, James MID |
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| Orme, Samuel |
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| Parramore, William Angus |
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| Pettitt, George Robert |
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| Pook, Ivor Leslie Roy |
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| Quick, Gilbert MID |
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| Riley, James |
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| Risby, John Francis |
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| Saunderson, Edward Percival DSM |
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| Saxby, Thoms Reuben |
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| Shears, Francis |
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| Shimmin, James |
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| Smith, Michael John Royston MID |
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| Smyth, Thomas |
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| Spite, Kenneth Frederick (RNR) |
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| Stafford, Frederick Thomas MID |
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| Stride, Christopher |
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| Temporal, Arthur |
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| Thorne, William Frank |
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| Trench, James |
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| Waters, William George Thomas |
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| Watkins, Guy Claud Ian St.Barbe Sladen MID |
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| Watson, Donald Charles DSM |
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| Westby, Jack |
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| Wilkinson, John Thomas |
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| Wyatt, Herbert |
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| 28-08-1936 | Laid Down |
| 04-10-1937 | Launched |
| 09-11-1938 | Completed |
| 10-09-1939 | HMS Triton had the misfortune to torpedo accidentally HMS Oxley off Norway. Oxley was the first British submarine lost during the Second World War. A Board of Enquiry found that Oxley was some way out of position and that Triton had acted correctly and was not culpable for the sinking. The cause of the disaster was kept a close secret until the 1950's. |
| 08-04-1940 | HMS Triton fires 10 torpedoes against the German cruisers Blecher, Lutzow and Emden off Skagen. All torpedoes missed their targets. |
| 10-04-1940 | While operating in the Kattegat HMS Triton torpedoes and sinks the German merchants Friedenau and Wigbert and the auxiliary patrol vessel V 1507/Rau 6. Some 900 German army personnel were drowned, this was the worst disaster suffered by the Germans during the operation. |
| 04-10-1940 | HMS Triton torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Franca Fassio about 16 nautical miles north of Cape Noli near Genua. |
| 08-10-1940 | HMS Triton attacks the Italian merchant Spezia with torpedoes off Vado Ligure, Savona, Italy. All torpedoes missed. |
| 08-12-1940 | Lost HMS Triton left Malta for a patrol in the lower Adriatic and the Straits of Otranto on 28th November 1940. At 0540 on 6th December an SOS from the Italian merchant vessel Olimpia was intercepted. Triton immediately set of to intercept her and seems to have made a successful attack before she was her self destroyed in a counter attack by two Italian Torpedo boats. There are also reports that the Italian Torpedo boat Clio may have sunk Triton. This attack is reported to have happened several days after Triton should have left the area and is therefore met with some scepticism |
| Length overall | 275 ft |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1327 tons (surface) |
| 1575 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.25 knots (design) |
| Surface 15.25 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged8.75 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 7500 miles at 15.25 knots (design) |
| (ii) Surface: 8000 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | (i) 8 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| (ii) 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 5 Officers and 51 Ratings |
| (wartime) 6 Officers and 56 Ratings | |
| Notes | (i) As an alternative load, Group 1 submarines could carry 18 mines |
| (ii) These were later replaced by, or supplemented by one 20mm Oerlikon cannon |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| Lost, possibly mined in the Guild of Taranto 26 November 1940. | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
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| Length overall | 275 ft |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1327 tons (surface) |
| 1575 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.25 knots (design) |
| Surface 15.25 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged8.75 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 7500 miles at 15.25 knots (design) |
| (ii) Surface: 8000 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | (i) 8 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| (ii) 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 5 Officers and 51 Ratings |
| (wartime) 6 Officers and 56 Ratings | |
| Notes | (i) As an alternative load, Group 1 submarines could carry 18 mines |
| (ii) These were later replaced by, or supplemented by one 20mm Oerlikon cannon |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| Lost, possibly mined in the Guild of Taranto 26 November 1940. | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
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