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Tribune (N 76)

Built By: Scotts (Clyde)
Build Group: T 1
Fate: Scrapped in July 1947 at Milford Haven.
Tribune (N 76)
Tribune (N 76)

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Commanders
1938: Lieutenant Commander   George Philip Sevier Davies
1940: Lieutenant   Edward Francis Balston
1941: Lieutenant   Richard Gatehouse
1941: Lieutenant   John Henry Bromage DSC
1941: Lieutenant Commander   William Alexander Keith Napier Cavaye
1941: Lieutenant   Richard Prendergast Raikes
1941: Lieutenant   Thomas Graeme Ridgeway
1941: Lieutenant Commander   Robert Galliano Norfolk
1942: Lieutenant   Thomas Graeme Ridgeway
1942: Lieutenant   Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson Milner DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Stewart Armstrong Porter
1942: Lieutenant   Norman Jack Coe (RNR) DSC MID
1942: Lieutenant   Lennox William Napier
1942: Sub Lieutenant   Anthony Francis Murray-Johnson
1943: Lieutenant Commander   Walter Neal Eade
1944: Acting Lieutenant Commander   Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill
1944: Lieutenant   Aston Dalzell Piper (RNR) DSC
1945: Lieutenant   John Paton Fyfe
1945: Acting Lieutenant   Michael Dent Tattersall (RNVR)

Roll of Honour

1
 
Hagan, James  C/SSX 14034 Born: 1st Oct, 1913. 
Died: 28th Jul, 1944.
Leading Seaman Aged: 30
from Gateshead, County Durham
Died in the in the Newcastle on Tyne General Hospital from an abscess on the lung.

At the time his submarine, HMS Tribune, was refitting in the Swan Hunter Shipyard at Wallsend.

Events

 03-03-1937   Laid Down
 08-12-1938   Launched
 17-10-1939   Completed
 17-01-1940   HMS Tribune fires 6 torpedoes against an enemy submarine in the Skagerrak about 15 nautical miles east-north-east of Skagen, Denmark.
 22-06-1940   HMS Tribune makes a torpedo attack on an enemy merchant off Standlandet, Norway. All torpedoes missed.
 06-09-1940   HMS Tribune attacks German submarine U-56 about 15 nautical miles north-east of St. Kilda, Hebrides. Two torpedoes were fired but missed.
 16-12-1940   HMS Tribune attacks the German tanker Karibisches Meer in the Bay of Biscay east of Ile de Yeu, France. All torpedoes missed.
 19-12-1940   HMS Tribune attacks the German merchant Birkenfels in the Bay of Biscay west-south-west of Belle Ile, France. All torpedoes missed.
 10-01-1943   HMS Tribune torpedoes and damages the French merchant Dalny 15 nautical miles from San Remo, Italy.
 11-01-1943   HMS Tribune again torpedoes and damages the (now beached) French merchant Dalny off Cape Cervo, Sardinia, Italy.
 22-03-1943   HMS Tribune torpedoes and damages the German tanker President Herrenschmidt about 10 nautical miles north-west of Cape Suvero.
 30-03-1943   HMS Tribune unsuccesfully fires four torpedoes at the Italian merchant Benevento about 50 nautical miles north of Ustica, Italy
Comments

Comment by: Ian Sutherland on April 21st, 2016

HMS TRIBUNE landed a special services party on a beach near Ajaccio in Corsica in Feb '43. There is a beautiful memorial to the party placed on the 50th anniversary and I am looking for more information.

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