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Tantalus (P 318)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: T 3
Fate: Scrapped in November 1950 at Milford Haven.
Tantalus
Tantalus
Tantalus
Tantalus 1940
Tantalus 1948

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Commanders
1941: Lieutenant   Hugh Stirling Mackenzie
1943: Lieutenant Commander   Hugh Stirling Mackenzie DSO
1944: Lieutenant   Jeremy Nash DSC MID
1945: Lieutenant   Laurence Hugh Oliphant DSC
1945: Lieutenant   William Thomas John Fox

Ex P98

1943-1944: Indian Ocean.
1945: Pacific.

Events

 06-06-1942   Laid Down
 24-02-1943   Launched
 02-06-1943   Completed
 19-04-1944   HMS Tantalus sinks the Malaysian tug Kampung Besar with gunfire in the Malacca Strait.
 29-04-1944   HMS Tantalus sinks the Malaysian Pulo Salanama with gunfire in Malacca Strait.
 03-05-1944   HMS Tantalus torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Amagi Maru about 40 nautical miles south of Port Blair, Andaman Islands.
 02-06-1944   HMS Tantalus lays mines in the Strait of Malacca.
 10-06-1944   HMS Tantalus sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Hiyoshi Maru with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 17-07-1944   HMS Tantalus misses the Japanese submarine I-166 with torpedoes in the Strait of Malacca.
 31-08-1944   HMS Tantalus sinks a Siamese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca and damages another.
 04-09-1944   HMS Tantalus claims to have damaged a tug with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 02-11-1944   HMS Tantalus torpedoes and sinks the Japanese cargo ship Hachijin Maruand damages the Japanese submarine chaser Ch 1 about 225 nautical miles east of Singapore.
 11-11-1944   HMS Tantalus sinks the Japanese coaster Palang Maru with gunfire of the east coast of Malaya.
 30-01-1945   HMS Tantalus sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Taisei Maru No. 12 with gunfire off Bangka Strait.
 31-01-1945   HMS Tantalus sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire in the southern part of the South China Sea.
 01-02-1945   HMS Tantalus sinks a Japanese tug and three barges in the southern part of the South China Sea.
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