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Tantivy (P 319)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: T 3
Fate: Tantivy was used as a target in the Cromarty Firth in 1951.
Tantivy (P 319)
Tantivy (P 319)

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Commanders
1944: Lieutenant   Philip Henry May DSC MID

Ex P99

1943-1944: Indian Ocean.
1945: Pacific.

Post Horn Heralds Subs Return

Coventry Evening Telegraph, Thursday, 10 May 1945

Sounding a hunting horn HMS Tantivy returned to a home base from Far Eastern waters recently. Instead of the customary Jolly Roger she flies a black flag bearing the mark of a fox over crossed hunting horns. The Tantivy has taken her hunting horn to sea on all her patrols. It was sounded for the first time when she returned to a Far Eastern base after scoring her first torpedo success, a Japanese supply ship.

The commanding officer, Lt. P. H. May DSC of Monksheaton, Northumberland said

the hunting horn was presented by the builders and the success flag was made and presented to us by Barrow Grammar School for Girls who have unofficially adopted us and have been exceedingly kind to us.

Events

 04-07-1942   Laid Down
 06-04-1943   Launched
 25-07-1943   Completed
 07-05-1944   HMS Tantivy sinks a Siamese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.
 07-06-1944   HMS Tantivy lays mines in the Strait of Malacca.
 05-09-1944   HMS Tantivy sinks a merchant cargo ship off Sumatra
 21-10-1944   While operating in Makassar Strait HMS Tantivy sinks with gunfire, eight small Japanese vessels.
 22-10-1944   While operating in Makassar Strait HMS Tantivy sinks the Japanese Communications Vessel No. 137. Tantivy also sinks 6 small vessels that are unidentified with gunfire.
 23-10-1944   HMS Tantivy sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in Makassar Strait.
 25-10-1944   HMS Tantivy sinks the Japanese barge No. 136 and the Japanese motor sailing vessel Tachibana Maru No.47 with gunfire off Miro, Sumbawa, Netherlands East Indies.
 03-02-1945   HMS Tantivy sinks a Japanese tug and two Japanese coasters with gunfire in Panjang harbour, southern Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
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