| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | She was purchased by the Dutch government and served with the cold war fleet, renamed Zwaardvis in 1950, decommissioned on 11 December 1962. |
HMS Talent was transferred to the Dutch and recommisoned as HNLMS Zwaardvisch
After the war she was purchased by the Dutch government and served with the cold war fleet, renamed Zwaardvis in 1950.
| 13-10-1942 | Laid Down |
| 23-03-1943 | Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy. |
| 17-07-1943 | Launched as HMS Talent, but was not commissioned into the Royal Navy |
| 23-11-1943 | Commisioned into to the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was renamed Zwaardvisch, Dutch for 'Swordfish'. She went on to lead a distinguished career. |
| 11-12-1962 | Decommissioned |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | |
| Transferred to Israeli Navy in 1965 and renamed Leviathan. Scrapped in 1978. | |
On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitzs U-boat flotillas consisted of some thirty U-boats fully operational, with only six to eight at sea at any one time. Their activities were restricted mainly to the North Sea and British coastal waters.
When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to the Atlantic, and the ability to extend their reach even to. The Royal Navy was unable to escort convoys much beyond the Western Approaches. In a short time, the Allies were losing 500,000 tons of shipping a month, every month.
Donitz now looked over the far horizons, Americas Eastern Seaboard, the coasts of Africa, and the Mediterranean, where Allied merchantmen habitually sailed alone and unprotected. There was a rich harvest to be gathered in by the long range U-boats, the silent hunter-killers, mostly operating alone.
This book tells their story.
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | |
| Transferred to Israeli Navy in 1965 and renamed Leviathan. Scrapped in 1978. | |
On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitzs U-boat flotillas consisted of some thirty U-boats fully operational, with only six to eight at sea at any one time. Their activities were restricted mainly to the North Sea and British coastal waters.
When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to the Atlantic, and the ability to extend their reach even to. The Royal Navy was unable to escort convoys much beyond the Western Approaches. In a short time, the Allies were losing 500,000 tons of shipping a month, every month.
Donitz now looked over the far horizons, Americas Eastern Seaboard, the coasts of Africa, and the Mediterranean, where Allied merchantmen habitually sailed alone and unprotected. There was a rich harvest to be gathered in by the long range U-boats, the silent hunter-killers, mostly operating alone.
This book tells their story.
22 pages added or updated in the last Array month
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