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Tradewind (P 329)

Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: T 3
Fate: Scrapped on 14th December 1955 at Charlestown
HMS Tradewind. It is reported that a snort mast was eventually fitted for snorting noise trials. The upper image clearly has no snort mast while the lower image appears to have a folded down mast just aft of the fin.
HMS Tradewind. It is reported that a snort mast was eventually fitted for snorting noise trials. The upper image clearly has no snort mast while the lower image appears to have a folded down mast just aft of the fin.
Tradewind (P 329)
Tradewind (P 329)

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Commanders
1943: Lieutenant   Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon DSO
1945: Lieutenant   Jeremy Nash DSC MID
1946: Lieutenant   Peter Frank Bassett Roe
1947: Lieutenant   John Evelyn Moore
1948: Lieutenant   Charles Brian Mills DSC

It is reported that she was modified to reduced submerged noise and used in ASW experimental work, running out of Portland. From photographs it can be seen the gun was removed and that a streamlined fairing was fitted around the gun access tower and the fore part of the connning tower, also it appears that all external torpedo tubes were removed. Whilst still basically a T boat in shape, she presents a smooth and clean appearance in the photographs.

Events

 11-02-1942   Laid Down
 18-10-1943   Completed
 11-12-1943   Launched
 16-09-1944   HMS Tradewind sinks two small Japanese vessels with scuttling charges off the Sunda Strait.
 18-09-1944   HMS Tradewind torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Junyo Maru about 18 nautical miles south of Mukomuko, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. Unbeknown to the Commanding Officer of the submarine, the Japanese ship was carrying 4200 Javanese slave labourers and 2300 Allied prisoners from Batavia to Padang. 5620 lives were lost in the sinking.
 30-10-1944   HMS Tradewind lays mines of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma.
 08-11-1944   HMS Tradewind sinks five Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma.
 10-11-1944   HMS Tradewind sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma.
 20-04-1945   HMS Tradewind sinks a Japanese tug and two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam.
 29-04-1945   HMS Tradewind torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant tanker Takasago Maru in the Gulf of Siam.
 14-12-1955   Scrapped at Charlestown
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