Totem (P 352)
| Built By: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | Lost in January 1968 |
Commanders
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Michael Beauchamp St John | DSC |
| 1945: | Lieutenant (E) | Herbert Gardner | |
| 1949: | Lieutenant | John Evelyn Moore | |
| 1956: | Lieutenant Commander | Charles Brian Mills | DSC |
Totem was refitted and sold to Israel in the 1960s. In January 1968, renamed the Dakar and with a 69-strong Israeli crew, she left Portsmouth for her new homeland. She never arrived.
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Roll of Honour |
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| Flynn, Edmund John C/SSX 23598 | Born: 15th Apr, 1917. | ||
| Died: 20th Apr, 1945. | |||
| Petty Officer Telegraphist | Aged: 28 | ||
| from Sligo, County Sligo Ireland | |||
| Edmund Flynn was accidentally drowned on at Lerwick in the Shetland Isles where the Submarine had arrived on 19th April 1945 on completion of her 1st War Patrol. The son of James Aloysius Flynn and Agnes Mary Flynn (nee Power). There was a younger sister, Margaret Mary Flynn (born in 1921). His father is reported to have died in Sligo in April 1929. Edmund John Flynn of Highfield, Queen's Road, Hertford (who was unmarried) named his widowed mother as his Next of Kin. |
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Events
| 22-10-1942 | Laid Down |
| 28-09-1943 | Launched |
| 09-01-1945 | Completed |
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