| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in January 1946 at Troon. |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Andrew George Prideaux | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Hugh Bentley Turner | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | David Sivewright Brown (RNVR) | |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald | DSC MID |
| 1945: | Acting Lieutenant | David Pels (RNVR) |
Roll of Honour |
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| Sim, Jack |
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| He was hit by small arms fire during a surface gun action with an Italian convoy off Mahdia, Tunisia on Christmas Day 1942 and died shortly after. The son of George and Ella Sim. |
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| Crossley, Alfred Harvey (SANF) |
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| He was a member of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. On 7 March 1943 he was launched in a Folbot together with Lieutenant Victor De Kock, to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky. Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned. | ||||||
| De Kock, Victor Peter de Chattillon (RNVR) MBE DSC MiD |
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| He was a member of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. On 7 March 1943 he was launched in a Folbot together with Sub Lieutenant Alfred Crossley, to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky. Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned. | ||||||
| 12-05-1941 | Laid Down |
| 16-02-1942 | While operating south of Punta Stilo HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the Italian sailing vessel Sparviero and the Italian merchant Pasubio. |
| 16-02-1942 | Launched |
| 29-03-1942 | HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary submarine chasers UJ 2201/Bois Rose and UJ 2204/Boral off the Gulf of Picarenzi, Italy. |
| 03-05-1942 | Completed |
| 03-12-1942 | HMS Unrivalled torpedoes damages the Italian torpedo boat Antonio Mosto and the Italian sailing vessel Cesira Curreri with gunfire in the Gulf of Tunis. |
| 26-12-1942 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian auxiliary submarine chaser O 97/Margherita with gunfire about 5 nautical miles north of Mehedia, Tunisia. |
| 31-12-1942 | HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Maddalena south-east of Mehedia, Tunisia. |
| 16-01-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian tug Genova with gunfire near Sousa, Tunisia. |
| 20-01-1943 | While on patrol of Tunisia HMS Unrivalled intercepts a small Italian naval auxiliary towing a schooner. She sinks the naval auxiliary with gunfire. |
| 21-01-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian sailing vessels Margherita and Ardito with gunfire and scuttling charges about 5 nautical miles north-east of Kuriat, Tunisia. |
| 01-03-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian sailing vessel Triglav 4 nautical miles south-east of Cape San Vito. |
| 19-04-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian merchantmen Mostaganem & Bivona off Sicily |
| 06-05-1943 | HMS Unrivalled attacks the Italian sailing vessel Albina with a torpedo off Cape Vaticano, Calabria, Italy. The torpedo misses. |
| 07-05-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks Italian sailing vessel Albina |
| 09-05-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian Santa Mariana Salina |
| 24-07-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper R 172/Impero with gunfire off Amantea, Italy. |
| 25-07-1943 | HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian tug Iseo with gunfire 1 mile south of Cape Vaticano. |
| Length overall | 195 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 648 tons (surface) |
| 735 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (surface) |
| 9 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 4050 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 23 miles at 8 knots or 170 miles at 2.5 knots (design) | |
| Armament | 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried) |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 4 Officers, 29 Others. |
Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
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| Length overall | 195 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 648 tons (surface) |
| 735 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (surface) |
| 9 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 4050 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 23 miles at 8 knots or 170 miles at 2.5 knots (design) | |
| Armament | 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried) |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 4 Officers, 29 Others. |
Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
18 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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