Lt. Hunt was the top scoring Commanding officer during the latter period of the 10th Flotilla's existence.
He is reputed to have achieved 32 hits from 68 torpedoes fired destroying a higher number of vessels than any other British submarine CO during the war.
His tally reads as follows: 20 ships and 8 small craft of his aggregate 43,00 tons sunk a high proportion were supply tankers.
Transported chariots for attacks on Taranto in 1943.
HMS Ultor fires three torpedoes against a German controlled merchant and the German merchant Nicoline Maersk about 8 nautical miles east of Cape Camarat. All torpedoes miss.
HMS Ultor fires 4 torpedoes at the German netlayer NT 38 off Cap Camarat, southern France. The torpedoes miss. She does sink the German auxiliary patrol vessel Vinotra III.
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.
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Fate: Whilst carrying torpedoes which were fuelled by Hydrogen Peroxide she suffered an explosion whilst alongside in Portland Harbour on the 16th June 1955. Sidon sank twenty minutes after the explosion with the loss of 13 lives.
Expended as an anti-submarine target 14th June 1957.
The author relates his experiences as a submarine commander for the British Royal Navy during World War II, describing patrols in the North Sea and the Mediterranean and enemy attacks that made submarine operations the most dangerous of combat services
Fate: Whilst carrying torpedoes which were fuelled by Hydrogen Peroxide she suffered an explosion whilst alongside in Portland Harbour on the 16th June 1955. Sidon sank twenty minutes after the explosion with the loss of 13 lives.
Expended as an anti-submarine target 14th June 1957.
The author relates his experiences as a submarine commander for the British Royal Navy during World War II, describing patrols in the North Sea and the Mediterranean and enemy attacks that made submarine operations the most dangerous of combat services
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