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Vox (P 73)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: V2
Fate: Scrapped in May 1946 at Cochin.
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
HMS Vox P73, HMS Voracious P78 & HMS Virtue P75
Vox (P 73)
Vox (P 73)

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Commanders
1945: Acting Lieutenant Commander   Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald DSC MID

Replaced the first Vox until she returned to RN service.

Roll of Honour

1
Munro, Hector Charles Seymour
C/JX 394662
Born: 7th Aug, 1923.
Died: 11th Jul, 1945.
Aged: 21
From: Fouis-Obsdale Scotland
Able Seaman
Hector Munro was the only son of the four children of Sir Arthur Herman Munro, 14th Baronet of Fouis-Obsdale, Scotland and Violet Beatrice Powles.

He joined the Royal Navy, qualified as an Able Seaman (LTO) and served in Submarine HMS Vox. It is understood that he shot himself whilst HMS Vox was at Sydney, Australia 'whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed'.

It is understood that had he lived he would have become Sir Hector Munro, 15th Baron Munro of Foulis-Obsdale.

Events

 19-12-1942   Laid Down
 28-09-1943   Launched
 20-12-1943   Completed
 03-07-1944   HMS Vox sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire off Monemvassia, Greece.
 04-07-1944   HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks a German sailing vessel off Santorini Island, Greece.
 10-07-1944   HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks the German collier Anita between Andros and Tinos Islands, Greece.
 01-08-1944   HMS Vox claims the sinking of a sailing vessel with gunfire south of Santorini Island, Greece.
 03-08-1944   HMS Vox fires two torpedoes at an enemy auxiliary patrol vessel south of Santorini Island, Greece. Both torpedoes miss.
 04-08-1944   HMS Vox torpedoes and sinks a German guardboat and the German sailing vessels Thetis and SA 83 north of Iraklion, Crete.
 09-08-1944   HMS Vox claims to have damaged a small German merchant with gunfire off Candia, Crete, Greece.
 31-08-1944   HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Crete.
 24-09-1944   HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire about 15 nautical miles south of the Kassandra Peninsula, Greece.
 25-09-1944   HMS Vox sinks the Greek sailing vessel Vol with gunfire about 12 nautical miles south-east of Ayiokambos, Larisis, Greece.

Official
V2 Specification
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 and 33 Ratings
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