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X 8 (Expectant)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: X
Fate: Scuttled en-route to Norway to attack Lutzow on 17 Sept 1943

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Unofficially named Expectant

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Operation Source - September 1943

In September 1943 six in X-Craft were towed by six Submarines to attack German Capital Ships in the Kaa Fjord in Norway. In all (apart from the Towing Submarine Crew) forty-two X- Craft personnel took part in Operation Source, eighteen Passage Crew Members and twenty-four Operational Crew Members.

Events

 28-01-1943   Completed
 17-09-1943   X8 was lost 17 September 1943 while attacking the Tirpitz
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