| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P2 |
| Fate: | 1983 towed to a position off Falmouth and scuttled for use as diver training in salvage exercises. still in use |
Paid off and placed in reserve 1977. Taken in hand during 1980 and sunk off Portland for Smashex exercise. Salvaged and towed to Devonport.
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| Admiralty Approved | 2nd May, 1934 | |
| Motto | Cave quam feriam. (Beware what strikes.) | |
| Symbology | Distinctive whale with a twisted tusk. | |
| Design Notes | A silver narwhal breaking the surface in bend sinister from wavelets of gold and green. | |
| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 12800 miles maximum (design) |
| Surface: 3860 miles at full power or 11500 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 64 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 9 knots or 66 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (24 torpedoes carried) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 65 Others |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | T 1 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Tarpon left Portsmouth for Rosyth on 5th April 1940. She was diverted to patrol around Norway on 6th April 1940. Around 0600 hours on 10th April 1940 the Tarpon encountered the German 'Q-ship' Schiff 40 west of Jutland, Denmark. Tarpon attacked the German vessel with two torpedoes both of which missed. It is assumed that Tarpon was sunk with all hands by depth charges in a counter-attack by Schiff 40. Tarpon was reported overdue on 22nd April 1940. Tarpon was probably the first British submarine to be lost to depth charges in WW2. | |
The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight. Now Mike Rossiter - with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror - gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking.
With all the pace and tension of a thriller, Sink the Belgrano takes us inside the battle for the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the famous, and controversial, Sun headline 'Gotcha!' We track the collision course between the British submarine Conqueror and the Argentine warship - as the two sides and everyone aboard head towards the climactic moment just outside the exclusion zone set up by the British around the Falkland Isles. We witness the behind-the-scenes arguments, discussions and powerbroking that led to the decision to fire the three torpedoes. And, for the first time, we hear from the sailors on both sides - the personal testimony of the hunt for and attack on the Belgrano, and from the Argentine side the experience of being under attack and the sinking that left 340 members of her crew dead.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 2nd May, 1934 | |
| Motto | Cave quam feriam. (Beware what strikes.) | |
| Symbology | Distinctive whale with a twisted tusk. | |
| Design Notes | A silver narwhal breaking the surface in bend sinister from wavelets of gold and green. | |
| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 12800 miles maximum (design) |
| Surface: 3860 miles at full power or 11500 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 64 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 9 knots or 66 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (24 torpedoes carried) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 65 Others |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | T 1 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Tarpon left Portsmouth for Rosyth on 5th April 1940. She was diverted to patrol around Norway on 6th April 1940. Around 0600 hours on 10th April 1940 the Tarpon encountered the German 'Q-ship' Schiff 40 west of Jutland, Denmark. Tarpon attacked the German vessel with two torpedoes both of which missed. It is assumed that Tarpon was sunk with all hands by depth charges in a counter-attack by Schiff 40. Tarpon was reported overdue on 22nd April 1940. Tarpon was probably the first British submarine to be lost to depth charges in WW2. | |
The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight. Now Mike Rossiter - with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror - gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking.
With all the pace and tension of a thriller, Sink the Belgrano takes us inside the battle for the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the famous, and controversial, Sun headline 'Gotcha!' We track the collision course between the British submarine Conqueror and the Argentine warship - as the two sides and everyone aboard head towards the climactic moment just outside the exclusion zone set up by the British around the Falkland Isles. We witness the behind-the-scenes arguments, discussions and powerbroking that led to the decision to fire the three torpedoes. And, for the first time, we hear from the sailors on both sides - the personal testimony of the hunt for and attack on the Belgrano, and from the Argentine side the experience of being under attack and the sinking that left 340 members of her crew dead.
15 pages added or updated in the last 9 month
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Comments
Comment by: Graham(George) Bourne on May 9th, 2019
Was an OEM1 on Narwhal in the Seventies. Can't remember to many names but can see the faces of the lads. Wacker Payne was the POEL, Ollie Windle was the skipper and we had a stoker called Basil who had a chopper motor bike.
I think we did a trip to northern Norway at some stage and a round Britain tour to Sunderland, Newcastle, and through the Pentland Firth in a force 12 to Portree on the Isle of Skye. we then took her into drydock in Chatham dockyard for a refit. These were great times and our ships company were left to our own devices mainly. Myself and a stoker called Wingent (Wingnut) did the cooking.
I remember there was a production line going putting ships in bottles for the local pubs. I was drafted to HMAS Platypus in Sydney for 12 months as spare crew for HM/SM Odin. Life's a beach.
When I got back to the uk I left the RN and joined the Merchant Navy with Blue Star Line sailing mainly to North and South America, Australia and New Zealand via South Africa or the west coast of the USA. I also spent time in the Falklands in 1982 on a reefer ship being used as a supply ship for the task force.
Like your site. Keep up the good work.
Comment by: Dave Dickie on July 31st, 2018
My late father was CERA Dickie on HMS Narwhal until he left the Navy in 1972 and moved to South Africa.
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