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HMS Triton (N 15)

Submarine of the T class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassT 
PennantN 15 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down28 Aug, 1936 
Launched5 Oct, 1937 
Commissioned9 Nov, 1938 
Lost18 Dec, 1940 
Loss position
 
History

HMS Triton (Lt. Guy Claud Ian St Barbe Slade Watkins, RN) left Malta on 28 November 1940 for a patrol in the southern Adriatic. Most likely sunk in the Otranto Strait on or around 18 December 1940.

Commanding officers:
Lt.Cdr. H.P. de C. Steele, RN
7 June 1938 - 24 November 1939

Lt.Cdr. Edward Fowle Pizey, RN
24 November 1939 - 18 August 1940
DSC awarded on 9 May 1940

Lt. Guy Claud Ian St Barbe Slade Watkins, RN
18 August 1940 - 18 December 1940+ 


Noteable events involving Triton include:

10 Sep, 1939
HMS Triton (Lt.Cdr. H.P. De C. Steele, RN) torpedoes and sinks (in error) the British submarine HMS Oxley (Lt.Cdr. H.G. Bowerman, RN) some 28 nautical miles south-south-west of Stavanger, Norway in position 58º30'N, 05º30'E. Triton picked up two survivors, one of these was Lt.Cdr. Bowerman. (see map)

28 Feb, 1940
HMS Triton (Lt.Cdr. E.F. Pizey, RN) tries to intercept the German blockade breaker Wangoni (7848 GRT) of Kristiansand, Norway. The Wangoni however doesn't stop and manages to escape.

8 Apr, 1940
HMS Triton (Lt.Cdr. E.F. Pizey, RN) fires 10 torpedoes against the German cruisers Blücher, Lützow and Emden off Skagen. All torpedoes fired missed their targets.

10 Apr, 1940
While operating in the Kattegat HMS Triton (Lt.Cdr. E.F. Pizey, RN) torpedoes and sinks the German merchants Friedenau (5219 GRT) and Wigbert (3648 GRT) in position 57º27'N, 10º46'E and the auxiliary patrol vessel V 1507 / Rau 6 (356 GRT) in position 57º50'N, 11º22'E. (see map)

4 Oct, 1940
HMS Triton (Lt. G.C.I.S.B. Watkins, RN) torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Franca Fassio (1858 GRT) about 16 nautical miles north of Cape Noli near Genua.

8 Oct, 1940
HMS Triton (Lt. G.C.I.S.B. Watkins, RN) attacks the Italian merchant Spezia (1825 GRT) with torpedoes off Vado Ligure, Savona, Italy. The target is not hit.




Fatal Decisions
Blandford, Edmund

Books dealing with this subject include:

Fatal Decisions, Blandford, Edmund, 1999


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