Allied Warships

HMS Trespasser (P 312)

Submarine of the T class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassT 
PennantP 312 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Sep 1941 
Launched29 May 1942 
Commissioned25 Sep 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped at Gateshead starting on 26 September 1961.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. Richard Molyneux Favell, RN
14 July 1942 - 14 October 1944
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1943
DSC awared on 6 June 1944

Lt. Laurance Edward Herrick, DSC, RN
14 October 1944 - 21 May 1945

T/Lt. Michael Dent Tattersall, RNVR
21 May 1945 - still in command in in October 1945 according to the Navy List.
DSC awared on 19 June 1945

 

Commands listed for HMS Trespasser (P 312)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. Richard Molyneux Favell, RN14 Jul 194214 Oct 1944
2Lt. Laurence Edward Herrick, DSC, RN14 Oct 194410 Jun 1945
3Lt. John Oldham Coote, RN10 Jun 194525 Jun 1945
4Lt.Cdr. Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell, DSC, RN25 Jun 194528 Jun 1945
5T/Lt. Michael Dent Tattersall, DSC, RNVR28 Jun 194512 Oct 1945

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Noteable events involving Trespasser include:


30 May 1943
While on patrol in the Gulf of Lyon HMS Trespasser (Lt. R.M. Favell, RN) fires three torpedoes (in error) at a dead whale ......... oops !

8 Jun 1943
HMS Trespasser (Lt. R.M. Favell, RN) fires 6 torpedoes at the German auxilary patrol vessel Uj 6073 / Nimeth Allah off Toulon, southern France. The torpedoes however miss their target.

13 Jul 1943
HMS Trespasser (Lt. R.M. Favell, RN) sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V8 / Filippo (242 GRT) with gunfire about 25 nautical miles south of Bastia, Corsica, France.

At 1135 hours (time zone -2) a large three masted schooner of about 200 tons was sighted in position 42º20'N, 09º50'E. She was laying stopped with her stern to a sea anchor or some sort of buoy. At 1230 hours Trespasser surfaced and opened fire on the schooner with the deck gun. The crew of the schooner abandoned ship and the vessel burst into flames.

(see map)

18 Feb 1944
HMS Trespasser (Lt.Cdr. R.M. Favell, RN) torpedoes and damages the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Eifuku Maru (3520 GRT) off Burma in position 07º55'N, 93º03'E. (see map)

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