Name HMS Tactician Commissioned 29 November 1942 Construction started 13 November 1941 Length 84 m | Laid down 13 November 1941 Fate Scrapped December 1963 Launched 29 July 1942 Builder Vickers-Armstrongs | |
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Class and type British T class submarine Displacement 1,290 tons surfaced
1,560 tons submerged | ||
HMS Tactician was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P314 by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow, and launched on 29 July 1942.
Service
Tactician served in the Mediterranean and the Far East during her wartime career. Whilst operating against the Italians, she sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17 / Pia and the Italian sailing vessel Bice. She also torpedoed and damaged the Italian merchant Rosandra off the coast of Albania. The ship sank the following day.
On being transferred to the Pacific, commanded by Lt. Cdr. Anthony Collett, DSC, she continued to harass enemy shipping, sinking a small Japanese vessel and two Siamese sailing vessels before the end of the war. She took part in Operation Cockpit, where she rescued a downed US airman, Lt. D. C. Klahn, under fire.
A Pathe newsreel dated 1952 shows Tactician taking part in an exercise in the Sea of Japan. In it, the submarine is seen diving.
Tactician survived the war and continued in service with the navy, finally being scrapped at Newport on 6 December 1963.