Name HMS Tantivy Commissioned 25 July 1943 Construction started 4 July 1942 Length 84 m | Laid down 4 July 1942 Fate sunk as target 1951 Launched 6 April 1943 | |
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Class and type British T class submarine Displacement 1,290 tons surfaced
1,560 tons submerged Builders John Brown & Company, Vickers-Armstrongs | ||
HMS Tantivy was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. It was built as P319 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank, and launched on 6 April 1943. So far it has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tantivy.
Service
Tantivy served in the Far East for much of its wartime career, where sit sank a Siamese sailing vessel, the Japanese merchant cargo ship Shiretoko Maru, the Japanese Communications Vessel No. 137, the Japanese barge No. 136 and the Japanese motor sailing vessel Tachibana Maru No.47, a Japanese tug, two Japanese coasters, a Japanese sailing vessel, the small Japanese vessels Chokyu Maru No.2, Takasago Maru No.3, and Otori Maru, as well as twelve small vessels that are unidentified (all pretty well undefended and peaceable). it also laid numerous mines.
It survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being sunk as an anti-submarine target in the Cromarty Firth in 1951.