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1.
Trump,
Tiptoe,
Rorqual
and Thorough.
2. Trenchant,
Thule,
Terrapin
and O24.
3. Tradewind,
Zwaardfisch, and O19.
4. Torbay,
Thrasher
and Trident.
5. Scythian,
Subtle,
Statesman,
Seadog
and later Sibyl
and Shalimar.
6. Clyde
and Severn
about to be paid off and scrapped, Rover,
Vivid,
Visigoth,
Vigorous,
Voracious,
Vox
and Virtue
for anti-submarine training.
7. This theory is not only this authors belief. See Roskills War
at Sea” Vol III Part II.
8. The Commanding Officers were, in fact, brothers.
9. The minelayer O19 had already been declared unfit for further
operations. Clyde
in the East Indies was to do one more special operation and was
then to follow her sister Severn
to East Africa for antisubmarine training and then paying off
and scrapping.
10. The torpedoes were individually aimed over one and a half
lengths. The first torpedo hit abreast Y turret, the next right
forward, the third amidships and the last two neatly filled in
the gaps.
11. As the coast seemed clear, members of the crew were allowed
a quick look. While this was going on the enemy sighted the periscope
and opened fire in salvoes with her anti-aircraft guns.
12. This was KXVIII.
13. The identity of these two ships, which were certainly sunk,
has not been ascerained because the Japanese records at the end
of the war, were poor.
14. The rapid end to the war was a surprise to all, however, and,
at the time, it was expected to continue for some time before
Japan was finally defeated.
15. In early May, the US command had said that they did not wish
to lay any more mines in the area.
16. Selene,
Spark,
Stygian,
Sidon
and Supreme.
17. Tudor,
Thule,
Trenchant,
Thorn,
O21 and O24.
18. Thrasher,
Shalimar,
Seadog,
Sibyl
and the newly arrived Scorcher
and Vivid
and Vigorous
which, although they had been used operationally, were really
for anti-submarine training.
19. Indomitable, Venerable, Swiftsure, Euryalus with destroyers
and minesweepers.
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20. Trump,
Tiptoe,
Taciturn
and Stubborn.
21. Taken from the table in “Submarines and Sea Power”
by the same author.
22. Two more were lost in the Atlantic.
23. The American Fleet type needed ten fathoms to submerge at
all at periscope depth while the British T and S-classes needed
eight and a half fathoms.
24. British results in the Mediterranean show 0.32% of attacks
to have been successful. American results in the Pacific also
show 0.32% of attacks to have hit. Both these figures are for
ships sunk, not damaged.
25. Of those sunk by the Japanese, two were mined, one sunk by
a destroyer and another by a Japanese submarine.
26. Lieutenant Bull Clyde
Lieutenant Oakley Rorqual
Lieutenant Commander Hobson Seadog
Lieutenant Commander Meeke Shalimar
Lieutenant Commander JD Martin Solent
Lieutenant Commander Sherwood Spiteful
Lieutenant Troup Strongbow
Lieutenant Anderson Sturdy
Lieutenant Brunner Terrapin
Lieutenant Commander Ainslie Thrasher
Lieutenant Commander Mars Thule
27. Lieutenant Commander Kelly Seascout
Lieutenant Brunner Terrapin
Lieutenant Spender Sirdar
Lieutenant Commander KH Martin Sleuth
Lieutenant Commander Bulkeley Statesman
Lieutenant Commander Davies Stubborn
Lieutenant Commander Clarabut Stygian
Lieutenant Commander Jay Tiptoe
Lieutenant Commander Norman Torbay
Lieutenant Commander Catlow Trump
28. Lieutenant Thode Scythian
Lieutenant Commander Newton Selene
Lieutenant Commander Kent Spark
Lieutenant Commander Andrew Subtle
Lieutenant Commander Stanley Taciturn
Lieutenant Chandler Thorough
Lieutenant Nash Tradewind
Lieutenant Porter Tudor
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