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1.
Captain Voelcker was relieved at Blyth in command of the Sixth
Submarine Flotilla in March by Commander GC Phillips DSO RN and
took over the Maidstone
to form the Eighth Flotilla at Gibraltar.
2. Details of these attacks have been lost.
3. This was one of the first occasions on which the new flashless
cordite was used.
4. Captain SW Roskill RN in “The War at Sea”.
5. Only two submarines were lost in the Mediterranean during the
same period.
6. Thetis had been lost on trials, but was being salvaged.
7. These new U-class differed from the three pre-war submarines
in that the two external torpedo tubes were omitted. It had never
been
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found
possible to fire a salvo of six torpedoes without breaking surface.
A Q tank forward of amidships had been included in the design
but even so it was considered that the four internal tubes would
be sufficient and this would allow four reloads to be carried
as well as a gun. The external torpedo tubes had already been
ordered and they
were used as a single stern tube for the new S-class and a third
stern tube for the new T-class building, the midship tubes having
been turned round to face aft. These tubes were also used to give
Severn
and Clyde
a pair of stern torpedo tubes.
8. These boats were cancelled later in 1941.
9. There was, because of superstition, no P213.
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