HMS Tactician (P314)

HMS "Tactician" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P314" by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 29 July 1942.

ervice

"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, she continued to harass enemy shipping, sinking a small Japanese vessel and two Siamese sailing vessels before the end of the war.

"Tactician" survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Newport on 6 December 1963. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3507.html HMS Tactician] , Uboot.net]

References

*"Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day", by Robert Hutchinson
*Colledge