HMS Tribune (N76)

HMS "Tribune" was a British T class submarine built by Scotts, Greenock. She was laid down on 3 March 1937 and was commissioned on 17 October 1939. HMS "Tribune" was part of the first group of T class submarines.

Career

"Tribune" started the war with operations in the North Sea and off the Scandinavian coast. She had a number of fruitless patrols, attacking an unidentified German submarine and merchant, the "U-56", the German tanker "Karibisches Meer" and the German merchant "Birkenfels", all without success.She had marginally better luck in the Mediterranean, damaging the French merchant "Dalny", which was beached to prevent her from sinking, and then damaging the now beached "Dalny" the next day. She also torpedoed and damaged the German tanker "Präsident Herrenschmidt", and attacked the Italian merchant "Benevento", but failed to hit her. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3486.html HMS Tribune] , Uboot.net]

HMS "Tribune" survived the war, and was sold for scrap in July 1947, and was broken up in November, by Ward, of Milford Haven.

References

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