HMS Thule (P325)

HMS "Thule" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P325" at Devonport Dockyard, and launched on 22 October 1942. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Thule", after Thule, the mythological name for a Northern island.

ervice

"Thule" served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank thirteen junks, two lighters and five sampans with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca in a twelve day period between 17 December 1944 to 29 December 1944. She also attacked a submarine, probably the Japanese RO-113 and believed she had sunk it, but "Thule's" torpedoes exploded prematurely and the submarine escaped unharmed. She went on to sink a further five sailing vessels and three coasters, as well as laying a number of mines.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Inverkeithing on 14 September 1962. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3510.html HMS Thule] , Uboot.net]

References

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