HMS Tantivy (P319)

HMS "Tantivy" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P319" by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank, and launched on 6 April 1943. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Tantivy".

ervice

"Tantivy" served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank the a Siamese sailing vessel, the Japanese merchant cargo ship "Shiretoko Maru", the Japanese Communications Vessel "No. 137", the Japanese barge "No. 136" and the Japanese motor sailing vessel "Tachibana Maru No.47", a Japanese tug, two Japanese coasters, a Japanese sailing vessel, the small Japanese vessels "Chokyu Maru No.2", "Takasago Maru No.3", and "Otori Maru", as well as twelve small vessels that are unidentified. She also laid numerous mines.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being sunk as an anti-submarine target in the Cromarty Firth in 1951. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3518.html HMS Tantivy] , Uboot.net]

References

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