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Blogger posting about #navalhistory and #submarines

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

S (3rd Group) class submarine HMS/M Safari (P 211): Laid down at Cammell Laird Shipyard Birkenhead, England 05.06.40.

Home after 18 months of Mediterranean warfare. Fort Blockhouse 08.09.43.

[COPP Survey @copp_survey]

🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – for the first time in a live operation, COPP work with the crew of a 'chariot' human torpedo (📸 IWM A22114) to establish beach gradients in Sicily.
However, the details obtained by the chariot crew are judged 'inconclusive'. 1/2

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[Steve A Wenham @AWenham1]

Fort Blockhouse @NavyLookout @GosportTown @GosportCouncil

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HMS Alliance, true to the day she last sailed. @NatHistShips
@RNSubMuseum @PHDockyard

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@HiddenHistoryYT There had been a successful DSEA escape from HMS Poseidon in 1931

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

T (3rd Group) class submarine HMS/M Truncheon (P 353) A/Lt.Cdr. Robert Julian Clutterbuck, DSO, RN: Commissioned 25.05.45.

Purchased by Israel in 1968. She was the last operational T class, finally decommissioning in ‘77.

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@Shippers999 The phrase normalisation of deviance would seem to be appropriate. It was coined after the loss of a space shuttle in the mid 1980s to describe NASA policy.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

P 611 Class submarine HMS/M P 614 (P 614): Launched at Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness, England 24.05.39.

Turkish Oruç Reis class submarine Burak Reis being built by Vickers, requisitioned by the Admiralty at the beginning of the war.

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

On this day in naval history, 1939: HMS Seal (N37) was commissioned.

HMS Seal was one of six mine-laying submarines of the Grampus class built for the Royal Navy. During the Second World War, she became the only Allied submarine captured at sea by German forces. After her capture, she was commissioned into the German navy, the Kriegsmarine, under the designation UB. The vessel was one of several captured submarines operated by Germany during the conflict, and her seizure provided valuable intelligence that helped the Germans identify and rectify a major defect in their U-boat torpedoes.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

U class submarine HMS/M Unshaken (P 54) Lt. Richard Gatehouse, DSC, RN: Commissioned 21.05.42.

Built by Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness, England.

Returning from patrol 06.03.43.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

Life aboard HMS/M Taku (N 38).

Lt. A. J. W. Pitt, RN. The captain.

04.04.43.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

Life aboard HMS/M Taku (N 38).

Hands hauling in a cable.

Beirut 14.01.43.

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[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

T (1st Group) class submarine HMS/M Taku (N 38): Launched at Cammell Laird Shipyard Birkenhead, England 20.05.39.

Departing from Beirut for Malta in January’43.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

Life aboard HMS/M Taku (N 38).

Lt. (E) R. S. Bailey, RN, Engineer Officer.

Malta 04.02.43.

[Cdr George Ericson @CdrEricson]

Life aboard HMS/M Taku (N 38).

One of her ship’s company sewing another success bar to their Jolly Roger on returning to port after patrol.

Malta February 1943.

[COPP Survey @copp_survey]

🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP 6, recently arrived in Malta, carries out an exercise in Għajn Tuffieħa bay with the sub HMS Unseen and 'human torpedo' charioteers. (📸 IWM A 22114) 1/2

It doesn't go entirely to plan: the chariot sinks after launching.

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@DrHelenFry The Major’s “girlfriend”

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@MarkHay55822123 @RSSGBristol He attended the Rose Hill school in Tunbridge Wells.

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@HistoryUnter @christos_mak @KyleGHistory It is who he was working for that I am interested in. He wasn’t SOE as he isn’t mentioned in their files and he was based in the Italian run sector of Crete so he could be SIS or some other organisation.