HMS Tudor (P326) explained

HMS Tudor was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P326 at Devonport Dockyard, and launched on 23 September 1942. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tudor, after the Tudor period or Tudor dynasty.

Service

Tudor served in the Far East for much of her career in World War II, where she sank five Japanese sailing vessels, four Japanese coasters, and another Japanese vessel, as well as an unidentified sailing vessel north of Sumatra.

During the war Tudor was adopted by the Borough of Bridgend as part of Warship Week. The plaque from this adoption is held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.^[1]

She survived World War II. On 23 April 1949, Tudor arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia to begin a three-month tour in Canadian waters helping train Canadian surface vessels in anti-submarine warfare.^[2] Tudor returned to the UK in July 1949, relieved by .^[3] The submarine was sold for scrap on 1 July 1963 and broken up at Faslane.^[4]

References

• Book: Akermann, Paul. Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955. reprint of the 1989. 2002. Periscope Publishing. Penzance, Cornwall. 1-904381-05-7.
• Book: Bagnasco, Erminio . Submarines of World War Two . 1977 . Naval Institute Press . Annapolis, Maryland . 0-87021-962-6.
  • Book: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Chesneau. Roger. Conway Maritime Press. Greenwich, UK. 1980. 0-85177-146-7.
• Book: Kemp, Paul J.. The T-class Submarine: The Classic British Design. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1990. 1-55750-826-7.
• Book: McCartney, Innes. Oxford, UK. British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. 129. 2006. Osprey. 1-84603-007-2.

Notes and References

1. http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_Warshipweeks.htm Warship Weeks: Adopting Naval Vessels in World War Two | Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
2. Submarine on Loan . The Crowsnest . King's Printer . May 1949 . 1 . 7 . 2.
3. The Year in Review . The Crowsnest . King's Printer . December 1949 . 2 . 2 . 2–4.
4. Web site: HMS Tudor (P 326) . uboat.net . 20 July 2016.