H.M.S. Submarine Truculent 

H.M.S. Truculent ( ex P92 ex P315 ) of the "T" Trident class was built at Barrow 12-09-1942. 
Her displacement was 1090 tons 
Length: 275'   Breadth: 26' 7" 
Armament: one 4" gun, one 20 mm Oerlikon, three Vickers machine guns. 
In addition she had eight bow and three stern torpedoes. 

She served in the three main war theatres. On 04-05-1943 she sank the German U 308 north of the Faeroe Islands. In September 1943 she towed one of the midget subs for the raid on the German battle ship Tirpitz. On the 26th of June she was in the Malacca strait. She had on board a Dutch Naval officer to be landed on the east coast of Sumatra for intelligence. In the afternoon a Japanese convoy came into sight. A freighter followed by a troop transport and two tankers, protected by two corvettes. Lt. Cdr. Maydon of the Truculent attacked with torpedoes and sank the transport. Also the freighter was sunk and later one of the corvettes. Depth charges were dropped by the bomber and Truculent had to break off the action because of damage she sustained. This also meant the end of her initial operation and she returned to her base. 

On 12-01-1950 Truculent had a collision with the Swedish tanker Divina and sank in the Thames Estuary with the loss of 10 lives. She was salved on 14-03-1950 and scrapped two months later on 08-05-1950. 

NOTE: As laid down by the Geneva Convention, ships transporting POWs had to be marked with the Red Cross emblem. But the Japanese did not recognize these rules of war, so the ship was not marked and thus became a legitimate target.