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H28 to H50 Page last Updated: 20-Dec-2007 Name Class Pennant Crew Built Builder Disposal Date Method H28 H H28, N28 22 26-Jun-18 Vickers Armstrong Barrow Oct-44 Scrap With 5th Flotilla at Gosport through 1920's and 1930's. Training Flotilla at Rothesay. Broken up at Troon Oct 1944. The only British submarine to have made patrols in both World Wars. H31 H H31, N31 22 16-Nov-18 Vickers Armstrong Barrow 24-Dec-41 War Loss 5th Flotilla at Gosport in 1920's and 30's. Training Flotilla at Rothesay but used for patrols. 18 Jul 40, (Lt. M.D. Wanklyn, RN) torpedoed and sank the German auxiliary patrol vessel UJ 126/Steiermark (422 GRT) in the North Sea north-west of the Island of Terschelling, Netherlands in position 53º28'N, 05º01'E. (Lt Frank Gibbs+), December 1941, in Bay of Biscay - 'overdue, presumed lost'. Sailed from Falmouth and left her escort around the 19-Dec-41 for Biscay patrol, 250 miles north of Cape Finisterre. Overdue on the 26-Dec-41, cause of loss unknown. Possibly German minefield or drifting British mines, or even foundering in a heavy sea - for which the H Class would have been ill-suited; lost with all hands. H32 H H32, N32 22 14-May-19 Vickers Armstrong, Barrow 1944 Scrap She was the first Royal Navy boat to be fitted with the ASDIC (Anti Submarine Detector Investigation Committee) underwater sensor system. With 5th Flotilla at Gosport through 1920's and 1930's. Training Flotilla at Rothesay. Broken up 1944. H33 H H33, N33 22 15-Apr-19 Cammell Laird Birkenhead 1944 Scrap With 5th Flotilla at Gosport through 1920's and 1930's. Training Flotilla at Rothesay but used for patrols off Brest Spring 1941. Returned to training duties for three more years. Lt. Chapman, writer of Submarine Torbay, was a C.O., as was the only New Zealand officer to command WW2 submarines, Lt Cdr C.P.Thode RNZNVR (also of Scythian). Broken up 1944. H34 H H34, N34 22 5-Nov-18 Cammell Laird Birkenhead 1945 Scrap With 5th Flotilla at Gosport through 1920's and 1930's. 30 Sep 39, (Lt. B.T. Simons, RN) fired two torpedoes at the German Type IIA U-boat U-3 15 nm north of Kinnaird Head. The torpedoes missed. Training Flotilla at Rothesay. Broken up July 1945. H43 H H43, N43 22 13-Oct-19 Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle 1945 Scrap Training Flotilla at Rothesay. Broken up July 1945. H44 H H44, N44 22 23-Mar-20 Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle 1945 Scrap 21 Jun 40, HMS H 44 (Lt. E.D. Norman, RN) torpedoed and sank the small Danish merchant Alfa (844 GRT) off Texel, Netherlands. Training Flotilla at Rothesay. Broken up July 1945. H49 H H49, N49 22 15-Jul-19 Beardmore, Dalmuir 17-Oct-40 War Loss 10-Dec-38 paid off into Reserve. Recommissioned Aug 1939 for training duties with the 5th Flotilla. May 1940 3rd Flotilla, Harwich. 16 Sep 40, at 0439, H49 (Lt. M.A. Langley, RN) fired 4 torpedoes at a large, 16 ship, convoy and 8 bunched ships were fired at. After 60 and 75 seconds two dull explosions were heard but no further explosions. It was assumed that two torpedoes hit and two missed and hit a sand bank. 'Breaking-up' noises were heard. It was assumed by the British that the tanker ILL was damaged but as she was in ballast she was able to absorb the hits without much damage. H49 (CO Lt. R E Coltart RN) sailed from Harwich 17-Oct-1940 with orders to patrol off Texel, on the Dutch coast. At 1510 on the 17th, west of Texel island, the submarine sighted a German anti-submarine flotilla of five vessels at a distance of 3000 yards; the flotilla also spotted the submarine. H49 immediately dived to 60 feet and depth charges began to fall around her. The submarine endured over two hours of depth charge attacks until 1850 when a large oil slick was sighted on the surface by the attacking vessels. Presumed sunk by Uj116 and Uj118. H50 H H50, N50 22 25-Oct-19 Beardmore, Dalmuir July 1945 Scrap 6th Flotilla at Portland through 1920's. Served throughout the war, mainly on training duties based at Rothesay, but carried out war patrols in Spring 1941.
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