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Battle
Honours
ARMADA
1588 - ORFORDNESS 1666 - PELAGOSA 1811 -
JUTLAND 1916
(All awarded to earlier ships.)
This
name has been used since the 16th century,
initially by
an 80-ton ship hired at
the time of the Armada and lastly by a
1913 destroyer sold in 1922. This
submarine had a tragic war career since
after eight patrols in the North Sea she
was sunk after a collision in fog with the
Norwegian freighter ATLE JARL when leaving
Blyth for her ninth patrol on 29th April
1940.
The
submarine sank within five minutes taking
the First Lieutenant and a seaman down
with her. The reason for her loss may have
hinged on delivery of a signal giving
details of the passage of a convoy off
Blyth during the period o sailing.
Survivors were rescued by boats from ships
in the convoy. She was commanded on
commissioning in 1938 by Lieut. Commander
S H Pinchin
RN who had been relieved by Lieutenant JFB
Brown in July 1939. The captain at time of
the sinking Lieutenant G E Hunt had been
in command only nine days when she was
lost.
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