*British, WW2, HMS Truculent (P315) – Original Photograph and Model of Triton Class Submarine*
Approximate Dimensions:
Model: 16.5cm x 2cm
Resin Base: 18.9cm x 4.4cm,
Model + Base: 3cm tall
Photograph: 25.4cm x 16.5cm
An unnamed WW2 model of a Submarine, likely Triton Class, mounted on a resin base. Accompanied by an original photograph of HMS Truculent, a British T-class submarine. This photograph originally formed part of the Lou Britton British Submarine Collection, which was acquired by the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport in 2007. HMS Truculent was a British T-class submarine, built as P315 by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 12 September 1942. Funded by Glossop residents in Derbyshire, who raised £175,000, she sank nine enemy vessels during World War II.
Truculent served in the Pacific, sinking the Japanese cargo ship Yasushima Maru, the Harugiku Maru (a POW transport), and five sailing vessels. She also laid mines, one damaging the Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka. Earlier in the war, she sank U-308 and participated in Operation Source, towing midget submarine X-6 for attacks on German battleships.
On 12 January 1950, Truculent collided with the Swedish oil tanker Divina in the Thames Estuary, sinking shortly after. Of the 76 aboard, 64 perished, many succumbing to freezing conditions after escaping. The incident led to the introduction of the “Truculent light,” a bow-mounted all-around white light for submarines. Truculent was salvaged, decommissioned, and scrapped in May 1950. The disaster coincided with the release of the film Morning Departure, a tribute to Royal Navy submariners.
The T-class submarines, designed in the 1930s, were the Royal Navy’s standard ocean patrol submarines. Of 53 built, they were active in the North Sea, Mediterranean, and Far East, despite limited opportunities to disrupt German shipping early in the war due to heavily mined waters and scarce targets.
*Condition*
Good used condition. Minor marks to the model commensurate with age and service, some chips to resin base. Please see photographs as part of the condition report.
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