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HMS Trenchant : From Chatham to the Banka Strait
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hezlet, Arthur.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hezlet, Arthur, 1914-2007.
- Hezlet, Arthur.
- Trenchant (Submarine).
- Sailors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Submarine warfare.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine--Great Britain--Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British--Biography.
- Sailors.
- Local Subjects:
- Hezlet, Arthur, 1914-2007.
- Sailors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Submarine warfare.
- Trenchant (Submarine).
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Pen and Sword, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is both the war memoir of a distinguished naval officer and the history of HMS Trenchant, a T Class submarine. Admiral Hezlet was appointed to command Trenchant from her completion in early 1944 until mid-1945 during which time she and her crew worked up, voyaged to the Far East and carried out five highly dangerous and successful operational patrols. On their arrival at Freemantle in July 1945, Trenchant had been at sea for 82 out of the last 94 days and covered 15,000 miles. More than that, she had sunk the Japanese cruiser Ashigara, the largest warship sunk by a British submarine, as w
- Contents:
- ""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I: Chatham""; ""II: Trials and Working Up""; ""III: The Voyage to the Far East""; ""IV: Our First War Patrol""; ""V: Our Second Patrol and the Sinking of U859""; ""VI: Our Third Patrol and the Chariot Operation at Phuket""; ""VII: Our Fourth Patrol and Wolf Pack. Tactics with Terrapin""; ""VIII: Our Final Patrol in the Malacca Straits""; ""IX: Colombo and the Passage to Australia""; ""X: The South-West Pacific and the Sinking of the Ashigara""; ""XI: Subic and the Passage back to Fremantle""
- ""XII: Fremantle and I Fly Home""""Epilogue""; ""Appendix""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783379347
- 1783379340
- OCLC:
- 854974574
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