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HMS Traveller in the Gareloch (southwest Scotland), in April 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Traveller
Builder	Scotts, Greenock
Laid down	17 January 1940
Launched	27 August 1941
Commissioned	10 April 1942
Identification	Pennant number N48
Fate	Sunk on 4 December 1942
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General characteristics
Class and type	British T class submarine
Displacement	1,090 tons surfaced 1,575 tons submerged
Length	275 ft (84 m)
Beam	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Draught	16.3 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion	Two shafts Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
Speed	15.25 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced Nine knots (20 km/h) submerged
Range	4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced
Test depth	300 ft (91 m) max
Complement	61
Armament	Six internal forward-facing 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Two external forward-facing torpedo tubes Three external backward-facing torpedo tubes Six reload torpedoes 1 x 4-inch (102 mm) deck gun Three anti-aircraft machine guns

HMS Traveller (N48) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Scotts, Greenock and launched in August 1941.

Career

Traveller spent most of her career serving in the Mediterranean. She was unsuccessful in most of her attacks, sinking the Italian merchantman Albachiara, but launching failed attacks against the Italian merchant ship Ezilda Croce, the Italian 'small light cruiser' Cattaro (the former Yugoslavian Dalmacija), the Italian tanker Proserpina (the former French Beauce) and the Italian torpedo boats Castore and Ciclone. She also claimed to have attacked two so far unidentified submarines.

Traveller left Malta on 28 November 1942 for a patrol in the Gulf of Taranto. She carried out a reconnaissance of Taranto harbour for a Chariot human torpedo attack (Operation Principal). The submarine did not return from the operation and was reported overdue on 12 December. She probably struck an Italian mine on or about 4 December.

During the War Traveller was adopted by the Borough of Leyton in London as part of Warship Week. The plaque from this adoption is held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.

References

1. HMS Traveller, Uboat.net
2. Submarine losses 1904 to present day Archived 8 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, RN Submarine Museum, Gosport
3. Warship Weeks: Adopting Naval Vessels in World War Two | Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

Publications

• Caruana, Joseph (2012). "Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII". Warship International. LXIX (4): 357–364. ISSN 0043-0374.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) . Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.

v t e T-class submarines
Royal Navy	1st Group Taku Talisman Tarpon Tetrarch Thetis Thistle Thunderbolt Tigris Torbay Triad Tribune Trident Triton Triumph Truant Tuna 2nd Group Tempest Thorn Thrasher Traveller Trooper Trusty Turbulent 3rd Group P311 Tabard Taciturn Tactician Talent (P322) Talent (P337) Tally-Ho Tantalus Tantivy Tapir Tarn Taurus Telemachus Templar Teredo Terrapin Thermopylae Thorough Thule Tiptoe Tireless Token Totem Tradewind Trenchant Trespasser Truculent Trump Truncheon Tudor Turpin Cancelled Thor Tiara Theban Threat Talent (P343)
Israeli Navy	Dakar (ex-Totem) Dolphin (ex-Truncheon) Leviathan (ex-Turpin)
Royal Netherlands Navy Zwaardvisch class	Dolfijn (ex-Taurus) Tijgerhaai (ex-Tarn) Zeehond (ex-Tapir) Zwaardvisch (ex-Talent)
Preceded by: Grampus class Followed by: U class
List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1942
Shipwrecks	1 Dec: HMAS Armidale 2 Dec: Lupo, HMS Quentin 3 Dec: Empire Dabchick, HMS Penylan 4 Dec: Muzio Attendolo, HMS Traveller 6 Dec: USS Grebe 7 Dec: Ceramic 8 Dec: U-254, U-611 9 Dec: I-3, HMS Marigold 11 Dec: HMS Blean 12 Dec: HMS P222, Teruzuki 14 Dec: Canberra Maru 15 Dec: U-626 16 Dec: USS S-49 17 Dec: HMS Firedrake 18 Dec: HMS Partridge, Tenryū 21 Dec: I-4 23 Dec: Sperrbrecher 138 25 Dec: HMS P48 26 Dec: U-357 27 Dec: U-336 28 Dec: Choyo Maru 29 Dec: USS Wasmuth 30 Dec: HMS Fidelity 31 Dec: HMS Achates, HMS Bramble, Friedrich Eckoldt, USS Rescuer Unknown date: HMS P311
Other incidents	7 Dec: USS R-16 9 Dec: HMS Porcupine 12 Dec: Empire Centaur, Tannenfels 14 Dec: HMS Argonaut 19 Dec: Donau 21 Dec: USS S-35 25 Dec: Nankai Maru, Uzuki
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