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HMS Tuna (N94) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy.She was laid down by Scotts, Greenock (in Scotland) and launched on 10 May 1940. She was equipped with German-built MAN Diesel engines and spent her career in World War II in western European waters, in the North Sea and off the west coast of France, and most famously taking part in Operation Frankton.
HMS Tuna has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to: HMS Tuna (1915), a torpedo boat purchased ca. 1915 and sold in 1920; HMS Tuma (1940), a storeship requisitioned 1940–1941; HMS Tuna (N94), a submarine commissioned in 1940 and scrapped in 1945
HMS Tuna (N94) HMS Turbulent (N98) HMS Turpin (P354) This page was last edited on 26 February 2013, at 18:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lieutenant Commander Richard Prendergast Raikes DSO (21 January 1912 – 24 May 2005) was an officer in the Royal Navy notable for being the commanding officer of the submarine HMS Tuna that launched the canoes during Operation Frankton in 1942. [1]
Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during World War II.The raid was carried out by a small unit of Royal Marines known as the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (RMBPD), part of Combined Operations, inserted by HMS Tuna captained by Lieutenant-Commander Dick Raikes who, earlier, had been awarded the DSO for ...
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HMS Tuna (N94), a submarine of the Royal Navy; Nebraska Highway 94, in the United States; Scania N94, a city bus This page was last edited on 11 ...
This category contains the Permit-class submarines of the United States Navy Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thresher/Permit class submarines . Pages in category "Permit-class submarines"