HMS Tally-Ho (P317)
HMS Tally-Ho
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| Name: | HMS Tally-Ho |
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| Laid down: | 25 March 1941 |
| Launched: | 23 December 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 12 April 1943 |
| Motto: | (first - unofficial) Celeriter in hostem - official Celeriter ad hostem - 'Swiftly among the foe' |
| Fate: | Scrapped February 1967 |
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| Class and type: | T-class submarine |
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| Length: | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement: | 61 |
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HMS Tally-Ho was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P317 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank, and launched on 23 December 1942. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
While commanded by Captain Leslie W. A. Bennington, Tally-Ho served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank thirteen small Japanese sailing vessels, a Japanese coaster, the Japanese water carrier Kisogawa Maru, the Japanese army cargo ships Ryuko and Daigen Maru No.6, the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 2, and the Japanese auxiliary minelayer Ma 4. She also damaged a small Japanese motor vessel, and laid mines, one of which damaged the Japanese merchant tanker Nichiyoku Maru.
On 11 January 1944, Tally-Ho, then based out of Trincomalee, Ceylon spotted the Japanese light cruiser Kuma and destroyer Uranami on anti-submarine warfare exercises about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Penang. Tally-Ho fired a seven torpedo salvo at the Japanese cruiser from 1,900 yards (1,700 m), hitting her starboard aft with two torpedoes, and setting the ship on fire. Kuma sank by the stern in the vicinity of 05°26′N 99°52′E / 5.433°N 99.867°E.
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