HMS Venturer (P68)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Venturer |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 25 August 1942 |
| Launched: | 4 May 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 19 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946 |
| Identification: | Pennant number P68 |
| Fate: | Sold to Norway |
 Norway
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| Name: | HNoMS Utstein |
| Acquired: | 1946 |
| Struck: | January 1964 |
| Fate: | Broken up |
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| Class and type: | V-class submarine |
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| Length: | 206 ft (63 m) |
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| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Complement: | 37 |
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HMS Venturer was a Second World War British submarine of the V class. She sank two German U-boats and five merchant ships during the war. Following the war, the boat was sold to Norway and was renamed HNoMS Utstein. She was discarded in 1964.
Venturer was the lead boat of the British V-class submarine, a development of the successful U class. She was built at the Vickers Armstrong yard in Barrow-in-Furness. Construction commenced in August 1942 and she was launched eight months later in May 1943. Venturer was commissioned on 19 August 1943.
On completing trials and working-up, Venturer commenced operations patrolling the Norwegian coast for coastal traffic and U-boats leaving or entering base.
She was successful on several occasions, sinking three Axis vessels during 1944.
She also sank the German submarine U-771 on 11 November 1944 7 nautical miles (13 km) east of Andenes, Norway, off the Lofoten Islands.
Her most famous mission, however, was her eleventh patrol out of the British submarine base at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, under the command of 25-year-old Jimmy Launders, which included the only time in the history of naval warfare that one submarine intentionally sank another while both were submerged.
Sent to the Fedje area, Venturer was then ordered on the basis of Enigma decrypts to seek, intercept and destroy U-864 which was in the area. U-864 was carrying a cargo of 65 tonnes of mercury and Messerschmitt Me 262 Junkers Jumo 004B jet engine parts to Japan, a mission code-named Operation Caesar.
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