HMS Vivid (P77) explained
-- submarines -->| Ship Country: | United Kingdom | | Ship Name: | HMS Vivid | | Ship Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Walker-on-Tyne | | Ship Laid Down: | 27 October 1942 | | Ship Launched: | 15 September 1943 | | Ship Commissioned: | 19 January 1944 | | Ship Identification: | Pennant number P77 | | Ship Fate: | Scrapped at Faslane, October 1950 |
| Ship Class: | V-class submarine | | Ship Length: | 204feet | | Ship Beam: | 15feet | | Ship Depth: | 15feet | | Ship Speed: | - 11.5lk=onNaNlk=on surfaced
- 9lk=onNaNlk=on
| | Ship Endurance: | - Surface: 4050nmi at 10kn (design)
- Submerged: 23nmi at 8kn or 170nmi at 2.5kn (design)
| | Ship Test Depth: | 200feet | | Ship Complement: | 33 | | Ship Armament: | 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tube. 1 × 3 in gun, 3 × 0.303 in machine guns |
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HMS Vivid was a
V-class submarine laid down in 1942 and launched in 1943 by
Vickers Armstrong in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the British
Royal Navy.
[1] [2] [3] She was launched in September 1943 and, under the command of Lieutenant John Cromwell Varley DSC, served with the
10th Submarine Flotilla based at Malta during the closing stages of the
Allied campaign in the Mediterranean sinking various German,
Greek and
Italian merchant ships off the coast of Greece.
[1] [2] During one of her sorties in 1944, Vivid sighted the requisitioned merchant ship SS Tanais 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) northwest of the islet of Dia on 9 June. Vivid fired a spread of four torpedoes at a range of 2,400 yards (2,200 m). Two hit Tanais, sinking her in just 12 seconds; between 425 and 1,000 people died in the sinking, including deported Cretan Jews and Italian prisoners of war.
Following a refit, HMS Vivid was transferred to the 2nd Submarine Flotilla in the Far East for one patrol in June 1945.[1] The vessel was paid off into Reserve in 1946 and scrapped at Faslane, Gare Loch in October 1950.[1]
Notes and References
- Web site: HMS Vivid (P 77) . uboat.net . 21 February 2014 .
- Web site: Vivid (P 77) . Boat Database . Submariners Association Barrow-in-Furness Branch . 24 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140303104754/http://www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BoatDB2/index.php?BoatID=531 . 3 March 2014 . dmy-all .
- Web site: NMM, vessel ID 397591. Warship Histories, vol iv. National Maritime Museum. 3 March 2014. dead. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041617/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_iv.pdf. 2 August 2011. dmy-all.
