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Nov. 28, 1940 the HMS Triton N-15 sailed from Malta for a patrol in the southern Adriatic Sea. Triton had been the first British warship to sink a vessel during World War 2, sadly the vessel was another British submarine. The Triton torpedoed and sank the HMS Oxley P-55 on Sept. 10, 1939 off the coast of Norway. Oxley became the first British submarine lost in the days old war. What happened to the Triton after she left Malta is still a mystery, her wreck has not been found to this day. It is thought that she became a victim of a mine. (It should be noted that this is always the first explanation for a lost boat.) Two years to the day later on Nov. 28, 1942 the HMS Traveller N-48 sailed from the same base at Malta and met the same fate, unknown. Traveller was to patrol in Taranto Bay and to do a recon patrol of the harbor in advance of a planned attack on the Italian fleet by Chariot's. The attack however would never happen and the It is interesting to note the other submarines lost on this date. |
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