HMS Perseus
Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Perseus | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | submarine | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | War action | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Conflict | World War II | Wikidata P607 conflict |
| Sea / ocean | Ionian Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Greece | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 8 km from land |
| Position | 37.9000, 20.9000 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
HMS Perseus was a British Parthian-class submarine built in 1929 and lost in 1941 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes.
At the start of the war she was operating under the command of Commander Peter Bartlett on the China Station as part of the 4th Submarine Flotilla, together with the other members of her class. This continued until August 1940 when they were reassigned to the Mediterranean, where part of their duties were the ferrying of supplies between Alexandria and the besieged island of Malta. Perseus underwent a refit at Malta from October until April 1941.
Attached to the 1st Submarine Flotilla based in Alexandria, and under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Edward Christian Frederick Nicolay DSO RN (see Nicolay (family)), she sank the 3,867-ton Italian tanker Maya 5 nautical miles (9 km) south of Tenedos on 5 September 1941, and on 2 October, the 2,086-ton merchant ship Castellon west of Benghazi. It was as a result of these actions that Commander Nicolay was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
Location
- Recorded position: 37.9000, 20.9000 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Ionian Sea
- Nearest coast: Greece
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Perseus (N36) (revision 1376001539), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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