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    HMS Truant (N68) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched on 5 May 1939. Truant had a relatively...
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  • 1991) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded HMS Truant, a T-class submarine, during World War II. Truant was one of the most successful of Britain's undersea...
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  • Paul (1993) Friend or Foe: Friendly Fire at Sea 1939-1945. (Pen and Sword). ISBN 978-0850523850 GB Mason HMS Clyde at naval-history.net Spooner, Tony (1996)...
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    the Group One boats (Taku, Thunderbolt, Tigris, Torbay, Tribune, Trident, Truant, and Tuna) were retrofitted with an eleventh external torpedo tube facing...
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    HMS Exmouth was an E-class destroyer flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion...
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    Tuna was part of a further three boats to be ordered, along with Triad and Truant, which were obtained from another shipbuilder. She was equipped with diesel...
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    Island. HMS Truant sank Yae Maur and Shunsei Maru in the Strait of Malacca. 5 April 1942: Japanese carrier planes sank HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire...
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    on 9 April, she was struck by a torpedo from the Royal Navy submarine HMS Truant and severely damaged. Unable to return to port, Karlsruhe was scuttled...
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    bombers the following day. Karlsruhe was sunk by the British submarine HMS Truant; only Köln survived the attack on Norway. After returning to Germany,...
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    followed by St Simon Stock Catholic School where he frequently played truant. Following school he became a postman, but developed a drink problem, consuming...
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