George Stevenson Salt, RN
| Born | 16 Jan 1908 | ||
| Died | 15 Oct 1940 | (32) | HMS Triad |
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Warship Commands listed for George Stevenson Salt, RN
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HMS Triad (N 53) | Lt.Cdr. | Submarine | 15 Aug 1940 | 15 Oct 1940 (+) |
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Submarine HMS Triad (N 53)
18 Aug 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) is undocked. (1)
23 Aug 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) proceeded from Dundee to Rosyth. At Rosyth she is immediately docked in AFD 3 at the Rosyth Dockyard. (1)
24 Aug 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) is undocked. (1)
28 Aug 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) conducted exercises off Rosyth. (1)
29 Aug 1940
Around 1900A/29, HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) and HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. H.A.V. Haggard, RN) departed from Rosyth for Gibraltar. The submarines were escorted by HMS White Bear (Capt. R. Gill, RNR) until 1930/31 when HMS Arab (Lt. R.B. Stannard, RNR) took over escort duties until 0900/2. The submarines were escorted until 0900A/2, to the vicinity of the Scillies.
[As no log is available for this period it is not possible to display HMS Triad's daily positions (on a map).] (2)
6 Sep 1940
Around 1200A/6, HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) arrived at Gibraltar. (2)
11 Sep 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) departed from Gibraltar for her 12th war patrol (1st in the Mediterranean). She was ordered to patrol in the Tyrrhenian Sea to the South of 39°30'N.
[There is no patrol report or log available for this patrol. Details of this patrol are therefore not known.] (3)
2 Oct 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) ended her 12th war patrol at Malta. Most likely the patrol had been uneventful.
[There is no patrol report or log available for this patrol. Details of this patrol are therefore not known.] (4)
9 Oct 1940
HMS Triad (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Salt, RN) departed from Malta for her 13th war patrol.
Triad has been assigned an initial position of 38°36'N, 17°02'E and from there in a rectangle area of 30 x 40 nautical miles delimited approximately by:
(1) 38°24'N, 16°51'E,
(2) 38°48'N, 17°13'E,
(3) 38°25'N, 17°55'E,
(4) 38°01'N, 17°32'E.
Triad was due to arrive at Alexandria at sunset of 20 October 1940. Therefore she had to leave her patrol area late on 14 October.
For the patrol area of HMS Triad during this patrol see the map below. Also plotted on this map are two position of attacks by Italian submarines.
(5)
14 Oct 1940 (position 37.46, 17.35)
0014 hours the Italian submarine Santorre di Santarosa(*) (Capitano di Corvetta Guido Coscia) which has sailed from Messina for a patrol off Crete, sights a submarine at short range, one torpedo is fired but misses. The enemy submarine replies with one torpedo which also misses the Italian submarine on the port side (position: 37°46'N, 17°35'E). This is about 15 miles outside HMS Triad's patrol area but it is not impossible that she was the submarine involved.
(*) To my knowledge, no one has ever made the connection of this attack with HMS Triad (Platon Alexiades).
Sources
- ADM 173/16617
- ADM 199/1847
- ADM 199/1925
- ADM 199/2572
- ADM 199/1115
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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