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Submarine HMS H 44 (N 44)

21 Oct 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 44 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) conducted special trials / exercises off Rosyth. (1)

25 Oct 1940
HMS H 44 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) conducted special trials / exercises off Rosyth. (1)

29 Oct 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 44 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) conducted special trials / exercises off Rosyth after which she proceeded to Methill roads. (1)

31 Oct 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 44 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) departed Methill for Sheerness. She made the passage with a convoy. (1)

2 Nov 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 44 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) arrived at Sheerness where she was taken in hand for refit at the Sheerness Dockyard. (2)

Submarine HMS H 33 (N 33)

23 Nov 1940
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (3)

24 Nov 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (3)

26 Nov 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (3)

27 Nov 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (3)

3 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

9 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

10 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

11 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) proceeded from Tobermory to Oban. (4)

12 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) returned to Tobermory from Oban. (4)

14 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

17 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

20 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

21 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

24 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

26 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. Upon completion of these exercises she proceeded to Oban. (4)

27 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) returned to Tobermory from Oban. (4)

28 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

29 Dec 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (4)

1 Jan 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory. (5)

2 Jan 1941
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) departed Tobermory for Rothesay. (5)

3 Jan 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS H 33 (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) arrived at Rothesay. (5)

Submarine HMS Usk (i) (N 65)

19 Apr 1941
Around 1900B/19, HMS Usk (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) departed Malta for her 6th war patrol (2nd in the Mediterranean). She was ordered to patrol off Marettimo Island.

She was to proceed to position 35°41'N, 14°05'E and then proceed to the north west.

It was anticipated she would be in position 36°03'N, 13°15'E at 2030B/20.

En-route to the Marettimo area she was to pass to the south of Pantelleria. (6)

25 Apr 1941
HMS Usk (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) sent her last signal at 2100B/25. She reported that she was proceeding to patrol off Cape Bon, Tunisia or to the south of Cape Bon if required to do so. This was due to intense enemy A/S activity in the Marettimo area.

According to Italian sources she may have been sighted by the destroyer Aviere who reported a submarine 20 miles to the north of Marettimo at 0930B/24.

26 Apr 1941
HMS Usk (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) was ordered by Captain S.1's signal timed 1254B/26 to form a patrol line with HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN), HMS Utmost (Lt.Cdr. R.D. Cayley, DSO, RN), HMS Upholder (Lt.Cdr. M.D. Wanklyn, RN), HMS Ursula (Lt. A.J. Mackenzie, RN), HMS Upright (Lt. R.S. Brookes, DSC, RN) and HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. H.A.V. Haggard, RN).

HMS Usk was assigned an area from position 37°00'N, 11°00'E - 000° - 30 miles - 40 miles. She was also told that if necessary she could retire to the north-west. She was also ordered to remain north of 38.00'N until 0001B/27. She was also told that an enemy destroyer had been observed near a large patch of oil at 2025B/26.

27 Apr 1941
The Vichy French merchant vessel S.N.A. 7 (2679 GRT, built 1922) on her way to Sousse, was either torpedoed or mined near Cape Bon at 0720 hours on 27 April. If she was torpedoed, could this have been the work of HMS Usk (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN)? It is not impossible but, on 24 April, the Italian torpedo boat Simone Schiaffino was mined and sunk on a minefield about 7 miles north-east of Cape Bon and it was believed that S.N.A. 7 had been the victim of one of these mines. It is also probable that HMS Usk was lost on the same minefield as the Italians made no claim of having sunk an Allied submarine.

30 Apr 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
In a signal timed 1133B/30, the Senior Officers Submarines Malta, ordered HMS Usk (Lt. G.P. Darling, RN) and HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN) to leave patrol P.M./1 so as to arrive at Malta around 0600B/3.

HMS Usk which was not heard of since her signal timed 2100B/25, failed to arrive at Malta on 3 May 1941. She was declared overdue afteer having been 72 hours late on 6 May 1941 and was considered lost most likely due to being mined in the Cape Bon area. (7)

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