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HMS ''Vandal'' (P64) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, yard number 838. The submarine had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all 37 onboard just four days after commissioning.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 HMS/M ''Vandal'' )〕 ==Loss== The submarine, under the command of Lieutenant James S. Bridger, was lost whilst carrying out a three-day-long working up exercise following commissioning. The submarine was last seen leaving her anchorage on 24 February 1943 at Lochranza, in the North of the Isle of Arran before her rediscovery in December 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= HMS ''Vandal'' (P64) )〕 She had only just joined the Third Submarine Flotilla in Holy Loch, a major submarine base during the Second World War used extensively for trials and exercises. There were initially conflicting reports over the possible position of the lost submarine, one submarine reported seeing a smoke candle two and a half miles (5 km) north of Inchmarnock, and another reported hearing hull tapping in a similar area. However a spotter plane reported a large oil slick about 2 miles (4 km) north of Arran (15 kilometres from Inchmarnock). An inquiry at the time of her loss ignored the report from the spotter plane and concluded that the submarine had sunk during the deep dive she was scheduled to perform on that day, somewhere north of Inchmarnock. At the time Prime Minister Winston Churchill demanded a full report on the loss of the ''Vandal'' and asked if the submarine had been recovered. The reply from Flag Officer Submarines repeated the mistaken assumption that the ''Vandal'' lay in deep waters off Inchmarnock, where salvage would be impossible. In 1994 the Scottish Branch of the Submariners Association finally persuaded the Navy to search the area north of Arran where a number of trawlers had reported their nets being snagged by an underwater object. A Royal Navy expedition aboard HMS ''Hurworth'' finally located the wreck in June 1994,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Protected wrecks in the UK )〕 300 feet (100 m) below the surface 1.5 miles (3 km) northwest of Loch Ranza, roughly where the spotter plane had first reported the presence of an oil slick. The wreck lies in pitch darkness on a muddy slope 100 metres down with a 35 degree list to port. Her 12 pounder forward gun remains covered with a trawler’s net, and the brass letters VANDAL are clearly visible.〔( Arran Banner )〕 There was only one survivor of ''Vandal'' The ship was originally named HMS ''Unbridled''. Before taking command of what was to be his first and last boat, skipper James Bridger assembled his crew on the jetty at Barrow, to inform them that she would henceforth be officially known as ''Vandal''. This went against a long-held maritime tradition that to change the name of a ship risks bringing bad luck upon it and the crew.〔( News archive of the Dunoon Observer )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Vandal (P64)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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