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The Royal Navy initially used fleet carriers escorted by destroyers for hunter-killer groups. However as a result of Ark Royal being attacked unsuccessfully by U-39 on 14 September, followed by the loss of HMS Courageous by U-29, these incidents prompted the Royal Navy to withdraw its fleet carriers from anti-submarine patrols.
An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface combatants and merchant vessels. In the Soviet and Russian navies they were and are called "multi-purpose submarines". [ 1 ]
Hunter-killer groups, whose job was to actively seek out enemy submarines, as opposed to waiting for the convoy to come under attack. Later hunter-killer groups were centered around escort carriers. Huge construction programmes to mass-produce the transports and replace their losses, such as the American Liberty Ships.
HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878) is a long-range hunter-killer submarine (SSK) of the Royal Canadian Navy. She is the former Royal Navy Upholder -class submarine HMS Ursula (S42) , purchased from the British at the end of the Cold War.
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
The submarine force was cut back after the end of the war. The first British nuclear-powered submarine Dreadnought was launched in 1960, based around a U.S.-built nuclear reactor. This was complemented by the Valiant class from 1966, which used a new British-built Rolls-Royce PWR1 reactor. The UK's strategic nuclear deterrent was transferred to ...
On 30 April, General Belgrano was detected by the British nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine Conqueror. The submarine approached over the following day. On 1 May 1982, Admiral Juan Lombardo ordered all Argentine naval units to seek out the British task force around the Falklands and launch a "massive attack" the following day.
HMCS Chicoutimi is a Victoria-class long-range hunter-killer (SSK) submarine of the Royal Canadian Navy, originally built and operated by the Royal Navy as HMS Upholder. Shortly after being handed over by the United Kingdom to Canada she was involved in a partial flooding incident which resulted in a fire at sea.