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Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The 48-foot (15 m) yacht was built at Shoreham-by-Sea , West Sussex in England and has previously carried the names Betty , Alciope , and Escape .
While commanded by Captain Leslie W. A. Bennington, Tally-Ho served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank thirteen small Japanese sailing vessels, a Japanese coaster, the Japanese water carrier Kisogawa Maru, the Japanese army cargo ships Ryuko and Daigen Maru No.6, the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 2, and the Japanese auxiliary minelayer Ma 4.
Tally-Ho was campaigning in the strait, where she sank several axis vessels. Bennington was also cruising on the surface, patrolling for Japanese shipping, when she sighted UIT-23 in the daytime. Tally-Ho attacked at full speed. Tally-Ho and UIT-23 were headed straight for one another when they both fired a spread of torpedoes. [1]
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1944 Ship State Description Ryuei Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The Standard Wartime Type 1TM tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea north west of Miri, Borneo by USS Kingfish ( United States Navy). 46 crew were killed
UIT-23 sailed for France on 15 February 1944 with 135 tonnes of rubber and 70 tonnes of tin, and was torpedoed three days later by HMS Tally-Ho. [4] There were 14 survivors from the crew of forty. [5]
HMS Tally-Ho. The action of 11 January 1944 was a minor naval action that resulted in the sinking of the light cruiser Kuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy submarine HMS Tally-Ho. Kuma was being escorted by the destroyer Uranami about 10 nmi (12 mi; 19 km) north-west of Penang, Malaya.
A local TV news crew went undercover to document the event. “It’s horrible what has happened to my husband,” Saunders’ widow, Elsie Saunders, told NBC News at the time. “I only consented ...
In early 1944, Uranami sortied from Singapore with the cruiser Kuma on a troop transport run to Mergui and Penang, and returned alone to Singapore with the survivors of the torpedoed Kuma, which had been sunk by HMS Tally-Ho on 11 January 1944.