HMS Trenchant: From Chatham to the Banka Strait

The decorated Royal Navy submariner documents the history of the submarine he commanded during World War II.

This is both the war memoir of a distinguished naval officer and the history of HMS Trenchant, a T Class submarine. Admiral Hezlet was appointed to command Trenchant from her completion in early 1944 until mid–1945 during which time she and her crew worked up, voyaged to the Far East and carried out five highly dangerous and successful operational patrols. On their arrival at Free...