Other Ships Named HMS Venturer-- Part 2: A Famous World War II Submarine

There was not another British ship name Venturer until 1943, during World War II (or, as the British call it, the Second World War).

**  HMS  Venturer (P68).  Launched in 1943 and lead submarine of the British "V" Class.  Sank the German submarine U-771 and more famously, the U-864 in what is regarded as the first time that one submarine purposely destroyed another submarine while both were submerged.

The submarine was sold to Norway in 1946, and renamed the HNoMS Ulstein and was scrapped in 1964.

I will write more about this in my Tattooed On My Soul:World War II blog today.

**  HMS Venturer.   Then there were three tenders of the HMS Flying Fox, the Bristol Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Division named HMS Venturer.  The MS Flying Fox was at first an actual ship, a 24-class sloop launched in 1918 and transferred to the British Naval reserve in 1920, but now moved ashore in a building.  The original HMS Flying Fox was scrapped in 1973.

--Brock-Perry