HMS Torbay (N79)
HMS Torbay (N79) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 9 April 1940. Torbay had an active career, serving mainly in the Mediterranean, although she also served in the Pacific Far East at the end of the war. Altogether she sank 17 merchant ships, totalling 38,000 tons, plus 5 warships and 24 sailing vessels, and was involved in an attack on Corfu harbour that won her captain, Lieutenant Commander (Lt. Cdr.) Anthony Miers, the Victoria Cross. Torbay was also involved in two incidents of war crimes. Service history Torbay was commissioned on 14 January 1941, under the command of Lt. Cdr. Anthony Miers. In March 1941 she sailed from Portsmouth on her first offensive patrol, to intercept the battleships and , which were heading for Brest after their raiding sortie in the North Atlantic. Unable to find them, Torbay was ordered to continue to Gibraltar, and, after another patrol in the Mediterranean, to join the 1st Flotilla at Alexandria. Mediterranean From there, Torbay operated for the next 12 months, sinking a number of ships (including the Italian submarine Jantina) and taking part in several special operations. Some of those