HMS Regent (N41)
1930 Rainbow-class patrol submarine
HMS Regent was a Rainbow-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and was launched on 11 June 1930. She was lost with all hands after striking a mine on 18 April 1943.
Construction and career
Regent was commissioned for service in the 4th Submarine Flotilla on the China Station. She was deployed at Hong Kong until 1940. There Medway, the Royal Navy's first purpose-built submarine depot ship, supported her and her classmates, Rainbow, Regulus, and Rover. Lieutenant Commander Hugh Browne RN assumed command of Regent on 9 April 1939. Between April and May 1940, Regent and the other boats of the 4th Submarine Flotilla transferred to the 1st Submarine Flotilla, based in Alexandria, Egypt. There she received pennant N41. She initially laid mines off North Africa. From June to December, Regent deployed in the eastern Mediterranean with the 1st Flotilla.
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