HMS Traveller (N48)
HMS "Traveller" (N48) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Scotts, Greenock and launched in August 1941. Career. "Traveller" spent most of her career serving in the Mediterranean. She was unsuccessful in most of her attacks, sinking the Italian merchantman "Albachiara", but launching failed attacks against the Italian merchant ship "Ezilda Croce", the Italian 'small light cruiser' "Cattaro" (the former Yugoslavian "Dalmacija"), the Italian tanker "Proserpina" (the former French "Beauce") and the Italian torpedo boats and . She also claimed to have attacked two so far unidentified submarines. "Traveller" left Malta  on 28 November 1942 for a patrol in the Gulf of Taranto. She carried out a reconnaissance of Taranto harbour for a Chariot human torpedo attack (Operation "Principal"). The submarine did not return from the operation and was reported overdue on 12 December. She probably struck an Italian mine on or about 4 December. During the War "Traveller" was adopted by the Borough of Leyton in London as part of "Warship Week". The plaque from this adoption is held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.