HMS Taku (N38)
HMS "Taku" was a British T class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 18 November 1937 and was commissioned on 3 October 1940. Career. "Taku" served in home waters and the Mediterranean. In April 1940, she mistook HMS "Ashanti" for a German destroyer and fired several torpedoes at her. All the torpedoes missed. In an attack on a German convoy in May, she damaged the German torpedo boat , and in November, launched a failed attack on the German tanker "Gedania". Assigned to the Mediterranean in 1941, she scored numerous kills, including the  Italian merchantmen "Cagliari" and "Silvio Scaroni", the Italian passenger/cargo ship "Caldea", the German munitions transport "Tilly L. M. Russ", the Italian auxiliary minesweeper "Vincenso P.", the Italian tankers "Arca" and "Delfin", and the Greek sailing vessels "Niki", "Lora" and a small vessel which was unidentified. She also attacked, but failed to hit the German merchant ship "Menes" and the Italian tanker "Cerere". Reassigned to operate off the Scandinavian coast in 1944, "Taku" sank the German merchantmen "Rheinhausen" and "Hans Bornhofen", and badly damaged the German freighter "Harm Fritzen". In March she attacked a convoy, but missed her target, the  ex-Norwegian "Kriegsmarine" transport "Moshill". "Taku" struck a mine in April 1944, and was damaged. After the end of the war, she was sold for scrap in November 1946 and broken up in South Wales.