X-class submarine
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The X class was a World War II midget submarine class built for the Royal Navy during 1943–44. It was substantially larger than the original Chariot manned torpedo.
X24 on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, Hampshire
X25 underway
A hand-held, hydraulically powered, net cutter of the type used by X boat divers to cut through torpedo nets protecting harbours
The engine of X24
Operation Source
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Operation Source was a series of attacks to neutralise the heavy German warships – Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Lützow – based in northern Norway, using X-class midget submarines.
X-class submarine
…was HMS Varbel at the former Kyles Hydro Hotel at Port Bannatyne on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Their first deployment was Operation Source in September, 1943, an attempt to neutralise the heavy German warships based at Kåfjord, Nordkapp in Northern Norway. Six X-Craft were used but only…
Tirpitz c. 1941
Lt. Henty-Creer and the crew of X5
The grave of Lieutenant Lionel Barnett Whittam at the Commonwealth War Graves section of Tromsø's main cemetery