Telegraphist P/SSX 28265 Frederick Roberts

Family details:
Son of Lily Roberts, of St. Helens, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. Not identified. Possibly redacted and living at 30 Orville Street, Sutton, St Helens.

HMS [i]Tigris[/i] (N63) was a T-Class submarine of the Royal Navy, commissioned on the 20th June 1940. Tigris had an eventful career:- 1941, HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Thorn about 25 nautical miles west off the Loire estuary. The Italian submarine Michele Bianchi is torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of Bordeaux, France. HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Richard off the Rolvsoy Fjord about 11 nautical miles north-east of Hammerfest, Norway. HMS Tigris torpedoes and heavily damages the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 1201 off the Rolvsoy Fjord. 1942 - The Italian submarine Porfido was torpedoed and sunk about 90 nautical miles north-north-east off Bone, Algeria by the British submarine HMS Tigris. 1943 - HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Genova in the Strait of Otranto about 25 nautical miles west of Saseno Island [u]The Sinking.[/u] [i]Tigris[/i] left Malta on 18 February 1943 to patrol off Naples. She was last sighted at 0730 on 24 February, 39 miles (63 km) from Capri. On the morning of the 27th, the German submarine chaser [i]UJ2210[/i], escorting a convoy six miles south east of Capri, made contact with a submarine and carried out three depth charge attacks, the third attack brought oil to the surface and the contact was noted to be stationary. A fourth attack of fifteen depth charges brought a huge bubble of air to the surface. On 6 March, [i]Tigris[/i] was ordered to Algiers but there was no reply to this signal. She failed to return to Algiers on 10 March 1943 and was declared overdue on that date. [i]Tigris[/i] was most likely the submarine sunk on 27 February by UJ-2210 commanded by Otto Pollmann. [center][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51391000/jpg/_51391104_tigrrsy.jpg[/img] [center][pic2]tpics/28265_Roberts_F.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The name of Telegraphist Frederick Roberts on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Photo courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]