Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS P48.
- P48, a P-class patrol boat launched in 1917 and sold in 1923.
- P48, a U-class submarine launched in June 1942 and sunk by Italian torpedo boats on Christmas Day 1942.
References [link]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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HMS P48 (1942)
HMS P48 was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness.
The submarine departed from Malta on her last patrol, on 23 December 1942 under the command of Lieutenant M.E. Faber. She was sunk with the loss of her entire crew two days later whilst attacking an Italian convoy in the Gulf of Tunis heading towards Tunis. The submarine was depth charged by two Italian torpedo boats, Ardente and Ardito at position 37º15'N, 10º30'E, north-west of the island of Zembra. The submarine was officially declared overdue on 5 January 1943.
This vessel and her crew were honored and immortalized by the nephew of one of the lost sailors (Lt. Stephen E. Spring Rice, RNVR) in the song "One of Our Submarines" by Thomas Dolby.
