I have been researching the history of HMS P48, a WW2 U class Submarine. Constructed by Vickers at Barrow, Inverness, P48 was assigned to the 8th Flotilla, in the Mediterraean, during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. Historical setting – Casablanca – Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman – sets the scene.

Later, billeted to Malta, the P48 patrolled the Marrittimo line, but was lost to depth charges from Italian destroyers during an attack on an Axis (German and Italian) shipping convoy in the Straits of Tunis.

Today, the P48 rests at 200 meters, 16 nautical miles North West of Zembra Island, with its crew, including my Uncle, Able Seaman (Sound Detector) Reginald Meluish of Cardiff Wales – 22 yo.

If you have information about the P48, that you would like to share, possibly a family connection, I am very interested in hearing from you.