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Scuba Diving in Puglia, Italy, Europe
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Dive Site: HMS Regent
Location: Barletta, Puglia, Italy, Europe
Description: Wreck of a British submarine
Length: 40 metres (130 feet)
Depth: 35 metres (115 feet)
Visibility: 5 - 25 metres (15 - 80 feet)
Rating: *****
Known as the HMS Regent, in reality a small Italian submarine used in the last part of WWII as tanker and minefield signal.
Stefano Di Cagno, IT PDIC
The HMS Regent was documented and honoured by RN memorial service over the site in 2003. A DVD has been made by Italian divers 'Mr Diver' operating out of Bisceglie. My uncle was warrant officer RV Baker lost on 16th April 1943. I am now involved with tracing 3 or 7 known escapees fate from the submarine.
Ron Johns
My great uncle was Leading Stoker David Howard Imison on board this boat (HMS Regent) when it sunk in 1943. I am trying to trace any photos or more information about this boat and its crew prior to its loss. Please contact dive site directory if you can help me in any way. Many thanks.
Carrie Wilson
My grandfather was chief engine room artificer, Willian or Bill 'Trixie' Trice. I have heard about 4 bodies found off HMS Regent and would be interested if any one has any more detail.
Dick Trice
My great uncle was Able Seaman Robert Harvey, the RN Submarine Musium. I have a few photos of Regent in Malta before her last voyage. As far as I know she was a British built vessel, not Italian as mention in the dive report above.
Garry Prismall
My father, Benjamin William Foster, died on the HMS Regent. He was 25 years old when he died.
Anne Foster Angelou
My great uncle was Telegraphist Sydney A. A. Cox and I would wish that this wreck is treated with the utmost respect and that no artefacts are removed from what is in effect a war grave.
Robert Jack
My mother was engaged to Len Lipscombe who died on HMS Regent at the time of the sinking by the mine explosion. Any information, pictures on Len or the HMS Regent would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone have information concerning the DVD made by the Italian divers who discovered the wreck of HMS Regent?
I have seen a couple of still photographs but a DVD would be invaluable.
Trevor Sutton
My uncle was on HMS Regent when it was sunk, his name was Robert William Brown age 21, he was a stoker.
Sheila Ozanne
My father Raymond Clifford was the Chief Petty Officer on the Regent when she sank on April 18th, 1943. Concerning the four bodies which were found several days after the sinking, I enquired to The Admiralty what happened to these and was told they were buried at sea, which I find hard to believe in war time. May they rest in peace and I hope no divers take any artifacts from this war grave.
Sylvia Clifford Vaughan
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