her a little more than a year later. For the part they played in preventing Tirpitz sailing from Norway, Lieutenants Place and Cameron were each awarded the Victoria Cross.
Six further X-craft, X20 to X25, were built in 1945, five of which were scrapped at the end of the war. The sixth, X22, was lost in a collision with HM Submarine Syrtis in the Pentland Firth. None of these X-craft were built at Vickers. In 1954 a further 4 X-craft, X51-54, were built by Vickers.
XT CLASS
During 1943 and 1944, Vickers built six XT-craft submarines for training purposes. Having an endurance of only 500 miles at 4 knots, the XT-boats were a simplified X5 class submarine -
