HMS Safari (P211)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 5th June 1940 |
| Launched: | 18 November 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 14 March 1942 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap, sunk on tow to shipbreakers on the 8 January 1946 |
| Stricken: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 814-872 tons surfaced, 990 submerged |
| Length: | 217 feet (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23.5 feet (7.1 m) |
| Draught: | 11 feet (3.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 14.75 knots (27 km/h) surfaced, 8 knots (15 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 48 officers and men |
| Armament: | one three-inch (76 mm) gun, one 20 mm antiaircraft gun; three .303 machine (~7.7 mm) guns, seven 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, six forward, one aft, 13 torpedoes |
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HMS Safari was launched in November 1941, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead.
She spent most of World War II in the Mediterranean Sea and had a very successful time sinking many Italian ships. She is the subject of a popular book on Submarines "Crash Dive"
On the 8th of January 1946 she was being towed to the breakers yard to be scrapped when she sank in heavy seas with no crew on board. Today she is one of the best submarine dives in the English Channel, she lies on a rock seabed at a depth of 44m. Her brass conning tower has been removed as has the nose cone so the outer doors of the Torpedo tubes are visible.
[edit] See also
| S-class submarine |
| First Group |
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| Second Group |
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Sealion | Salmon | Shark | Snapper | Spearfish | Sterlet | Sea Devil | Sunfish | Seawolf |
| Third Group |
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Saracen | Satyr | Safari | Sanguine | Saga | Sahib | Sceptre | Scythian | Scotsman | Scorcher | Sea Scout | Seneschal | Sentinel | Selene | Sea Dog | Sea Nymph | Sea Rover | Seraph | Shakespeare | Shalimar | Sibyl | Sickle | Simoom | Surf | Stubborn | Sirdar | Sidon | Sleuth | Solent | Splendid | Spiteful | Sportsman | Spearhead | Spur | Springer | Spark | Spirit | Stoic | Storm | Stonehenge | Strongbow | Statesman | Sturdy | Stratagem | Stygian | Supreme | Subtle | Syrtis | |
| List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy |
