HMS Swordfish

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Swordfish after the fish.

• The first Swordfish was a 330 ton destroyer launched in 1895 and sold in 1910.
• The second Swordfish was a steam-powered submarine launched in 1916 as HMS S1. She was converted into a surface patrol boat in 1917 and renamed Swordfish.
• The most recent Swordfish was an S class submarine launched in 1931 and sunk by a naval mine in the English Channel in 1940.

[edit] References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.