HMS Clyde (N12)
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 HMS Clyde |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Clyde |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Launched: | 15 March 1934 |
| Fate: | sold 30 July 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,206 tons surfaced 2,723 tons submerged |
| Length: | 345 ft (105 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft 3 in (8.6 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 11 in (4.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft diesel electric 2 supercharged diesels 10,000 hp max 2 electric motors 2500 hp |
| Speed: | 22 knots surfaced 10 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 61 |
| Armament: | 6 x 21 in torpedo tubes (bow) 1 x 4 inch deck gun |
HMS Clyde (N12) was an ocean-going type of submarine of the River Class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched on the 15 March 1934.
She had an eventful career in the Second World War, serving across the world. In May 1940, she was operating off the Scandinavian coast, where she attacked the German armed merchant cruiser Widder but was driven off. In June of that year, she spotted and torpedoed the German battlecruiser Gneisenau, hitting her in the bow and forcing her to return to Trondheim for repairs.
In July she sunk the Norwegian fishing vessel SF 52 and later mistakenly attacked HMS Truant, but fortunately without success.
June 1941 found Clyde operating in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian merchants San Marco and Sturla, and later the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V 125, Giovanni Bottigliere.
Assigned to the Pacific station in September 1941, she unsuccessfully attacked three German submarines U-67, U-68 and U-111 in Tarafal Bay, Cape Verde Islands. In March 1945 she recorded another string of kills against the Japanese, sinking two sailing vessels and the auxiliary submarine chaser Kiku Maru.[1]
She survived the Second World War and was sold for breaking up on 30 July 1946 to Joubert, of Durban.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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