HMS P36 (submarine)
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 HMS Ursula, sister ship to HMS P36. |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | P36 |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 26 July 1940 |
| Launched: | 28 April 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1941 |
| Fate: | Sunk 1 April 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: |
Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load Submerged - 740 tons |
| Length: | 196 ft 9 in (60.0 m) |
| Beam: | 16 ft 1 in (4.9 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 2 in (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shaft diesel-electric |
| Speed: |
11.25 knots max surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) max submerged |
| Complement: | 27-31 |
| Armament: |
4 bow internal, 2 bow external 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes: 8 - 10 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) gun 3 x AA machine guns |
HMS P36 was a British U class submarine, a member of the third group of that class to be built. She was sunk at the quayside in Malta in 1942, and some of her survivors were shipwrecked again in another submarine less than six weeks later.
[edit] Notable career events
- 26 November 1941: While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay HMS P36 (Lt. H.N. Edmonds, DSC, RN) attacks a German submarine with torpedoes south-west of Belle-Ile island in position 47°16'N, 03°20'W. All torpedoes missed their target. The following German submarines all returned to Saint-Nazaire this day, U-133, U-552, U-567 and U-577. One of these was most likely the target of this attack.[1]
- 13 February 1942: HMS P36 fires four torpedoes against the Italian heavy cruisers Gorizia and Trento in the Ionian Sea about 90 nautical miles (170 km) east of Capo Spartivento, Calabria, Italy in position 37°42'N, 18°00'E. All torpedoes fired missed their targets.
- 15 February 1942: HMS P36 torpedoes and damages the Italian destroyer Carabiniere off Taranto.
- 1 April 1942: HMS P36 was lying alongside a jetty at Sliema Harbour in Malta when the Luftwaffe attacked the harbour. A large bomb landed sufficiently near to the submarine to hole her and she began to sink. Despite desperate efforts to save the submarine she rolled over and sank.[2] She was raised on 7 August 1958 and scuttled off Malta on 22 August 1958. Following the loss of P36 in 1942, some surviving crew members embarked on board HMS Olympus bound for Gibraltar. Shortly after leaving Malta on 8 May 1942, Olympus was sunk after striking a mine. Nine of the 98 passengers and crew swam 7 miles (11 km) back to the Maltese coast.[3]
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