HMS Salmon (N65)
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 HMS Salmon |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Salmon |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 15 June 1933 |
| Launched: | April 30, 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 8 March 1935 |
| Fate: | Sunk 9 July 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 670 tons surfaced 960 tons submerged |
| Length: | 208 ft 9 in (63.6 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin diesel/electric |
| Speed: | 13.75 knots surfaced 10 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 39 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes one three-inch gun one .303-calibre machine gun |
| Badge: |  |
HMS Salmon was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched April 30, 1934 and fought in World War II. Salmon is one of 12 boats named in the song Twelve Little S-Boats.
On December 4, 1939 while on patol in the North Sea Salmon topedoed and sank U-36.[1]
On December 12, 1939 Salmon sighted the German liner SS Bremen. While challenging Bremen, an escorting Dornier Do 18 seaplane forced Salmon to dive. After diving the Salmon's commander, Lieutenant Commander E. O. Bickford, decided not to torpedo the liner because he believed she was not a legal target.[2] Bickford's decision not to fire on Bremen likely delayed the start of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II.[1]
On December 13, 1939 Salmon sighted a fleet of German warships. She fired a spread of torpedoes which damaged two German cruisers (one was Leipzig, the other, her younger sister ship, Nürnberg). Salmon evaded the fleet's destroyers, which hunted her for two hours.[1][2]
She was lost, probably sunk by a mine, on July 9, 1940.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Huchthausen, Peter A. (2005). Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 164, 227. ISBN 0471457582. OCLC 55764562.
- ^ a b http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/salmon.html
- 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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