HMS Seahorse (98S)
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 HMS Seahorse |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Seahorse |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Launched: | 15 November 1932 |
| Fate: | Sunk 7 January 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 640 tons surfaced 935 tons submerged |
| Length: | 202 ft 6 in (61.7 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: | 36 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes one three-inch gun one 20 mm cannon one .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Seahorse (98S) was a group one British S class submarine that was lost at sea with all hands in Heligoland Bight, North Sea, probably on the 7 January 1940, during the Second World War.
On 26 December 1939 she sailed from Rosyth for patrol off the east coast of Denmark. Four days later she shifted position to the entrance of the Elbe. She did not return on her due date of 9 January 1940. It was first thought that she had been mined but German records, examined after the war, suggest she was the victim of the German First Minesweeper Flotilla which reported a sustained depth charge attack on an unidentified submarine on 7th January 1940.[1] It is however also possible that she was rammed and sunk by the German Sperrbrecher IV/Oakland south east of Helgoland on 29 December 1939.[2].
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- ^ Submarine losses 1904 to present day, RN Submarine Museum, Gosport
- ^ HMS Seahorse, Uboot.net
- 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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