HMS Sealion (72S)
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 HMS Sealion |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Sealion |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Launched: | March 16, 1934 |
| Fate: | Scuttled as ASDIC target March 13, 1945 |
| 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 (25.5 km/h) surfaced 10 knots (19 km/h) submerged |
| Complement: | 39 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes one three-inch (76 mm) gun one .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Sealion was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched March 16, 1934 and fought in World War II.
She had an eventful career after the outbreak of war. She attacked U-21 off the Dogger Bank in November 1939, but failed to sink her. Her first success was the German merchant August Leonhard, sunk in April 1940. She later attacked the German merchant Moltkefels, but failed to hit her. She fired upon the beached Palime, and unsuccessfully attacked U-62 in July 1940. She finished her patrol by sinking the Norwegian merchant Toran and attacking but failing to sink the German merchant Cläre Hugo Stinnes in August.
In February 1941 she sank the (German controlled) Norwegian ship Ryfylke. In May of that year Sealion unsuccessfully attacked U-74. In July she attacked French shipping, sinking the French fishing vessels Gustav Eugene and Gustav Jeanne, and on succeeding days, Christus Regnat and St Pierre d'Alcantara.
She was one of a number of submarines ordered to track the German battleship Bismarck before her eventual sinking.
Towards the end of 1941 she sank the Norwegian tanker Vesco and the Norwegian merchant Island.[1]
She was scuttled as an ASDIC target off the Isle of Arran on March 13, 1945.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Sealion, 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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