HMS Seawolf (47S)
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 HMS Seawolf |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Seawolf |
| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 25 May 1934 |
| Launched: | November 28, 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 12 March 1936 |
| Fate: | sold for breaking up, November 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 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 |
HMS Seawolf was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched November 28, 1935 and fought in World War II.
She had an eventful career after the outbreak of war. On October 6, 1939, she attacked the German light cruiser Nürnberg and the torpedo boat Falke in the Skagerrak ,but none of the targets were hit.
In April 1940, Seawolf sank the German merchant Hamm, and in November, claimed to have sunk the German merchant Bessheim. Bessheim was mined and sunk the previous day off Hammerfest, so Seawolf had probably attacked another merchant.
She was one of a number of submarines ordered to track the German battleship Bismarck before her eventual sinking.
On March 6, 1942, Seawolf sighted the German battleship Tirpitz, along with her escorting destroyers Paul Jacobi, Friedrich Ihn, Hermann Schoemann and Z-25. The German ships had sailed from Trondheim, Norway with the intention of attacking convoy PQ-12.
HMS Seawolf arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1943 to help the Royal Canadian Navy in anti-submaine warfare training.[1]
She was sold for breaking up in November 1945 to Marine Industries, of Montreal.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Seawolf, 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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