HMS Starfish (19S)
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 HMS Starfish |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Starfish |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 26 September 1931 |
| Launched: | 14 March 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 3 July 1933 |
| Fate: | Sunk 9 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 Starfish (19S) was a group one British S class submarine that was depth charged and sunk by a German minesweeper M7 at Heligoland Bight on 9 January 1940 during the Second World War. Her crew were captured.
HMS Starfish sailed from Blyth for patrol on 5 January 1940. On the 9th she sighted a German destroyer and attacked it. A communication problem caused the first attack to fail and as the submarine returned to periscope depth to carry out another attack she was attacked by depth charges. Further depth charge attacks forced Starfish to settle on the bottom and wait for the enemy to move on. At 1815 Starfish returned to the surface, all confidential documents were destroyed and the submarine scuttled. The ship’s company were picked up by the waiting ships and taken as prisoners of war.[1][2].
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- ^ Submarine losses 1904 to present day, RN Submarine Museum, Gosport
- ^ HMS Starfish, 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.
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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