HMS Sunfish (81S)
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 HMS Sunfish |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Sunfish |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Launched: | September 30, 1936 |
| Renamed: | V 1 |
| Reclassified: | lent to Russia as V 1, 1944 |
| Fate: | Sunk July 27, 1944 |
| 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 (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 Sunfish was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched September 30, 1936 and fought in World War II. Sunfish is one of 12 boats named in the song Twelve Little S-Boats.
She spent an eventful period with the Royal Navy on the outbreak of war, and was commanded for much of her career in the war by Lt.Cdr. J.E. Slaughter. In February 1940 she attacked U-14, but failed to sink her, and in April sank two German merchant ships, the Amasis and the Antares, and narrowly missed out on sinking the Hanau and an auxiliary patrol vessel.
She also sank a couple of German 'Q ships' that month, the Schürbeck and the Oldenburg. On a later patrol off Norway, she sank the Finnish merchant Oscar Midling and the Norwegian merchant Dixie .
Sunfish was transferred to Soviet Navy in 1944 and renamed V-1.
She did not spend long under Soviet command, and was bombed in error by a RAF Coastal Command Liberator off Norway, during passage from Dundee to Murmansk on July 27, 1944. Her commander, (Capt. 2nd Class Fisanovic), had taken her out of her assigned area and she was diving when the aircraft came in sight instead of staying on the surface and firing recognition signals as instructed. All crew including the British liaison staff were lost.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Sunfish, Uboat.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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