HMS Sea Rover |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Sea Rover |
| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 14 April 1941 |
| Launched: | February 8, 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 7 July 1943 |
| Fate: | sold October 1949, broken up from June 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 814-872 tons surfaced 990 tons submerged |
| Length: | 217 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Speed: | 14.75 knots surfaced 8 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 48 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft 13 torpedoes one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats) one 20 mm cannon three .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Sea Rover was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Scotts, of Greenock and launched on February 8, 1943. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Sea Rover.
Sea Rover spent most of her career in the Far East, where she sank a number of Japanese ships, including the ship Matsu Maru No.1, the transport Shobu Maru, the auxiliary gunboat Koshu Maru, three sailing vessels, a coaster and four unidentified Japanese vessels.[1]
Sea Rover survived the Second World War, and was sold in October 1949. Sea Rover was broken up at Faslane from June 1950.
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