HMS Sea Nymph (P223)

HMS Sea Nymph
Career
Class and type: S class submarine
Name: HMS Sea Nymph
Builder: Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
Laid down: 6 May 1941
Launched: July 29, 1942
Commissioned: 3 November 1942
Fate: broken up 1948
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
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Sea Nymph.

HMS Sea Nymph was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on July 29, 1942.

She spent most of the Second World War in home waters off the Scandinavian Coast, where she made a number of unsuccessful attacks on enemy shipping, including the German submarine U-592, the Norwegian merchant Jupiter and the German merchant Levante. All torpedoes fired missed their targets.

Sea Nymph survived the war and was eventually sold. She arrived at Troon in June 1948 for breaking up.[1]

References

  1. HMS Sea Nymph, Uboat.net