HMS Supreme (P252)
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Supreme |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 15 February 1943 |
| Launched: | February 24, 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1944 |
| Fate: | broken up July 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 Supreme 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 February 24, 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Supreme.
She survived the Second World War, spending most of it in the Pacific Far East, where she sank thirteen Japanese sailing vessels, six Japanese coasters, a Japanese tug and a barge, and a small unidentified Japanese vessel. Supreme also attacked what is thought to be a Japanese auxiliary patrol vessel.[1]
Supreme was eventually paid off and broken up at Troon in July 1950.
References
- ↑ HMS Supreme, Uboat.net
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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