HMS P222

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HMS P222
Royal Navy
HMS P222.jpg
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying : August 10, 1940
Launch : September 20, 1941
Commissioning: March 4, 1942
Whereabouts: Missed since December 1942.
Technical data
(see Seraph class )

HMS P222 was a Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

(See also: History of the Seraph Class and Detailed History of the S Class )

P222 was a third batch of the successful S-Class boat . This lot is also known as the Seraph class .

The boat was on 10 August 1940, Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness placed on Kiel, expired on 20 September 1941 from the pile and was supported by the Royal Navy made on March 4, 1942 in service. The originally planned tower number was P72 , but was changed to P222 in July 1941 before it was commissioned .

The main area of ​​application for the new war building was in the Mediterranean .

On July 27, 1942, P222 under the command of LCdr. Alexander James MacKenzie set up the Vichy-French merchant ship Mitidja (3286 GRT) in front of Cabo de Palos . The French ship was boarded and escorted to Gibraltar by the British destroyer HMS Wrestler .

P222 left its base in Gibraltar on November 30, 1942 . The aim of the patrol was the sea area off Naples . The last radio message from the submarine was recorded on December 7, 1942. Since then there has been no information about her whereabouts. P222 and the entire crew were officially declared missing on December 21, 1942.

The Italian navy said that the Italian on December 12, 1942 Torpedo boat Fortunale southeast of Capri at position 40 ° 29 '  N , 14 ° 20'  O a British submarine with depth charges have sunk. It was probably P222 .

Ship name

HMS P222 was the only S-class boat that did not have its own name. Winston Churchill asked the Admiralty several times in November and December 1942 to give all submarines individual names. Just like the T-class boat HMS P311 , however , P222 was lost before it could be officially renamed.

Web links

Commons : British S-Class Submarines  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
  • Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
  • Anthony Preston: The history of the submarines , Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, German edition 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ a b The uboat.net states March 4th 1942 for the commissioning of the P 222. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives November 3, 1942.
  2. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .