HMS Sahib (P212)

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HMS Sahib (P212) (ex P62)
Royal Navy
HMS Sahib (P212)
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : 5th July 1940
Launch : June 19, 1942
Commissioning: May 13, 1942
Whereabouts: Self-sunk on April 24, 1943 off Sicily after severe damage.
Technical data
(see Seraph class )

The HMS Sahib (P212) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

→ see: History of the Seraph Class and Detailed History of the S Class

The Sahib ( Arabic: Lord , see Sāhib ) was a submarine of the third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . It was launched on July 5, 1940 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on June 19, 1942 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on May 13, 1942.

The deployment area of ​​the new war building was in the Mediterranean . The combat missions were mainly directed against supplies from the Axis during the war in North Africa . The commander of the submarine was Lt. John Henry Bromage.

Between September 12 and 16, 1942, the British submarine sank three Italian sailing ships with the on-board gun in the sea areas around Sardinia .

On November 14, 1942, the Sahib torpedoed and sank the Italian transporter Scillin (1579 GRT) off Sicily . The ship transported Allied prisoners of war . Over 780 prisoners of war and 165 Italians were killed. The submarine was only able to pick up and rescue 60 castaways.

On 14 December 1942 the submarine sank off the Tunisian peninsula of Cap Bon in 37 ° 29 '  N , 10 ° 46'  O the Italian cargo ship Honestas (4960 BRT). On January 11, 1943, the German (ex French) merchant ship San Antonio (6013 GRT) about 15 nautical miles east of San Remo was torpedoed and damaged. Three days later, the German transporter Oued Tiflet (1194 GRT) sank 20 nautical miles southwest of Savona at 44 ° 8 ′  N , 8 ° 17 ′  E by torpedoes from the Sahib .

On January 21, 1943, the German submarine U 301 was sunk west of Bonifacio ( Corsica ) at 41 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E. Only one German seaman survived the sinking.

In February and March 1943, six smaller Italian units were sunk off Sicily.

Commander Bromage received the Distinguished Service Order on April 6, 1943 .

On April 22, 1943 the Sahib fired at the Italian tug Valente (286 GRT) and a barge 3 nautical miles south of Capo Vaticano . The tug was hit 45 times and the lighter 25 times. The tug caught fire and burned out. Nevertheless, both units must have remained buoyant, because they were only labeled as damaged .

Two days later, on April 24, 1943, the HMS Sahib torpedoed the Italian transporter Galiola (1428 GRT) northeast of Sicily and sank the ship. The escorting Italian Corvette Gabbiano , Climene and Euterpe attacked out together with a German Ju 88 of Lehrgeschwader 1 at 38 ° 30 '  N , 15 ° 15'  O the submarine with water bombs on. The sahib was hit and suffered severe damage to the pressure hull. She had to show up. The entire crew then left the sinking Sahib and went into Italian captivity. One crew member died from his injuries on May 3, 1943.

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 specifies March 13, 1942 for the commissioning of the Sahib. Hutchinson (see literature ) states May 30, 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 .
  3. ↑ www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/42-11.htm
  4. ↑ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War 1939–1945, April 1943. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .