HMS Salmon (N65)

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HMS Salmon (N65)
Royal Navy
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Shark class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : June 15, 1933
Launch : April 30, 1934
Commissioning: March 8, 1935
Whereabouts: Missed since July 1940
Technical data
(see Shark class )

HMS Salmon (N65) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

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

The Salmon ( Engl .: salmon ) was a boat of the second construction lot of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Shark class .

She was laid down at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on June 15, 1933 , launched on April 30, 1934, and entered service by the Royal Navy on March 8, 1935.

After the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, the submarine was used in the North Sea .

Torpedoed on December 4, 1939 and sank the Salmon , the German submarine U 36 southwest of Kristiansand in position 57 ° 0 '  N , 2 ° 47'  O .

On December 12, 1939, the Salmon discovered the German merchant ship Bremen in the North Sea at position 57 ° 2 ′  N , 5 ° 52 ′  E and appeared to inspect it according to price law . But the British submarine had his plan and cancel alarm diving, as a German do-18 - flying boat appeared on the field.

One day later, the Salmon cleared up a German task force in the central North Sea at position 56 ° 47 '  N , 4 ° 0'  E. The association consisted of the light cruisers Cologne , Leipzig and Nuremberg . The cruisers gave the five destroyers Z 4 Richard Beitzen , Z 8 Bruno Heinemann , Z 14 Friedrich Ihn , Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck and Z 19 Hermann Künne escort protection on their way home after they had laid mines in front of Newcastle . The commander of the Salmon , LtCdr EO Bickford, had a torpedo fan fired at the formation from a great distance . The Nürnberg was hit at the bow and had to go to the shipyard for repairs until May 1940. The Leipzig suffered a direct hit amidships, which destroyed the two front boiler rooms. The cruiser stayed in the shipyard until November 1940 and was only used as a training ship after the repair .

On June 20, 1940, the Salmon attacked a German convoy with two torpedoes 15 NM southwest of Egersund at position 58 ° 18 '  N , 5 ° 52'  E. But the torpedoes missed their target.

On July 4th, the Salmon left for her last patrol to patrol off Karmøy in southern Norway. As of July 9, there was no longer any contact with the submarine. HMS Salmon was officially declared missing on July 16. The most likely explanation is that the British submarine ran into a minefield.

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: FIGHT UNDER WATER - Submarines from 1776 to the present day. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .
  • Anthony Preston: The History of the Submarines. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7 .

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .
  2. ↑ The uboat.net the sinking are for the position of the U 36 under U 36 ( memento of 18 March 2012 Webcite ) has the value 57 ° 0 '  N , 5 ° 20'  O at. Under HMS Salmon , however, the position 57 ° 0 '  N , 2 ° 47'  E is given.