HMS Sea Devil (P244)

HMS Sea Devil (P244)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Seraph class ( S class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Scott's Shipbuild. ( Greenock )
Keel laying :	May 5, 1943
Launch :	January 30, 1945
Commissioning:	May 12, 1945
Whereabouts:	Scrapped in 1966
Technical specifications (see Seraph class )

HMS Sea Devil (P244) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

The Sea Devil ( English: Seeteufel ) was a boat of the third batch of the successful S-Class ; this lot is also known as the Seraph class . She was laid down on May 5, 1943 at Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Greenock, West Scotland , launched on January 30, 1945, and entered service by the Royal Navy on May 12, 1945.

The boat remained in active service with the Royal Navy after the war. It was shut down on June 4, 1962, sold for scrapping on December 15, 1962 and then demolished in Newhaven .

The Sea Devil was the last S-class submarine used by the Royal Navy. The Portuguese and Israeli navies continued to use boats of the class until the early 1970s.

Web links

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

• HMS Sea Devil on uboat.net ( engl. )
• British submarines during World War II (Engl.)

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: 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 May 12th 1945 for the commissioning of the Sea Devil. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives March 31, 1945.
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 .