HMS Sea Dog (P216)

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HMS Sea Dog (P216) (ex P66)
Royal Navy
HMS Sea Dog in Holy Loch in 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : December 31, 1940
Launch : June 11, 1942
Commissioning: September 24, 1942
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1948
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Sea Dog (P216) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Sea Dog ( English : Seehund ) was a boat of the third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . The boat was on 31 December 1940, Cammell Laird in the North West of England Birkenhead to put Kiel , ran on 11 June 1942 by stack and has been asked by the Royal Navy on 24 September 1942 in service. The first patrol took her into the North Sea , where the boat monitored the exits of Norwegian fjords to protect the North Sea Convoy QP 15 .

The boat was used both in the North Sea and in the Asian theater of war.

On December 28, 1943 torpedoed and sank the Sea Dog 2½ miles east-northeast before Honningsvåg (Norway) at 62 ° 13 '  N , 5 ° 8'  O the German freighter Oldenburg (8537 BRT ).

On February 27, 1945, the boat rescues three shot down American pilots from their life raft in the Bay of Bengal . Shortly thereafter, another pilot could be accepted. The four men were later to a Catalina - flying boat passed.

On May 18, 1945, the Sea Dog sank a Japanese coaster with torpedoes north of Sumatra ( Dutch East Indies ) . Two days later, also north of Sumatra, a Japanese sailing ship with the deck gun was destroyed. In the period from July 24 to 29, 1945, the Sea Dog sank four Japanese sailing ships in the Strait of Malacca with artillery on board or by boarding teams that destroyed the ships with explosive charges . On August 2, 1945, the Sea Dog sunk a Japanese lighter and its tug with the deck gun in the southern Malakka Strait together with her sister boat Shalimar . Three days later, the two boats sank a Japanese coaster in the same area of ​​the sea.

The Sea Dog was sold for scrapping on December 24, 1947 and demolished in Troon, Scotland , in August 1948 .

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. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .