HMS Sea Rover (P218)

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HMS Sea Rover (P218) (ex P68)
Royal Navy
HMS Sea Rover (P218) in August 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builders :
Keel laying : April 14, 1941
Launch : February 25, 1943
Commissioning: July 7, 1943
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1949
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Sea Rover (P218) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Sea Rover ( English : vagabond of the seas ) 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 April 14, 1941 at Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Greenock, West Scotland , and launched on February 25, 1943. The war new building was completed at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness in northwest England and put into service by the Royal Navy on July 7, 1943.

The submarine was deployed in the Asian theater of war in 1944 under the command of Lt JP Angell .

On 3 March 1944, the sunken HMS Sea Rover in the Malacca Straits at 4 ° 56 '  N , 100 ° 17'  O the Japanese ship Matsu Maru no. 1 with the deck gun . Three days later, a small Japanese unit with artillery was sunk in Malakka Street. On March 8, 1944 torpedoed and sank the boat in the Strait of Malacca at 3 ° 38 '  N , 99 ° 12'  O Japanese Transportation Shobu Maru (2005 GRT ). On April 22, 1944, the Sea Rover sank a Japanese coaster north of Sumatra ( Dutch East Indies ) with the deck gun. On May 22, 1944, she sank against Penang ( Malaya ) at 4 ° 52 '  N , 100 ° 18'  O the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Koshu Maru (1365 GRT) with torpedoes . The Sea Rover sank with artillery on June 27 and two Japanese sailing ships on July 5, 1944 off Penang. On October 4, 1944, two small Japanese units were damaged by gunfire in the Floressee . On October 7, 1944, the Sea Rover sank a Japanese transport unit with the on-board gun off Surabaya ( East Jawa ).

The Sea Rover was sold for scrapping in October 1949 and then demolished in Faslane-on-Clyde , Scotland .

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 .