HMS Sea Scout (P253)

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HMS Sea Scout (P253)
Royal Navy
HMS Sea Scout (P253) on June 12, 1944
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Subtle class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy (RN)
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : April 1, 1943
Launch : March 24, 1944
Commissioning: June 19, 1944
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1965.
Technical specifications

(see Subtle class )

The HMS Sea Scout (P253) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Sea Scout ( Engl. : Sea Scouts ) was a boat of the fourth contract section of the UK S-Class . This lot is also known as the Subtle class . The submarine was launched on April 1, 1943 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on March 24, 1944 and was put into service by the Royal Navy on June 19, 1944.

The British Navy deployed the submarine under the command of Lt. JW Kelly stayed in the Asian theater of war until the end of the war .

On December 29, 1944, the Sea Scout sank two Japanese units near the Nicobar Islands . On February 23 and 26 and on February 28, 1945 she sank two Japanese sailing ships with the deck gun in the Strait of Malacca . On March 4, 1945, a Japanese sampan with artillery was sunk in Malakka Street . The next day another Japanese sailing ship followed in the same sea area.

On April 25, the Sea Scout sank a Japanese coaster with the on-board cannon off the Sunda island of Sumbawa .

On July 1, 1945, five Japanese units were destroyed by gunfire in the Gulf of Siam . In detail, the Sea Scout sank a tugboat , a coaster and five barges that day .

Also in the Gulf of Siam, the Sea Scout sank three Japanese sailing ships with the deck gun on July 7, 1945, one and two days later.

On August 15, 1945, the day of Japan's surrender , the HMS Sea Scout sank a Japanese patrol boat with artillery in the Gulf of Siam .

The submarine remained in active service with the Navy after the war, was decommissioned in September 1962 and then cannibalized as a spare parts donor, sold for scrapping in 1965 and demolished in Swansea in December of the same year .

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 states that the Sea Scout was commissioned on June 19, 1944. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives May 15, 1944.
  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 .