HMS Seahorse (96S)

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HMS Seahorse (96S)
Royal Navy
HMS Seahorse on October 13, 1933
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Swordfish class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Chatham Dockyard ( Chatham )
Keel laying : September 14, 1931
Launch : November 15, 1932
Commissioning: October 2, 1933
Whereabouts: Presumably sunk by German depth charges on January 7, 1940.
Technical data
(see Swordfish class )

HMS Seahorse (96S) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

see: History of the Swordfish- Class and Detailed History of the S-Class

The Seahorse ( Engl. : Seahorses ) belonged to the first group of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Swordfish class. She was laid down on September 14, 1931 at the Chatham Naval Yard, launched on November 15, 1932, and entered service by the Royal Navy on October 2, 1933.

In September 1938, the HMS Seahorse collided with the British destroyer HMS Foxhound and suffered damage.

After the start of the war , the submarine was used in the North Sea .

On September 17, 1939, the Seahorse attacked the German submarine U 36 unsuccessfully at position 56 ° 42 '  N , 0 ° 52'  E. All four torpedoes missed their target.

Seahorse ran on December 26, 1939 under the command of Lt. Dennis Staunton Massy-Dawson left their base in Blyth to patrol west of Jutland . The patrol was to last until January 9, 1940. There has been no contact with the submarine since leaving the base. The position and circumstances of the loss have not yet been fully clarified.

According to reports, the Navy units sighted on January 7, 1940, the first Minensuchflottille 15 nautical miles northwest of Helgoland in position 54 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 30'  O a submarine. The submarine submerged after the sighting was attacked several times with depth charges and probably destroyed. Emerging fog prevented further reconnaissance and the sighting of any debris. Presumably, this unidentified submarine was HMS Seahorse .

According to an alternative theory, the Seahorse was rammed and sunk on December 27, 1939 by the German Sperrbrecher Sperrbrecher IV / Oakland .

See also

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, 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. ↑ a b The uboat.net states October 2, 1933 for the Seahorse to be commissioned. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives July 26, 1933.
  2. ↑ The uboat.net states that HMS Seahorse may have been rammed and sunk by the German barrier breaker Oakland southeast of Heligoland on December 29, 1939 .
  3. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .