HMS Shakespeare (P221)

HMS Shakespeare (P221) (ex P71)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Seraph class ( S class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	November 13, 1940
Launch :	December 8, 1941
Commissioning:	July 10, 1942
Whereabouts:	Badly damaged by a Japanese mine sweeper on January 3, 1945. Scrapped in 1946 .
Technical specifications (see Seraph class )

HMS Shakespeare (P221) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Shakespeare (see William Shakespeare ) was a boat of the third batch of the S-class ; this lot is also known as the Seraph class .

The boat was laid on November 13, 1940 at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness, northwest England , was launched on December 8, 1941 and was put into service by the Royal Navy on July 10, 1942.

The Royal Navy used the boat in the Mediterranean and Pacific wars . Commanders of the submarine were Lt. MFR Ainslie and later Lt. David Swanston.

On May 13, 1943, the recessed Shakespeare before the north east coast of Sardinia at 41 ° 17 '  N , 10 ° 26'  O Italian sailboats Sant 'Anna M. (156 BRT) and Adelina (80 BRT) with the deck gun .

On August 6, 1943, the submarine unsuccessfully attacked a light cruiser target on the southern Italian island of Ustica with three torpedoes .

HMS Shakespeare torpedoed and sank on Sept. 7, 1943 south of Salerno at 40 ° 15 '  N , 14 ° 30'  O the Italian submarine Velella .

In November and December 1943, two sailing ships were sunk off the Dodecanese island of Kos .

After the submarine was ordered to the Pacific theater, it sank on December 31, 1944 east of Port Blair ( Andaman and Nicobar Islands ) at 11 ° 40 '  N , 93 ° 15'  O the Japanese freighter Unryu Maru (2515 GRT) with torpedoes.

On January 3, 1945 Shakespeare and the Japanese minesweeper Wa 1 fight a heavy artillery duel with the Nicobar Islands. Both ships were severely damaged. The British submarine escaped, but was written off as a total loss.

The badly damaged submarine was sold for scrapping on July 14, 1946.

Web links

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

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

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 .
2. ↑ See Velella ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.regiamarina.net. (engl.) 

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