HMS Sibyl (P217)

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HMS Sibyl (P217) (ex P67)
Royal Navy
HMS Sibyl (P217) in August 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 : April 29, 1942
Commissioning: August 16, 1942
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1948.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Sibyl was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Sibyl (see Sibylle ) was a boat from the third batch of the successful S-Class . It was launched on December 31, 1940 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on April 29, 1942 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on August 16, 1942. The boat was used in the Mediterranean and Pacific wars.

The Sibyl torpedoed and sank on March 14, 1943 six nautical miles in front of Capo Gallo ( Sicily ) at 38 ° 14 '  N , 13 ° 13'  O the Italian freighter Pegli (1595  BRT ). On April 11, they attacked 10 nautical miles from Punta Raisi (Sicily) at 38 ° 19 '  N , 13 ° 0'  O the Italian freighter Fabriano (ex French. Mayenne , 2943 BRT) unsuccessfully with four torpedoes at.

On September 22, 1943, the Sibyl attacked a transport ship estimated at 1500 GRT in a German convoy with four torpedoes, unsuccessfully, five nautical miles south of Sestri Levante (Italy) at 44 ° 11 ′  N , 9 ° 24 ′  E. The following day, eight nautical miles west of Sestri Levante at 44 ° 13 '  N , 9 ° 13'  E, the Vichy-French transport ship St. Nazaire (2910 GRT) was sunk with torpedoes. On September 30, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 7022 Hummer (ex French Auguste Denise ; 278 GRT) was sunk 12 nautical miles northeast of Bastia ( Corsica ) at 42 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E by a torpedo hit. The Sibyl sank four Greek sailing ships with the deck gun between November 19 and 21, 1943 in the thematic Gulf . On January 8 and 9, 1944, she sank two Greek sailing ships off Cape Baba (Turkey). On February 8, 1945, she took before Crete (Greece) at 34 ° 40 '  N , 25 ° 0'  O the German tanker Centaur (1267 BRT) unsuccessfully with two torpedoes.

Between May 8 and May 31, 1945, the Sibyl sank five Japanese sailing ships in the Strait of Malacca . By July 1945 another eleven smaller units were sunk.

The Sibyl was scrapped in Troon, Scotland , in March 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

Footnotes

  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 .