HMS Simoom (P225)

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HMS Simoom (P225) (ex P75)
Royal Navy
HMS Simoom in the Mersey in December 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : July 14, 1941
Launch : October 12, 1942
Commissioning: December 30, 1942
Whereabouts: Missed in the Eastern Mediterranean since November 1943.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Simoom (P225) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Simoom ( Arabic: poisonous wind , a sandstorm in North Africa and the Levant , see Samum ) was a submarine of the third construction lot of the S-class ; this lot is also known as the Seraph class . It was launched on July 14, 1941 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwestern England, launched on October 12, 1942, and entered service by the Royal Navy on December 30, 1942.

The area of ​​operation of the boat was in the Mediterranean , where it mainly fought the Axis supplies in the war in North Africa . The commandant of the boat was LT. Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson Milner.

On August 8, 1943, the Simoom attacked a merchant ship east of Bastia , but all torpedoes missed the target. The following day, the Italian light cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi was attacked southwest of La Spezia at 44 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E. The torpedoes passed the primary target and hit the Italian destroyer Vincenzo Gioberti (2326 ts) with devastation.

On November 2, 1943, the Simoom left their base in Port Said , Egypt , to patrol the Aegean Sea . It probably ran into a German sea ​​mine on November 4, 1943 off the Cycladic island of Donousa . There were no survivors.

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: Fight under water - 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. ↑ a b The uboat.net states December 30, 1942 for the Simoom to be commissioned. Hutchinson (see literature ) states November 28, 1942.
  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 .