HMS Sirdar (P227)

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HMS Sirdar (P226) (ex P76)
Royal Navy
HMS Sirdar (P226) on September 18, 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder :
Keel laying : April 24, 1941
Launch : March 26, 1943
Commissioning: September 20, 1943
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1965.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Sirdar was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

The Sirdar ( Farsi : Commander , see Sirdar ) was a boat from the third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . It was launched on April 24, 1941 at Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Greenock , West Scotland , and launched on March 26, 1943. The new war building was completed at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness in northwest England and put into service by the Royal Navy on September 20, 1943.

The Royal Navy deployed the submarine under the command of Lt.  YES donors in the Pacific War .

On June 8, 1944, the Sirdar sank a Japanese sailing ship with the deck gun in Malakka Street . Three days later she damaged a Japanese coaster north of Sumatra ( Dutch East Indies ) . The Sirdar sank a Japanese sailing ship off the west coast of Siam on July 18, 1944, and two coasters on July 21. On September 1, 1944, they sank a small Japanese unit northwest of Sumatra. On the following day was 17  nautical miles south-east of Meulaboh (Sumatra) at 3 ° 55 '  N , 96 ° 20'  O Japanese patrol boat Kaiyo Maru no. 5  sunk (93 BRT) with the deck gun. On December 25, 1944, the boat sank a Japanese unit off Surabaya ( Java ).

The Sirdar was badly damaged in an accident in dry dock in Sheerness in February 1953 . It was sold for scrapping on May 31, 1965 and broken up in Boness, Scotland .

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 specifies September 20, 1943 for the commissioning of the Sirdar. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives August 18, 1943.
  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 .