HMS Solent (P262)

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HMS Solent (P262)
Royal Navy
HMS Solent (P262) on September 1, 1944
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Subtle class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy (RN)
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : May 7, 1943
Launch : June 8, 1944
Commissioning: September 7, 1944
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1961.
Technical specifications

(see Subtle class )

HMS Solent (P262) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

The Solent (branch of the English Channel, see Solent ) was a boat of the fourth batch of the British S-Class ; this construction lot is also known as the subtle class . The boat was launched on May 7, 1943 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on June 8, 1944 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on September 7, 1944.

On 26 April 1945 the recessed Solent (Commander: Lt. JD Martin), together with its sister boat Sleuth (commander: Lt. KH Martin) before Kalambau in the Java Sea at 4 ° 50 '  S , 115 ° 40'  O the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 3 (215  ts ) with their deck guns . Between August 5 and 15, 1945, the two submarines sank 15 Japanese sailing ships together in the Gulf of Thailand . In addition, the Solent sank a Japanese patrol boat there alone on August 15 .

After the war, the boat remained in active service with the Royal Navy. It was sold for scrapping in 1961, arrived in Troon, Scotland on August 28, 1961, and was subsequently demolished there.

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. ↑ a b The uboat.net states September 7, 1944 for the Solent to be commissioned. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives July 29, 1944.
  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 .