HMS Spark (P236)

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HMS Spark (P236)
Royal Navy
HMS Spark (P236) on April 15, 1944
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Scott's Shipbuild. ( Greenock )
Keel laying : October 10, 1942
Launch : December 28, 1943
Commissioning: April 28, 1944
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1949.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

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

history

The Spark ( ger .: Funke ) was a boat of the third construction lot of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . She was launched on October 10, 1942 at Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Greenock , West Scotland, launched on December 28, 1943 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on April 28, 1944.

The Navy deployed the Spark in the Asian theater of war . Under the command of Lt. DG Kent on October 21, 1944 Trincomalee on Ceylon .

In November 1944, two Japanese sailing ships with the deck gun were sunk off the Mergui Islands ( Burma ) . On February 1, 1945, the Spark fired at a Japanese lighter in the western Java Sea and the coaster carrying it with artillery. A tug was also attacked. The three vehicles were destroyed. On the same day, another coaster was attacked off Panjang . On February 8, a Japanese escort attacked the Spark with 16 depth charges . The submarine escaped undamaged.

On March 29 and March 31, 1945, the Spark sank a coaster in the Floressee .

The boat returned to Great Britain in October 1945, was sold for scrapping on October 29, 1949 and then scrapped in Faslane-on-Clyde .

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 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 .