HMS Spiteful (P227)

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HMS Spiteful (P227) (ex P77)
Sirène
Royal Navy Marine nationale française (French Navy)
HMS Spiteful on September 21, 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navies :
Builder : Scott's Shipbuild. ( Greenock )
Keel laying : September 19, 1941
Launch : June 5, 1943
Commissioning:
  • October 6, 1943 (RN)
  • 1952 (F)
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1963 .
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

The HMS Spiteful was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II . The boat was used by the French Navy between 1952 and 1958 under the name Sirène .

history

The Spiteful ( English: malicious or spiteful ) was a submarine of the third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . She was laid down on September 19, 1941 at Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Greenock, West Scotland , launched on June 5, 1943 and entered service by the Royal Navy on October 6, 1943.

The Royal Navy deployed the submarine under the command of Lt. FH Sherwood in the Pacific War .

The HMS Spiteful sank a Japanese fishing boat with the deck gun on June 30, 1944 in the Malakka Strait . On July 2, 1944, she sank a Japanese sailing ship with artillery north-east of Sumatra . On December 14, 1944, the Spiteful sank a Japanese unit with the deck gun in the Strait of Makassar .

On January 25, 1952, the French Navy took over the HMS Spiteful . The submarine was given the French name Sirène . The Sirène was returned to the Royal Navy in November 1958 and scrapped in 1963.

See also

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: Fight Under Water - Submarines from 1776 to the Present . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .
  • Anthony Preston: The History of the Submarines . German edition. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7 .