HMS Splendid (P228)

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HMS Splendid (P228) (ex P78)
Royal Navy
HMS Splendid on August 18, 1942
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Chatham Dockyard ( Chatham )
Keel laying : March 7, 1941
Launch : January 19, 1942
Commissioning: August 8, 1942
Whereabouts: Sunk by German destroyers with depth charges on April 21, 1943.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

The HMS Splendid (P228) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Splendid ( English: great ) was a third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . It was on March 7, 1941 the Navy Yard Chatham in southeast England Chatham placed on Kiel, ran on 19 January 1942 by stack and has been asked by the Royal Navy on August 8, 1942 in service.

The deployment area of ​​the new war building was in the Mediterranean . The combat missions were mainly directed against supplies from the Axis during the war in North Africa . The commander of the submarine was Lt. Ian Lachlan Mackay McGeogh.

On November 16, 1942, the recessed Splendid 15 nautical miles north-west of Gorgona at 43 ° 34 '  N , 9 ° 37'  O Italian auxiliary U-Hunter V.277 / San Paolo (209 BRT). Five days later, the Italian was on November 21 destroyers Velite 18 nautical miles southwest of Ischia at 40 ° 30 '  N , 13 ° 33'  O with torpedoes damaged. On November 23, the recessed Splendid with the deck gun southeast of Sardinia at 39 ° 0 '  N , 11 ° 11'  O the Italian cargo ship Favorita (3576 BRT).

On 17 December 1942, the attacked Splendid 35 nautical miles northeast of the Tunisian Bizerte at 37 ° 53 '  N , 10 ° 5'  O the German van Ankara (4768 BRT) with torpedoes. During the attack, the escorting Italian destroyer Aviere was sunk. Although the same day the sister boat HMS Saracen the Ankara also attacked with torpedoes, the German transport ship escaped initially unscathed. It ran into a sea ​​mine laid by HMS Rorqual in January 1943 and sank.

On January 15, 1943 torpedoed and sank the Splendid 15 nautical miles southwest of the island of Capri in 40 ° 25 '  N , 13 ° 56'  O the Italian transporters Emma (7931 BRT). On January 19, were east of Sardinia at 39 ° 41 '  N , 9 ° 43'  O Italian transporter Commercio (766 BRT) and the Italian auxiliary minesweeper R.107 / Cleopatra sunk (72 BRT).

On February 17, 1943, the submarine achieved two combat successes. Three nautical miles north of San Vito lo Capo ( Sicily ) at 38 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 43'  O Italian cargo ship was XXI Aprile (4787 BRT) sunk. The German transporter Sienna (2147 GRT) was also lost in the same attack .

On March 21, 1943 followed the Italian tanker Giorgio (4887 BRT), the eight nautical miles east-northeast of Cefalu (Sicily) at 38 ° 5 '  N , 14 ° 10'  O was sunk.

Commander McGeogh received the Distinguished Service Order on April 6, 1943 .

The HMS Splendid was attacked with depth charges and sunk on April 21, 1943 south of Capri at 40 ° 30 '  N , 14 ° 15'  E by the German destroyer ZG 3 “Hermes” under frigate captain Curt Rechel . 30 British sailors were rescued from the German destroyer, 18 were killed. During the bombing, the submarine tried a counterattack. But the torpedo missed the destroyer.

See also

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 August 8, 1942 for the Splendid to be commissioned. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives August 4, 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 .