HMS Springer (P265)

HMS Springer (P265) Tanin
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Subtle class ( S class )
Navy :	Royal Navy (RN) Israeli Navy (IL)
Builder :	Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying :	May 8, 1944
Launch :	May 14, 1945
Commissioning:	August 2, 1945 (RN) 1958 (IL)
Whereabouts:	Decommissioned in 1972.
Technical specifications (see Subtle class )

The HMS Springer (P265) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . The submarine was handed over to Israel in 1958 .

history

The Springer was a boat from the fourth batch of the S-Class . This lot is also known as the Subtle class . She was laid down on May 8, 1944 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, northwest England , launched on May 14, 1945 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on August 2, 1945.

The submarine was handed over to Israel in 1958 and renamed Tanin . It was baptized in the new name by David Ben-Gurion personally.

The Tanin was used in the 1967 Six Day War. The submarine dropped commandos at Alexandria to attack the city's port. She also attempted a torpedo attack on an Egyptian sloop , but was pushed off and damaged by depth charges.

The Tanin was decommissioned in 1972. It served as a torpedo target for the Dolphin and was sunk.

The name Tanin was passed on to a modern, German-built Dolphin class boat in 2014 .

literature

• Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
• Robert Hutchinson: Fighting Under Water: 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 .

Web links

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

• HMS Springer on uboat.net ( English )
• British submarines in World War II ( memento of April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• History of the first two Israeli submarines: Israeli S Class Submarines at submarines.dotan.net (English)

Explanations and references

1. ↑ ^{a b} The uboat.net gives the same tower number 265 for both HMS Spur and HMS Springer .
2. ↑ ^{a b} The uboat.net specifies August 2, 1945 for the jumpers to go into service. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives July 2, 1945.
3. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .
4. ↑ ^{a b} History of the first two Israeli submarines: Israeli S Class Submarines. Submarines.dotan, December 31, 2000, accessed November 24, 2016 .