HMS Springer (P265)
HMS Springer (P265) Tanin |
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Ship type : | Submarine | |
Ship class : | Subtle class ( S class ) | |
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Builder : | Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead ) | |
Keel laying : | May 8, 1944 | |
Launch : | May 14, 1945 | |
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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
- 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
- ↑ a b The uboat.net gives the same tower number 265 for both HMS Spur and HMS Springer .
- ↑ a b The uboat.net specifies August 2, 1945 for the jumpers to go into service. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives July 2, 1945.
- ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .
- ↑ a b History of the first two Israeli submarines: Israeli S Class Submarines. Submarines.dotan, December 31, 2000, accessed November 24, 2016 .