HMS Sterlet (N22)

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HMS Sterlet (N22)
Royal Navy
HMS Sterlet around 1938
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Shark class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Chatham Dockyard ( Chatham )
Keel laying : July 14, 1936
Launch : September 22, 1937
Commissioning: April 6, 1938
Whereabouts: Probably sunk by German U-fighters in the Skagerrak on April 18, 1940 .
Technical data
(see Shark class )

HMS Sterlet (N22) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

see: History of the Shark-Class and Detailed History of the S-Class

The Sterlet (→ Sterlet ) was a boat of the second sub-assembly of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Shark class . She was laid down on July 14, 1936 at the Chatham Naval Yard, launched on September 22, 1937, and entered service by the Royal Navy on April 6, 1938.

After the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, the submarine was used in the North Sea .

On April 14, 1940 (under the command of Lt. Gerard Henry Stacpoole Haward) the torpedoed HMS Sterlet in Skagerrak south of Larvik in position 58 ° 40 '  N , 9 ° 56'  O the German artillery training ship Brummer . The ship used as a transporter for the German landing in Northern Europe was badly damaged and sank the following day.

The HMS Sterlet was probably sunk on April 18, 1940 in the Skagerrak at the position 58 ° 55 '  N , 10 ° 10'  E by the German UJ-125 , UJ-126 and UJ-128 . There were no survivors. It is possible that the submarine was lost in a mine hit on the way back to the base .

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: FIGHT UNDER WATER - Submarines from 1776 to the present day. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .
  • Anthony Preston: The History of the Submarines. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7 .

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ Hutchinson (see literature ) does not mention the sterlet . Bagnasco and uboat.net assign it to the 2nd assembly.
  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 .