HMS Seadog (P216)

HMS Seadog in the Holy Loch (1942). In the background is HMS Thunderbolt.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Seadog
Builder: Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
Laid down: 31 December 1940
Launched: 11 June 1942
Commissioned: 24 September 1942
Fate: sold 24 December 1947, broken up August 1948
General characteristics
Class and type: S-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 814-872 tons surfaced
  • 990 tons submerged
Length: 217 ft (66 m)
Beam: 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed:
  • 14.75 kn (27.32 km/h; 16.97 mph) surfaced
  • 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Complement: 48 officers and men
Armament:

HMS Seadog was an S-class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead and launched on 11 June 1942. She previously had the pennant P216. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Seadog.

Her first twelve patrols were in home waters, mostly off the coast of Norway, where on 28 December 1943 she sank the German transport ship Oldenburg, an ex passenger ship from the Hamburg America Line ( HAPAG ).[1] She was reassigned to the Far East in early 1945. On her first patrol in that theatre she rescued three US airmen from a raft in the Bay of Bengal, and shortly afterwards discovered and rescued another. Seadog rendezvoused with an RAF Catalina to transfer these survivors. On this and subsequent patrols she sank a total of six Japanese sailing vessels and a coaster. In early August she operated with her sister boat, HMS Shalimar, and together they sank another coaster, a tug, and a barge by gunfire.[2]

She survived the Second World War, and was sold on 24 December 1947. She was broken up at Troon in August 1948.

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ HMS Seadog, Uboat.net
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

Coordinates: 62°13′N 5°08′E / 62.217°N 5.133°E / 62.217; 5.133

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