HMS Sterlet (2S)
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 HMS Sterlet |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Sterlet |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 14 July 1936 |
| Launched: | September 22, 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 6 April 1938 |
| Fate: | Sunk April 18, 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 670 tons surfaced 960 tons submerged |
| Length: | 208 ft 9 in (63.6 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin diesel/electric |
| Speed: | 13.75 knots surfaced 10 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 39 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes one three-inch gun one .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Sterlet was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched September 22, 1937 and fought in World War II. Sterlet is one of 12 boats named in the song Twelve Little S-Boats. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Sterlet.
On April 8, 1940 Sterlet left for a patrol in the Skagerrak, Norway. Four days later she unsuccessfully attacked a convoy of three merchant ships and a destroyer. The following day she was assigned a new patrol area and on April 14 torpedoed the German Gunnery Ship Brummer, mortally wounding the German ship.[1] She was possibly sunk by the German anti submarine trawlers UJ-125, UJ-126 and UJ-128 on 18 April. Alternatively, she may have struck a mine whilst returning to port.[2]
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- ^ German.navy.de: Brummer
- ^ Uboat.net: HMS Sterlet
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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