HMS Sportsman (P229)
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 HMS Sportsman |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Sportsman |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Launched: | April 17, 1942 |
| Renamed: | lent to French navy 1951 as Sibylle |
| Fate: | sunk off Toulon September 24, 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 814-872 tons surfaced 990 tons submerged |
| Length: | 217 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Speed: | 14.75 knots surfaced 8 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 48 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft 13 torpedoes one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats) one 20 mm cannon three .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Sportsman was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on April 17, 1942. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Sportsman.
[edit] Career
She spent most of the war in the Mediterranean, where she sank the French passenger ship Général Bonaparte, the Italian merchant Bolzaneto, the Italian fishing vessels Angiolina P and Maria Luisa B, the Italian sailing vessel Angiolina, two Greek sailing vessels, the Bulgarian troop transport Balkan, the small German tanker MT 3/Vienna, the German sailing vessel Grauer Ort and the German merchant Lüneburg (the former Greek Constantin Louloudis). Sportsman also sank the German transport Petrella (the former French Aveyron). 2670 out of 3173 Italian Prisoners of War who were aboard the Petrella were killed. The German guards did not open the prisoner of war rooms and fired at them when they tried to break out.[1]
Sportsman also damaged the Greek sailing vessel Spiridon and attacked a landing craft with gunfire. The attack had to be broken off because the gun jammed. She also fired six torpedoes at the French tanker Marguerite Finally. The torpedoes missed their target.
Sportsman survived the Second World War and was lent to the French navy in 1951, and renamed Sibylle. She was lost off Toulon on September 24, 1951. The entire crew of 47 officers and men went down with the ship.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Sportsman, Uboat.net
- 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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