Royal Navy — Submarine
P214
HMS Satyr (P214)
Service
- as Satyr8 February 1943 — April 1962937 days of the war
S-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Satyr
- Pennant / hull number
- P214
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Laid down
- 8 June 1940
- Launched
- 28 September 1942
- Commissioned
- 8 February 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped, April 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 872 long tons (886 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 990 long tons (1,006 t)
- Length
- 66.14 m (217 ft)
- Beam
- 7.01 m (23 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
- Complement
- 48
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Satyr was a S-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P214. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock laid her keel on 8 June 1940. Launched on 28 September 1942, she entered service on 8 February 1943.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
The boat displaced 872 long tons surfaced and 990 long tons submerged. She measured 66.1 m (217 ft) long with a beam of 7.0 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 14.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 48. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 937 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in April 1962.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 6 × forward 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
- 13 torpedoes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) gun (QF 4-inch on later boats)
- 1 × 20 mm cannon
- 3 × .303-calibre machine gun
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Saumarez (G12)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
- HMS Seahorse (98S)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Satyr (P214) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 18706 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons