Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine P223

HMS Sea Nymph (P223)

S-class submarine

HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3779 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — P223 British S class submarine HMSM SEA NYMPH underway in the Clyde .

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Sea Nymph3 November 1942 — 19481,034 days of the war
S-class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Sea Nymph
Pennant / hull number
P223
Builder
Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Ordered
2 September 1940
Laid down
6 May 1941
Launched
29 July 1942
Commissioned
3 November 1942
Fate
Broken up, 1948 (1948)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
865 long tons (879 t)
Displacement, submerged
990 long tons (1,006 t)
Length
66.14 m (217 ft)
Beam
7.01 m (23 ft)
Draught
4.27 m (14 ft)
Speed
15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
Range
6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
Complement
48
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

HMS Sea Nymph was a S-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P223. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 6 May 1941. She entered service on 3 November 1942, having been launched on 29 July 1942.

Her class ran to 111 ships.

The boat displaced 865 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 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 48.

Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,900 bhp.

She was in commission for 1,034 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in 1948.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 × diesel engines
  • 2 × electric motors
Power
  • 1900 bhp (diesel)
  • 1300 hp (electric)
Armament
  • 7 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 × bow, 1 × stern)
  • 1 × 3 in (76 mm) deck gun
  • 1 × 20 mm AA gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Sea Nymph (P223) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3779 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons