Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine P221

HMS Shakespeare (P221)

S-class submarine

HMS Shakespeare (P221)
Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 6117 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — P221 British S class submarine HMSM SHAKESPEARE underway passing a quayside.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Shakespeare10 July 1942 — 14 July 19461,150 days of the war
S-class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Shakespeare
Pennant / hull number
P221
Builder
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down
13 November 1940
Launched
8 December 1941
Commissioned
10 July 1942
Fate
Sold, 14 July 1946 (1946)
Status
Unknown

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 Shakespeare was a S-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P221. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 13 November 1940. She entered service on 10 July 1942, having been launched on 8 December 1941.

111 ships of the class were built.

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 1,150 days of the Second World War.

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 Shakespeare (P221) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 6117 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons