HMS Spiteful (P227)
Service
- as Spiteful6 October 1943 — 15 July 1963697 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Spiteful
- Pennant / hull number
- P227
- Builder
- Scotts, Greenock
- Laid down
- 19 September 1941
- Launched
- 5 June 1943
- Commissioned
- 6 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 15 July 1963
- Fate
- Scrapped
- 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 Spiteful was a S-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P227. Scotts, Greenock laid her keel on 19 September 1941. She entered service on 6 October 1943, having been launched on 5 June 1943.
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 697 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 July 1963.
She was broken up for scrap.
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
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Spiteful (P227) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: W Ralston (of Glasgow) — This photograph FL 3460 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons