HMS Safari

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as Safari14 March 1942 — 7 January 19461,268 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Safari
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Ordered: 23 January 1940
Laid down: 5 June 1940
Launched: 18 November 1941
Commissioned: 14 March 1942
Fate: Sold for scrap, 7 January 1946
Sank while under tow, 8 January 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 842 long tons (856 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 Safari was a S-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 5 June 1940. Launched on 18 November 1941, she entered service on 14 March 1942.

111 ships of the class were built.

The boat displaced 842 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 1,268 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 7 January 1946.

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

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
Power: 1900 bhp (diesel)
1300 hp (electric)
Armament: 6 × bow 21 in torpedo tubes
1 × 3 in (76 mm) deck gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Safari on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 9628 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons