HMS Sceptre (P215)
Service
- as Sceptre15 April 1943 — February 1947871 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Sceptre
- Pennant / hull number
- P215
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- 23 January 1940
- Laid down
- 25 July 1940
- Launched
- 6 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 15 April 1943
- Decommissioned
- February 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, September 1949 (1949)
- 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 Sceptre was a S-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P215. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock on 25 July 1940. Launched on 6 January 1943, she entered service on 15 April 1943.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
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 871 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in February 1947.
She was broken up for scrap in September 1949.
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 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 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 Sceptre (P215) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3139 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons