HMS Scorcher

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as Scorcher16 March 1945 — 1962170 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Scorcher
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Ordered: 7 April 1943
Laid down: 14 December 1943
Launched: 18 December 1944
Commissioned: 16 March 1945
Fate: Broken up, 1962 (1962)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 872 long tons (886 t)
Displacement, submerged: 990 long tons (1,006 t)
Length: 66.14 m (217 ft)
Beam: 7.01 m (23 ft)
Draught: 3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed: 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
Complement: 48
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Scorcher was a S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 14 December 1943. She entered service on 16 March 1945, having been launched on 18 December 1944.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 872 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 14.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 48. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 170 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in 1962.

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

Armament and machinery

Armament: 6 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
13 torpedoes
one three-inch (76 mm) gun (QF 4-inch on later boats)
one 20 mm cannon
three .303-calibre machine gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Scorcher on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3688 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons