HMS Sea Rover

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as Sea Rover7 July 1943 — October 1949788 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Sea Rover
Builder: Scotts, Greenock
Ordered: 4 April 1940
Laid down: 14 April 1941
Launched: 25 February 1943
Commissioned: 7 July 1943
Fate: Sold for scrap, October 1949 (1949)
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 Sea Rover was a S-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Scotts, Greenock laid her keel on 14 April 1941. She entered service on 7 July 1943, having been launched on 25 February 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 788 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in October 1949.

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: 7 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 × bow, 1 × stern)
1 × 3 in (76 mm) deck gun
1 × 20 mm AA gun (possibly added later)

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Sea Rover on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3847 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons