Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS Seahorse (98S)
Service
- as Seahorse? — 22 December 1939112 days of the war
S-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Seahorse
- Builder
- Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered
- 16 March 1931
- Laid down
- 14 September 1931
- Launched
- 15 November 1932
- Fate
- Missing after 22 December 1939 (1939)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 730 long tons (742 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 927 long tons (942 t)
- Length
- 61.57 m (202 ft)
- Beam
- 7.32 m (24 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 13.8 knots (25.5 km/h, 15.8 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Seahorse was a S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. Chatham Dockyard laid her keel on 14 September 1931. She was launched on 15 November 1932.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
The boat displaced 730 long tons surfaced and 927 long tons submerged. She measured 61.6 m (202 ft) long with a beam of 7.3 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 13.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 38. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 1,550 bhp.
She was in commission for 112 days of the Second World War.
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
- 1550 bhp (diesel)
- 1300 hp (electric)
- Armament
- 6 × bow 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) deck 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 Seahorse (98S) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 18860 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons