HMS Sickle

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as Sickle1 December 1942 — 14 June 1944561 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Sickle
Namesake: Sickle
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Ordered: 2 September 1940
Laid down: 8 May 1941
Launched: 27 August 1942
Commissioned: 1 December 1942
Fate: Missing after 14 June 1944 (1944)
Status: Unknown

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 Sickle was a S-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Sickle. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 8 May 1941. Launched on 27 August 1942, she entered service on 1 December 1942.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

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 561 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

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

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Sickle on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 19026 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons