HMS Simoom (P225)
Service
- as Simoom30 December 1942 — 19 November 1943326 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Simoom
- Pennant / hull number
- P225
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 2 September 1940
- Laid down
- 14 July 1941
- Launched
- 12 October 1942
- Commissioned
- 30 December 1942
- Fate
- Sunk, 4–19 November 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
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 Simoom was a S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P225. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 14 July 1941. She entered service on 30 December 1942, having been launched on 12 October 1942.
111 ships of the class were built.
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 326 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 19 November 1943, at 44°04′N 9°32′E. The wreck survives.
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 (76 mm) 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 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 Simoom (P225) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 19059 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons