Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS Sleuth
Service
- as HMS Sleuth8 October 1944 — 1958329 days of the war
S-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Sleuth
- Builder
- Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
- Laid down
- 30 June 1943
- Launched
- 6 July 1944
- Commissioned
- 8 October 1944
- Fate
- broken up 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 814 long tons (827 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
- 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
- Range
- 7,500 nmi (13,890 km)
- Complement
- 48
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Sleuth was a S-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead laid her keel on 30 June 1943. She entered service on 8 October 1944, having been launched on 6 July 1944.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
The boat displaced 814 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 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 1,900 bhp.
She was in commission for 329 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
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
- 6 × bow 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × 4-inch (102 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 Sleuth on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3735 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons