Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS Snapper (39S)
Service
- as Snapper? — 29 January 1941515 days of the war
S-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Snapper
- Builder
- Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered
- 13 June 1933
- Laid down
- 18 September 1933
- Launched
- 25 October 1934
- Fate
- Missing after 29 January 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 768 long tons (780 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 960 long tons (975 t)
- Length
- 63.4 m (208 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
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 40
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Snapper was a S-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Chatham Dockyard laid her keel on 18 September 1933. She was launched on 25 October 1934.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
The boat displaced 768 long tons surfaced and 960 long tons submerged. She measured 63.4 m (208 ft) long with a beam of 7.3 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 13.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 40. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 1,550 bhp.
She was in commission for 515 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 Snapper (39S) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3629 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons