HMS Stygian

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Stygian29 February 1944 — 29 October 1949552 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Stygian
Builder: Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead
Laid down: 6 January 1943
Launched: 30 November 1943
Commissioned: 29 February 1944
Decommissioned: 29 October 1949
Fate: Sold for scrapping 28 October 1949 (1949)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 872 long tons (886 t)
Displacement, submerged: 990 long tons (1,006 t)
Length: 66.14 m (217 ft)
Beam: 7.01 m (23 ft)
Draught: 3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed: 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
Complement: 48
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Stygian was a S-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead laid her keel on 6 January 1943. Launched on 30 November 1943, she entered service on 29 February 1944.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 872 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 one 76 mm (3 in) guns.

She was in commission for 552 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 October 1949.

She was broken up for scrap on 28 October 1949.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament: 6 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
13 torpedoes
1 × 3 in gun
1 × 20 mm cannon
3 × .303-calibre machine guns

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Stygian on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10447 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons