HMS Sunfish (81S)
Service
- as Sunfish2 July 1937 — 19441,945 days of the war
- as V 11944 — 27 July 1944208 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Sunfish
- Builder
- Chatham Dockyard
- Laid down
- 22 July 1935
- Launched
- 30 September 1936
- Commissioned
- 2 July 1937
- Fate
- Sunk, 27 July 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 670 long tons (681 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 960 long tons (975 t)
- Length
- 63.4 m (208 ft)
- Beam
- 7.32 m (24 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 13.8 knots (25.5 km/h, 15.8 mph)
- Complement
- 39
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Sunfish was a S-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Chatham Dockyard laid her keel on 22 July 1935. She entered service on 2 July 1937, having been launched on 30 September 1936.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
The boat displaced 670 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 39.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Navy as Sunfish until 1944. She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as V 1 from 1944. She was in commission for 2,153 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 27 July 1944, at 54°28′N 7°11′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
- Twin diesel/electric
- Armament
- 6 × bow 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in deck gun
- 1 × .303 in machine 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 Sunfish (81S) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Pelman, L (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30369/large.jpg This photograph A 20288 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons