HMS Surf

S-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Surf18 March 1943 — 28 October 1949899 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Surf
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Launched: 10 December 1942
Commissioned: 18 March 1943
Fate: Sold 28 October 1949 (1949)
Status: Unknown

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 842 long tons (856 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 Surf was a S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. Launched on 10 December 1942, she entered service on 18 March 1943.

Her class ran to 111 ships.

The boat displaced 842 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 899 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

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 deck gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Surf on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 19506 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons