HMS Salmon (N65)
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| Name | HMS Salmon |
| Builder | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 15 June 1933 |
| Launched | April 30, 1934 |
| Commissioned | 8 March 1935 |
| Fate | Sunk 9 July 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 670 tons surfaced 960 tons submerged |
| Length | 208 ft 9 in (63.63 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Propulsion | Twin diesel/electric |
| Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 13.75 knots surfaced 10 knots submerged |
| Complement | 39 officers and men |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes one three-inch gun one .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Salmon was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched on April 30, 1934, and fought in the Second World War. Salmon is one of 12 boats named in the song "Twelve Little S-Boats".
On December 4, 1939, while on patrol in the North Sea, Salmon topedoed and sank U-36.[1]
On December 12, 1939, Salmon sighted the German liner SS Bremen. While challenging Bremen, an escorting Dornier Do 18 seaplane forced Salmon to dive. After diving the Salmon's commander, Lieutenant Commander E. O. Bickford, decided not to torpedo the liner because he believed she was not a legal target.[2] Bickford's decision not to fire on Bremen likely delayed the start of unrestricted submarine warfare in the war.[1]
On December 13, 1939, Salmon sighted a fleet of German warships. She fired a spread of torpedoes which damaged two German cruisers (one was German cruiser Leipzig, the other, her younger sister ship, German cruiser Nürnberg). Salmon evaded the fleet's destroyers, which hunted her for two hours.[1][2]
She was lost, probably sunk by a mine, on July 9, 1940.
References
- ^ a b c Huchthausen, Peter A. (2005). Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 164, 227. ISBN 0471457582. OCLC 55764562.
- ^ a b http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/salmon.html
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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