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HMS Seawolf (N 47)

Submarine of the S class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassS 
PennantN 47 
Built byScotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 May, 1934 
Launched28 Nov, 1935 
Commissioned12 Mar, 1936 
End service23 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 23 June 1945. Sold to be broken up for scrap in November 1945. Scrapped at Montreal, Canada.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Wyndham Studholme, RN
7 February 1939 – 17 August 1940
DSO awarded on 28 June 1940

Lt. Patrick Lainson Field, RN
17 August 1940 – 9 October 1941

Lt. Richard Prendergast Raikes, RN
9 October 1941 – (? 11 ?) August 1942
DSO awarded on 16 June 1944

??? Lt. A.J.R. Whitehead, RN ???
11 August 1942 – August 1943

Lt. Denis Woolnough Mills, DSC, RN
August 1943 – 23 August 1944

Lt. B. Collins
23 August 1944 - 23 June 1945

HMS Seawolf is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy list 


Noteable events involving Seawolf include:

6 Oct, 1939
HMS Seawolf (Lt.Cdr. J.W. Studholme, RN) fires two torpedoes against the German light cruiser Nürnberg and the torpedo boat Falke in the Skagerrak about 35 nautical miles west of Skagen, Denmark in position 57º39'N 09º28'E. None of the targets was hit. (see map)

18 Apr, 1940
HMS Seawolf (Lt.Cdr. J.W. Studholme, RN) torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Hamm (5874 GRT) in the Skagerrak in position 58º09'N, 10º32'E. (see map)

22 Nov, 1941
HMS Seawolf (Lt. R.P. Raikes, RN) claims to have sunk the German merchant Bessheim (1774 GRT) off the Syltefjord. This can however not be the case as Bessheim was mined and sunk the previous day off Hammerfest. HMS Seawolf probably attacked another merchant.

6 Mar, 1942
HMS Seawolf (Lt. R.P. Raikes, RN) sighted the German battleship Tirpitz along with her escorting destroyers Paul Jacobi, Friedrich Ihn, Hermann Schoemann and Z-25. The German ships had sailed from Trondheim, Norway with the intention to attack convoy PQ-12. (see map)

29 Jan, 1943
HMS Seawolf arrives as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to aid in A/S training.


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