HMS Salmon (N65)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Salmon.
HMS Salmon was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in 1935, the boat fought in the Second World War. Salmon is one of twelve boats named in the song "Twelve Little S-Boats".
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Name | Salmon |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Laid down | 15 June 1933 |
Launched | 30 April 1934 |
Commissioned | 8 March 1935 |
Fate | Sunk on 9 July 1940 |
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Class and type | S-class submarine |
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Length | 208 ft 8 in (63.6 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 0 in (7.3 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 10 in (3.6 m) |
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Test depth | 300 feet (91.4 m) |
Complement | 40 |
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On 4 December 1939, Salmon became the first boat to sink a U-boat during the Second World War when it torpedoed and sank the German U-36 in the North Sea south-west of Kristiansand, Norway.[1]