HMS Sealion (72S)

HMS Sealion ( N72 ) was a submarine of the Royal Navy in World War II.

History

The Sealion (English: Lion ) belonged to the second assembly of the successful S-Class. This building lot is known as Shark class. She was laid down on 16 May 1933 Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on Kiel, expired on March 16, 1934 from the pile and was put into service by the Royal Navy on 21 December 1934.

After the outbreak of World War II on 1 September 1939, the submarine was used in the North Sea.

On November 6, 1939, the Sealion attacked on the Dogger Bank in position 55 ° 10 ' N, 2 ° 11' O55.1666666666672.1833333333333 the German submarine U 21 unsuccessful with six torpedoes.

The British submarine was used by the company known as Weserübung German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 against Norway. The inserts two opposing transport units were sunk and destroyed a previously stranded ship.

After the Franco-German armistice on 22 June 1940, the Sealion was no longer used only in the North but also in the Bay of Biscay. Until the end of 1941, six more enemy ships are sunk.

HMS Sealion was sunk on March 3, 1945 as a sonar target practice off the Isle of Arran.