| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | S2 |
| Fate: | Lost in the Bay of Biscay cause unknown on 11th February 1941. |
1935: Portsmouth.
1936-1939: Mediterranean.
1939: Home Waters.
Carried out patrols in North Sea, Skagerrak and Biscay in 1939. She was involved in the Norwegian campaign sinking one ship of 6,200 tons in addition to two small ships and two minesweepers of an aggregate 2,500 tons.
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| Bell, Alfred |
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| Connolly, Reuben MID |
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| Cooper, Arthur John DSM |
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| Dearn, Archie Sidney Albert |
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| Dobbie, Richard |
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| Dodson, Richard Arthur Wilkinson |
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| Doucy, Charles Arthur |
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| Farmer, Robert Gale |
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| Furlong, James William |
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| Gray, James Leonard |
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| Halloran, Daniel Patrick MID |
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| Hill, Walter Ernest Henry |
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| Hobbs, Ronald Arthur |
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| Jones, Kenneth Watkins |
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| Laker, John William |
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| Lawson, Myles Edward MID |
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| Matthews, Edward George MID |
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| McCleave, Thomas John |
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| Mellows, George Harry MID |
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| Munro, William |
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| Nesling, Reginald Ashton |
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| Palmer, Stephen |
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| Parsons, Victor John DSM |
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| Penny, Raymond Roy |
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| Pownall, Harold William |
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| Prowse, Geoffrey Vernon |
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| Rosewarne, William Alfred |
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| Stewart, Archibald DSM |
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| Straw, Clarence |
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| Talbot, Edward Bartle |
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| Thompson, Edward Hutchinson |
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| Undy, Joseph |
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| Watson, James |
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| White, Kenneth Rhesa |
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| White, Percival John |
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| Winder, John Thurston |
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| 18-09-1933 | Laid Down |
| 25-10-1934 | Launched |
| 14-06-1935 | Completed |
| 03-12-1939 | HMS Snapper is mistakenly attacked by a British aircraft when returning to Harwich after a patrol in the North Sea. Although suffering a direct hit no damage was done. |
| 12-04-1940 | HMS Snapper sinks the small German tanker Moonsund with gunfire off Larvik, Norway. |
| 14-04-1940 | While operating in the Skaggerak HMS Snapper torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Florida. |
| 15-04-1940 | Still operating in the Skaggerak HMS Snapper torpedoed and sinks the German auxiliary minesweepers M 1701/H.M. Behrens and M 1702/Carsten Janssen north-east of Skagen, Denmark. |
| 06-05-1940 | HMS Snapper attackes the German armed merchant cruiser Schiff 21/Widder with 2 torpedoes east of Denmark. However the torpedoes miss their target. |
| 25-06-1940 | HMS Snapper torpedoes and sinks the German armed trawler V 1107/Portland south of Stavanger, Norway. |
| 03-07-1940 | HMS Snapper torpedoes and sinks the Norwegian merchant Cygnus west of Hadryet, Norway. |
| 11-02-1941 | HMS Snapper sailed from the Clyde to patrol in the Bay of Biscay off Ushant. She was not heard from again. It is possible that she fell victem to German minefield. However it is also possible that she was sunk by German warships since a submarine attacked the German minesweepers M-2, M-13 and M-25 on the night of the 10/11th February in the area where Snapper might have been. The submarine was subjected to a counterattack in which 56 depth charges were dropped |
| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Displacement | 872 tons (surface) |
| 990 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 35 Ratings. |
| Note | (i) The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
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| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Displacement | 872 tons (surface) |
| 990 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 35 Ratings. |
| Note | (i) The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
The last of four Chinese Yuan diesel electric submarine has appeared. There was no official information released, but based on photos available it appears to be another development in China's taking Russian submarine technology and adapting it for Chinese designs.
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