Seawolf (N 47)
| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | S2 |
| Fate: | HMS Seawolf arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1943 to help the Royal Canadian Navy in anti-submarine warfare training. Seawolf was sold for breaking up in November 1945 to Marine Industries, of Montreal. |
Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf
Commanders
| 1935: | Lieutenant | Edward Christian Frederic Nicolay | |
| 1937: | Lieutenant Commander | Eric Alonzo Stocker | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | Edward Christian Frederic Nicolay | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | John Wyndham Studholme | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Richard Prendergast Raikes | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Frederick Danford Gordon Challis | DSC MID |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Denis Woolnough Mills | DSC |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Bruce Collins | MID |
| 1945: | Acting Lieutenant | Willard Wayne Holmes (RCNVR) |
1936-1939: Portsmouth.
1940: 3rd Flotilla. HMS Cyclops, Harwich.
1941: Detached. Polyarnoe, Nr. Murmansk.
Was part of the submarine force which was in the Kattegat and off the coast of Norway during the German invasion of Norway.
Sank one ship of 4,200 tons whilst deployed at Polyarnoe.
Carried out convoy duties with Russian convoy May/June 1942.
In 1937 she was fitted experimentally with the type 129 asdic.
Events
| 25-05-1934 | Laid Down |
| 28-11-1935 | Launched |
| 12-03-1936 | Completed |
| 06-10-1939 | HMS Sea Wolf fires two torpedoes against the a German light cruiser and the torpedo boat Falke in the Skagerrak about 35 nautical miles west of Skagen, Denmark. None of the targets was hit. |
| 18-04-1940 | Sank the German ship Hamm off the Skaw, 5,874 tons. |
| 04-07-1940 | Landed agents on Ullers Island |
| 22-11-1941 | HMS Sea Wolf sinks the German merchant ship off the Syltefjord. |
| 29-01-1943 | HMS Sea Wolf arrives as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to aid in A/S training. |
| 23-06-1945 | HMS Sea Wolf paid off |
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