Sea Nymph (P 223)
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Troon 6/48 |
Sea Nymph (P 223)
Sea Nymph (P 223)
Commanders
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson Milner | DSC |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | John Philip Holroyde Oakley | DSC |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Derrick George Kent | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell | MBE DSC MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Marcel Ivan Usher |
One of the Home Station submarines which were used in the towing of X-craft to Altenfjord for Operation Source, the attack on the Tirpitz in September 1943. Sea Nymph towed X8.
Related Pages
Operation Source - September 1943
In September 1943 six in X-Craft were towed by six Submarines to attack German Capital Ships in the Kaa Fjord in Norway. In all (apart from the Towing Submarine Crew) forty-two X- Craft personnel took part in Operation Source, eighteen Passage Crew Members and twenty-four Operational Crew Members.
Events
| 06-05-1941 | Laid Down |
| 27-07-1942 | Launched |
| 03-11-1942 | Completed |
| 13-07-1943 | While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay Sea Nymph fires 6 torpedoes at the German submarine U-592. The torpedoes however miss their target. |
| 01-03-1944 | HMS Sea Nymph fires four torpedoes against the Norwegian merchant Jupiter near Bodo, Norway. All torpedoes fired missed their target. |
| 03-03-1944 | HMS Sea Nymph fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Levante near Bodo, Norway. All torpedoes missed their target. |
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