| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | She was lost off Toulon on 24 September 1952. The entire crew of 47 officers and men went down with the ship. |
P79(i)
1943-1944: Mediterranean
Sportsman was loaned to the French Navy for anti-submarine training and renamed Sibylle in 1951.
| 01-07-1941 | Laid Down |
| 17-04-1942 | Launched |
| 21-12-1942 | Completed |
| 19-05-1943 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the French passenger ship General Bonaparte off Nice, southern France. |
| 26-05-1943 | HMS Sportsman fires 6 torpedoes at the French tanker Marguerite Finaly off southern France. The torpedoes however miss the target. |
| 29-06-1943 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Bolzaneto 10 nautical miles bearing 270 of La Spezia, Italy. |
| 01-07-1943 | HMS Sportsman attacks a landing craft with gunfire in the Ligurian Sea off Porto Maurizio. The attack had to be broken off because the gun jammed. |
| 06-09-1943 | HMS Sportsman sinks the Italian fishing vessels Angiolina P and Maria Luisa B with gunfire in the port of Al'ria, Corsica, France. |
| 28-09-1943 | HMS Sportsman sinks the Italian sailing vessel Angiolina off Corsica. |
| 15-11-1943 | HMS Sportsman sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire between Naxos and Mykonos, Greece. |
| 19-12-1943 | HMS Sportsman sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire south of Lemnos Island, Greece. |
| 21-12-1943 | HMS Sportsman attacks and damages the Greek sailing vessel Spiridon with gunfire south of Lemnos island. |
| 23-12-1943 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the Bulgarian troop transport Balkan south of Moudros, Lemnos Island, Greece. |
| 08-02-1944 | HMS Sportsman torpedoed & sank the German POW Transport Petrella north of Suda Bay, Crete. 2,670 out of 3,173 Italian POWs where killed. German Guards did not open the POW rooms and fired at them while they tried to break out |
| 28-03-1944 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the small German tanker MT 3/Vienna off Monemvassia, Greece. |
| 31-03-1944 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the German sailing vessel Grauer Ort off Cape Maleas, Greece. |
| 28-04-1944 | HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Leneburg north of Iraklion, Crete, Greece. |
| 24-09-1952 | She was lost off Toulon on 24 September 1952. The entire crew of 47 officers and men went down with the ship. |
| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| 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 43 Ratings |
| Note | 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. |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in 1965 | |
World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.
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| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| 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 43 Ratings |
| Note | 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. |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in 1965 | |
World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.
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