Sportsman (P 229)
| 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. |
Sportsman (P 229)
Sportsman (P 229)
Sportsman (P 229)
Commanders
| 1942: | Lieutenant Richard Gatehouse DSC |
| 1944: | Lieutenant Peter Langly-Smith MID |
| 1945: | Lieutenant Commander Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell MBE DSC MID |
| 1948: | Acting Lieutenant Commander Huston Roe Murray MID |
P79(i)
1943-1944: Mediterranean
Sportsman was loaned to the French Navy for anti-submarine training and renamed Sibylle in 1951.
Events
| 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. |
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