HMS Starfish (19S)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Starfish.
HMS Starfish was a first-batch S-class submarine (often called the Swordfish class) built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Completed in 1933, she participated in the Second World War.
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Name | Starfish |
Ordered | 16 March 1931 |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down | 29 September 1931 |
Launched | 14 March 1933 |
Commissioned | 27 October 1933 |
Fate | Sunk, 9 January 1940 |
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Class and type | S-class submarine |
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Length | 202 ft 6 in (61.7 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 11 in (3.6 m) |
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Range | 3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surface; 64 nmi (119 km; 74 mi) at 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) submerged |
Test depth | 300 feet (91.4 m) |
Complement | 38 |
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During the war, Starfish, part of the 2nd Submarine Flotilla, conducted five uneventful war patrols in the North Sea. On 9 January 1940, during her sixth patrol, she attacked a German minesweeper off Heligoland Bight, but after the attack failed and her diving planes jammed, Starfish was repeatedly attacked with depth charges. Badly damaged, she was forced to surface, and sank after all her crew were rescued by German ships.