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HMS Sidon
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History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Sidon
Builder Cammell Laird Shipyard - Birkenhead
Laid down 7 July 1943
Launched 4 September 1944
Commissioned 23 November 1944
Fate
  • wrecked by own torpedo explosion 16 June 1955
  • refloated, sunk for target practice 14 June 1957
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General characteristics
Class and type S-class submarine
Displacement
  • 814-872 tons surfaced
  • 990 tons submerged
Length 217 ft (66 m)
Beam 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught 11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed
  • 14.75 knots (27 km/h) surfaced
  • 8 knots (15 km/h) submerged
Complement 48 officers and men
Armament
  • 6 × forward 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
  • 13 torpedoes
  • 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun
  • 1 × 20 mm cannon
  • 3 × .303-calibre machine gun

HMS Sidon was a submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S class built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead, named after the naval bombardment of Sidon in 1840. An explosion caused by a faulty torpedo sank her in Portland Harbour with the loss of 13 lives.

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