HMS Sceptre (P215)
HMS Sceptre
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| Name: | HMS Sceptre |
| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | July 1940 |
| Launched: | 9 January 1943 |
| Commissioned: | April 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | February 1947 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap September 1949 |
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| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
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| Length: | 217 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Complement: | 48 officers and sailors |
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HMS Sceptre (P215) was a 1940-programme S-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 January 1943, in Greenock, although her keel had been laid down in July 1940.
In World War II, Sceptre joined the 3rd Submarine Flotilla in April 1943 and was based at Holy Loch. She then detached to Scapa Flow to be used for the Submarine Commanding Officer's Qualifying Course, the Perisher. Whilst exercising to the west of the Orkney Islands, she was depth charged in error by the Royal Air Force and her hull was slightly buckled, which required docking for repairs.
After an uneventful first patrol, she was fitted with special towing gear and proceeded to Loch a' Chàirn Bhàin. Here she joined up with two T-class and three S-class submarines, together with the depot ships Titania and Bonadventure, the latter being the depot ship for the X-craft midget submarines. Sceptre left Loch Cairnbawn on 12 September 1943, with X-10 in tow. The aim was to attack the German battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjord. This attack was intended to remove the threat of the German battleship to convoys on their way to Russia. Six X-craft were used to attack shipping in the fjords, with the attack on Tirpitz putting her out of action for nearly a year.
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