HMS Seraph (P219)
HMS Seraph
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| Name: | HMS Seraph |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1940 |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong Ltd - Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 16 August 1940 |
| Launched: | 25 October 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 27 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 October 1962 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
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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: | 44 officers and men |
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HMS Seraph (pennant number P219) was an S-class submarine of the British Royal Navy. She carried out a number of intelligence and special operations activities during World War II, the most famous of which was Operation Mincemeat.
Seraph was one of the third batch of S-class submarines, built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 16 August 1940, launched on 25 October 1941 and commissioned on 27 June 1942. After going through her working up trials she carried out a fourteen-day patrol off Norway in July. On her way to the Mediterranean she was attacked in error by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber of the Royal Air Force at Cape Finisterre, although she did not suffer any damage.
She was afterwards assigned to the 8th Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean on 25 August; she found herself selected to carry out special operations duties. Of the missions she carried out, three stand out among the rest.
Seraph first saw action in support of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa; her first combat mission, under the command of Lieutenant Norman "Bill" Jewell, was carrying out a periscope reconnaissance of the Algerian coast during the last two weeks of September 1942.
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