HMS Simoom (P225)

HMS "Simoom" was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on October 12 1942.

Career

She served in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully attacked an unidentified merchant ship and later fired upon the Italian cruiser "Giuseppe Garibaldi". The torpedoes missed the cruiser but hit and sank the destroyer "Vincenzo Gioberti" instead.

Details after this are sketchy. She possibly sank the Italian merchant (in German service) "Trapani" and the Greek sailing vessel "Trias". [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3443.html HMS Simoom] , Uboat.net]

inking

"Simoom" went on patrol in the Aegean on November 2 1943. On the 5th she was diverted to the entrance of the Dardanelles. Ten days later she was sent ordered to return to port, but never arrived. On 15th November German radio broadcasts stated that a submarine had been destroyed in the Aegean and that several of the crew had been rescued. It is unlikely that this was "Simoom", as she would have been miles out of position, nor did any of the claimed survivors state that they were from "Simoom". It is more likely that the submarine struck a mine or was lost through an accident. [ [http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/general/losses.htm Submarine losses 1904 to present day] , RN Submarine Museum, Gosport]

References

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