HMS ''Sea Devil'' was a
S-class submarine
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of the third batch built for the
Royal Navy
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during World War II. She survived the war and was sold for scrap in 1966.
Design and description
The third batch was slightly enlarged and improved over the preceding second batch of the S-class. The submarines had a length of
overall, a
beam
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Streams of particles or energy
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**Laser beam
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**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draft of . They
displaced on the surface and submerged.
[Chesneau, p. 51] The S-class submarines had a crew of 48 officers and
ratings. ''Sea Devil'' had thicker hull plating which increased her diving depth to .
[McCartney, p. 7]
For surface running, the boats were powered by two
diesel engine
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s, each driving one
propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a
electric motor
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. They could reach on the surface and underwater. ''Sea Devil'' could carry more fuel than most of the third batch boats and had a range of on the surface at and at submerged.
[
''Sea Devil'' was armed with six ]torpedo tube
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There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboa ...
s in the bow. She carried six reload torpedoes for a total of a dozen torpedoes. Twelve mines could be carried in lieu of the internally stowed torpedoes. The boat was also equipped with a deck gun.
Construction and career
HMS ''Sea Devil'' was launched late in the Second World War
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, on 30 January 1945. Thus far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name ''Sea Devil''. Her late commissioning meant that she was still on passage to the Far East when the war ended and therefore did not see any action.Yellow Duckling Yellow Duckling was an early development of an infrared linescan camera, developed for the detection of submarines during the Cold War. The name is one of the series of British List of Rainbow Codes, Rainbow Codes.
Origins
Infrared detection syst ...
infrared linescan system for detecting the wake of submerged submarines.
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British S-class submarines (1931)
1945 ships
World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Clyde
Royal Navy ship names