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| HMS Snapper (39S) – THE SUBMARINE AND HER CREW WERE NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN |
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| USS Snapper (SS-185) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 February 1945. Original caption: “Photo # 19-N-80171 USS Snapper off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 24 February 1945” |
HMS Snapper (39S)
HMS Snapper was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in 1935, the boat participated in the Second World War. Snapper is one of the 12 boats named in the song “Twelve Little S-Boats“.
She left the Clyde on 29 January 1941 to patrol in the Bay of Biscay. She should have arrived in her patrol area on 1 February. She was ordered to remain on station until 10 February and then to return with her escort. Snapper failed to make the rendezvous with the escort and was not heard from again. It is believed that she met her fate through a mine or that she was mortally damaged by a minesweeper which attacked a submarine in Snapper’s area on 11 February, although Snapper should have been out of the area by then.[7] Other sources report that the S-class submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay south west of Ouessant, Finistère, France (47°25′N 5°47′W) by the German minesweepers M-2, M-13 and M-25 with the loss of all 41 crew.
USS Snapper (SS-185), a Salmon-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy of the name and the second to be named for the snapper. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 23 July 1936. She was launched on 24 August 1937, sponsored by Mrs. Katharine R. Stark, wife of Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, and commissioned on 16 December 1937.
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