HMS Sidon (P259)
HMS Sidon | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Sidon |
| Builder | Cammell Laird Shipyard - Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 7 July 1943 |
| Launched | 4 September 1944 |
| Commissioned | 23 November 1944 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | S-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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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 men |
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HMS Sidon was a submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S class built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead, named after the naval bombardment of Sidon in 1840. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. An explosion caused by a faulty torpedo sank her in Portland Harbour with the loss of 13 lives in 1955.