HMS P47
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|HNLMS Dolfijn}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2018}}
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HMS P47 was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong. She was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy before completion and renamed HNLMS Dolfijn.
Career
=September 1942 ― February 1943=
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Dolfijn spent the time between September 1942 and January 1943 carrying out trials with the 3rd Flotilla, in Holy Loch. In January she was assigned to the 8th Flotilla, at Algiers, and between November and December 1943, to the 10th Flotilla, at Malta. Whilst on her first war patrol she attacked a so far unidentified German submarine but missed her. On 9 February 1943, she torpedoed and sank the Italian {{sclass|Perla|submarine}} {{ship|Italian submarine|Malachite||2}} near Cape Spartivento, Sardinia, Italy. She went on to sink the Italian merchant ship Egle, the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V50 / Adalia, the Italian sailing vessel Stefano Galleano and four other sailing vessels, including the Greek Hydrea and Theonie, as well as two small German vessels.
She also damaged the Italian merchantmen Humanitas and Sabia, and launched unsuccessful attacks against the German merchant vessels Oria and Leda (the former Italian Leopardi). The attack on Leda was foiled by the escorting German destroyer TA14. Dolfijn also torpedoed the wreck of the French merchant ship Dalny and attacked a small convoy with gunfire, firing 16 rounds and hitting the barge Vidi twice. Dolfijn was forced to break off the action and submerge due to swift return fire.
=December 1943 ― May 1952=
Between December 1943 and March 1944, Dolfijn was part of the 1st Flotilla, at Beirut. She eventually returned to the UK with convoys and was refitted at Dundee. After the war, she became a training boat for the technische opleiding (TOKM) in Amsterdam between 1947 and 1952.{{cite magazine |date=January 1981 |title=Onderzeeboot-historie: Onderzeedienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog – Hr.Ms. Dolfijn. |url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-004.pdf |magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater|location=Den Helder|publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging|pages=19–20|issue=4|language=Dutch}} She was decommissioned and nominally returned to the Royal Navy but was broken up in the Netherlands in May 1952.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2908.html | title= HMS P47 | work= uboat.net}}
- {{cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page6.html | title= P32 to P222 | work= British submarines of World War II | access-date= 15 July 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070711184647/http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page6.html | archive-date= 11 July 2007 | url-status= dead }}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Robert |title=Jane's submarines : war beneath the waves from 1776 to the present day |date=2001 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=London |isbn=978-0007105588}}
Further reading
- {{cite magazine |last=van Toor |first=C. |url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-086.pdf |date=December 2003 |title= Herinneringen aan Hr. Ms. Dolfijn (ex P-47)|magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater |volume=27|issue=86|location=Den Helder |publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging |pages=1–8 |language=Dutch}}
{{British U class submarine|others}}
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Category:British U-class submarines
Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
Category:World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Category:British U-class submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy