HMS Safari was launched in November 1941, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the H class submarines. ... Cammell Laird logo Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. ... Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ...

She spent most of World War II in the Mediterranean Sea and had a very successful time sinking many Italian ships. She is the subject of a popular book on submarines "Crash Dive" Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Alvin in 1978, a year after first exploring hydrothermal vents. ...

On 8 January 1946 she was being towed to the breakers yard to be scrapped when she sank in heavy seas with no crew on board. Today she is one of the best submarine dives in the English Channel, she lies on a rock seabed at a depth of 44m. Her brass conning tower has been removed as has the nose cone so the outer doors of the torpedo tubes are visible. January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: (IPA: ), the sleeve; Dutch: Het Kanaal) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ... A conning tower was an armoured observation post on a warship from where the vessel was controlled during a battle. ... The torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ...