HMS Sealion (S07)

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Name HMS Sealion (S07) Laid down 5 June 1958 Decommissioned December 1987 Construction started 5 June 1958 Builder Cammell Laird		Namesake Sealion Commissioned 25 July 1961 Fate Scrapped 1990 Launched 31 December 1959

HMS Sealion (S07) was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 5 June 1958 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She was launched on 31 December 1959, and commissioned on 25 July 1961.

Sealion attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead when she was part of the Submarine Flotilla.

Sealion was paid off in December 1987 and sold to an Education Trust for deprived inner city youngsters "Inter Action", arriving at Chatham on June 22, 1988.

She was broken up in 1990.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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HMS Sealion (S07) Wikipedia

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