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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship class=S-class submarine | Ship name=Scorcher | Ship ordered=7 April 1943 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | Ship laid down=14 December 1943 | Ship launched=18 December 1944 | Ship christened= | Ship commissioned=16 March 1945 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship badge= | Ship fate=broken up, 1962
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship displacement=*814-872 tons surfaced | Ship tons burthen= | 217|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 23|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 11|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship propulsion= | Ship speed=*14.75 knots surfaced | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=48 oficers and men | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*6 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft- 13 torpedoes
- one three-inch (76 mm) gun gun (QF 4-inch on later boats)
- one 20 mm cannon
- three .303-calibre machine gun
}} | HMS Scorcher was an S-class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on 18 December 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Scorcher. She was launched by Thomas Beacham, a Foreman Driller employed by Cammell Laird. Built as the Second World War was drawing to a close, she did not see much action. Along with her sisters, HMS Sirdar and Scythian, Scorcher took part in the search for the missing HMS Affray in 1951. Scorcher too had her fair share of accidents. She was damaged in a collision on 4 February 1956, and suffered a fire during exercises on 22 November 1956.[1] In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[2] Scorcher was eventually paid off and broken up at Charlestown in 1962. References1. ^HMS Scorcher, Uboat.net
2. ^Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
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