British Submarine HMS Sibyl

"Of all the branches of men in the Forces, there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariner.
Great deeds are done in the air and on the land; nevertheless, nothing surpasses your exploits." Winston Churchill.

"Only in attack does a submarine reveal herself, before creeping away to the concealment of the deep"

I received several images of HMS Sibyl. I checked up on a listing of British Submarines on http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/britsublist.html and Sibyl is listed thus:

Special Ops. Sometimes referred to as Sybil(?). Commanded by Lt. E.J.D. Turner, DSC, sailed 8-Nov-42 for a rendezvous on the south coast of France. Picked up seven staff officers and officials, including one woman, of General Giraud's staff. Took them to Algiers on 11-Nov. See also Seraph. Later in Eastern Fleet (Lt. H.R. Murray). An S3 class, pennant number P217; crew of 48. Launched at Cammell Laird Birkenhead on 1 April 1942 and ended her life as scrap on 1 Mar 1948.

Ship sunk by gunfire from HMS Sibyl in the Malacca Straits. The Straits were a particularly dangerous place for submarines, shallow waters and heavily patrolled as it was one of the main sea lanes down towards Singapore

Manning the machine gun - Sibyl

Manning the Main Gun

Sibyl at Sea

Sybil leaving harbour (or entering!)

Sybil in 1945

Image: Mike Caswell of Caswell Plating
HMS Sybil on the River Mersey 1. Cammell Laird 2. Birkenhead Town Hall
3. Hamilton Square Underground Station 4. Woodside Steam Terminal. Woodside Ferry is slightly off to the right of the image.
This image was taken from the region of Albert Dock, Liverpool.

Image by Mike Caswell of Casewell Plating
HMS Sybil in dock

Image by Mike Caswell of Casewell Plating
The painted symbol on the conning tower of HMS Sybil

Email: Dec 2010: The witch Sybil was the handy work of Arthur Morris my father in law who was on the Sybil and a gunner, Arthur died in 2002 but we have most of the photos you show on your web site. Apparently Arthur was told not to paint this on the conning tower but did so anyway and it proved to be so popular it was retained as their emblem. Arthur was quite handy and later painted a sign for the Old Jack Pub in Calverhall Shropshire which was run by his parents. Ken Harding. (Ken, please contact Mike Caswell - see advert at base of page)

Left the original and right, censored

Note: two hats – the number 3 has no hat badge; bushy haired guy under gun barrel seems to have beard; the distance of the shore line is also in sync. No 6 possibly photographer; note 7 people in each photo, only 6 semi-clad in second. The second pic was taken by either of the number 6 guys whilst the first was taken by the bloke fully clothed. Mike Caswell Jan 2009

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HMS Sybil working model - ( surface running only) by Caswell Models

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