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|Ship name= ''SAS Emily Hobhouse'' (until 1994, when renamed ''SAS Umkhonto'')
|Ship namesake= [[Emily Hobhouse]] was a British humanitarian in South Africa during the Boer War. Umkhonto is the Zulu word for "spear"
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The '''SAS Umkhonto (S98)''', formerly the '''SAS Emily Hobhouse''', was the second of three French-built [[Daphné class submarine|Daphné class]] submarines ordered by the [[South African Navy]] in 1968. Laid down in December 1968 and launched 24 October 1969 and commissioned into the South African Navy under the command of Lt Cdr [[Lambert Jackson Woodburne|Lambert Jackson "Woody" Woodburne]] on 26 February 1971.<ref name=couhat>{{cite book|last=Couhat|first=Jean|title=Combat Fleets of the World 77|publisher=Ignatius Press|location=San Francisco|year=Year|isbn=0-87021-183-8}}</ref> The submarine was decommissioned in 2003 and scrapped in 2008.

==Ship Name==
The ''SAS Umkhonto'' was originally named ''SAS Emily Hobhouse'' after [[Emily Hobhouse]], a British humanitarian and philanthropist [[Cornish people|of Cornish descent]], who was present in South Africa during the [[Boer War]]. She was later made an honorary citizen of [[South Africa]]. Beginning in 1994, with the end of [[Apartheid in South Africa|apartheid and white rule]], ships bearing names of noted [[white South African]] figures were all renamed without exception. [http://isizulu.net ''Umkhonto''] is the [[Zulu language|Zulu]] word for spear.

==Operational history==
In 1972, the ''SAS Emily Hobhouse'' landed Special Forces troops, led by Commandant [[Jan Breytenbach]] near [[Dar es Salaam]].<ref name="stiff"/> The Special Forces team placed explosives on a bridge, power lines and targets around town. While making the pickup rendezvous, the submarine snagged a fishing net and sunk the fishing vessel dragging the net.<ref name="stiff">{{cite book|last=Stiff|first=Peter|title=The Silent War|year=1999|publisher=Galago Publishing|isbn=0620243007|pages=50, 51}}</ref> 

In 1982, the ''SAS Emily Hobhouse'' was part of a submarine officer commanding course exercise occurring 80 miles off [[Cape Point]] on 17 February. Her mission was to pass through the security screen provided by the frigates ''[[SAS President Kruger]]'' (F150), and ''SAS President Pretorius'' (F145) and simulate an attack on the [[replenishment oiler|replenishment ship]], the ''[[SAS Tafelberg]]'' (A23), which the frigates were protecting. The heavy seas were causing clutter on the radar screens and the execution of a WWII-era convoy maneuver in the rough seas ended in a collision at 4:23am between the ''Tafelberg'' and the ''President Kruger'' which resulted in minor damage to the ''Tafelberg'' and the sinking of the ''President Kruger'' on the morning of 18 February with a loss of 16 lives.<ref name=saspk>SA FRIGATE GOES DOWN. ''SAS PRESIDENT KRUGER'', 4 June 2010. [http://saspresidentkruger.com/pageID_8128624.html see here]; accessed 4 June 2010 (archived by  [http://www.webcitation.org/5qEDl4xh3 WebCite])</ref> The ''SAS Umkhonto'' was paid off in 2003 and scrapped in 2008.<ref>[http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=884&catid=51:Sea&Itemid=106 ''SAS Assegaai'' to be preserved as museum], Defenceweb.co.za; accessed 4 December 2013.</ref>

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