sentences:  HMS "Sickle" was a third-group S-class submarine and was ordered by the British Admiralty on 2 September 1940.She was laid down in the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead on 8 May 1941 and launched on 27 August 1942.On 28 November 1942, the boat, under the command of Lieutenant James Drummond, sailed to Holy Loch, where she was commissioned into the Royal Navy three days later.