sentences:  HMS "Splendid" was a third-group S-class submarine and was ordered as part of the 1941 Naval Programme on 14 October 1940.She was laid down in the Chatham Dockyard on 7 March 1941 and launched on 19 January 1942.On 8 August 1942, "Splendid", under the command of Lieutenant Ian McGeoch, was commissioned into the Royal Navy.