 HMS Phoenix, 1939
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Parthian class |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Odin class |
| Succeeded by | Rainbow class |
| In commission | 1929–1946 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Lost | 5 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | Submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 289 ft (88 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Complement | 53 |
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The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
Boats
| Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pandora (ex-Python) | Vickers, Barrow | 22 August 1929 | Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955 |
| Parthian | Chatham Dockyard | 22 June 1929 | Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August – 11 August 1943 |
| Perseus | Vickers, Barrow | 22 May 1929 | Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941 |
| Phoenix | Cammell Laird | 3 October 1929 | Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940 |
| Poseidon | Vickers, Barrow | 21 June 1929 | Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s[2] |
| Proteus | Vickers, Barrow | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped at Troon, March 1946 |
References
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
- ^ Ryall, Julian (12 June 2009). Written at Weihai. "China accused of secretly salvaging sunken British submarine containing 18 lost sailors". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
Bibliography
- Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7.
- Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6.
- Caruana, Joseph (2012). "Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII". Warship International. LXIX (4): 357–364. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. Vol. 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parthian class submarine.
- "Parthian class submarine". Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2006.
- "Parthian class". rnsubs.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- "HMS Pandora". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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