Parthian-class submarine
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HMS Phoenix, 1939
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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 |
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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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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.
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Boats
Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
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Pandora (ex-Python) | Vickers, Barrow | 22 August 1929 | Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta 1 April 1942. Raised in September 1943, but not repaired. Hulk scrapped in 1955. |
Parthian | Chatham Dockyard | 22 June 1929 | Lost between 6 August and 11 August 1943 in the Adriatic. Presumed mined. |
Perseus | Vickers, Barrow | 22 May 1929 | Most likely to have been 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 on 16 July 1940 in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily. |
Poseidon | Vickers, Barrow | 21 June 1929 | Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer on 9 June 1931. |
Proteus | Vickers, Barrow | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon. |
Notes
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References
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External links
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- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships