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| Career |
 |
| Ordered: |
na |
| Laid down: |
na |
| Launched: |
19th March 1934 |
| Commissioned: |
1942 |
| Decommissioned: |
|
| Fate: |
Scrapped January 1st 1946 |
| Struck: |
|
| General Characteristics |
| Displacement: |
880/1,230 tons (surface/submerged) |
| Length: |
231 feet (70.5 metres) |
| Beam: |
22.5 feet (6.87 metres) |
| Draught: |
13.5 feet (4.12 metres) |
| Propulsion & power: |
na |
| Speed: |
17/7.7 knots (surface/submerged) |
| Range: |
na |
| Diving depth (feet): |
|
| Complement: |
55 |
| Armament (submerged): |
Torpedo: 8 torpedo tubes |
| Armament (surface): |
2*3.9" main deck guns, 2*light AA guns |
| Motto: |
Unknown |
HM Submarine X1 was the name given to the former Italian submarine Galileo Galilei (captured by the Royal Navy in June 1940) when she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in June 1942 as a training submarine in the Far East. She was later renamed as P711.
