HMS Anchorite (P422)

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Career

Ordered:	Very late in World War II
Builder:	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:
Launched:	22 January 1946
Commissioned:	18 November 1947
Status:	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 28 July 1970. Scrapped at Troon, Scotland in August 1970.
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged)
Length:	293 ft 6 in
Beam:	22 ft 4 in
Draught:	18 ft 1 in
Propulsion:	2 × 2,150 hp Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp electric motors for submergence driving two shafts
Speed:	18.5/8 knots (surface/submerged)
Range:	10,500 miles at 11 knots surfaced 16 miles at 8 knots or 90 miles at 3 knots submerged
Test depth:	350 ft
Complement:	5 officers 55 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21" (2 external)bow torpedo tube, 4 × 21" (2 external) stern torpedo tube, containing a total of 20 torpedoes Mines: 26 1 × 4" main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun

HMS Anchorite (P422), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 22 January 1946.

During build and before launch the names of Anchorite and HMS Amphion (P439) were switched.

In the early 1960s HMS Anchorite hit an uncharted rock in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, New Zealand. The rock is now known as Anchorite Rock on the nautical charts of the area at depth, 16 m, 36°26′S 175°8′E.

Amphion-class submarine