HMS Ambush (P418)

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Career

Ordered:	Very late in World War II
Builder:	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	17 May 1945
Launched:	24 September 1945
Commissioned:	22 July 1947
Decommissioned:	November 1967
Status:	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 24 June 1971. Scrapped at Inverkeithing in July 1971.
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