HMS Amphion (P439)

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Career

Ordered:	Very late in World War II
Builder:	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	14 November 1943
Launched:	31 August 1944
Commissioned:	27 March 1945
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

HMS Amphion (P439), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 31 August 1944.

See HMS Amphion for other vessels of the same name.

HMS Amphion, later S-43, was the first of class to be launched in August 1944. She was originally down as HMS Anchorite (P422) but their names were exchanged before launch.

In the class only Amphion and HMS Astute (P447) were completed before the end of the war, and neither were involved in hostilities.

Amphion-class submarine