HMS Artful (P456)

Career

Ordered:	Very late in World War II
Builder:	Scotts of Greenock
Laid down:	June 8, 1944
Launched:	May 22, 1944
Commissioned:	February 23, 1948
Decommissioned:	1971
Status:	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 16 June 1972. Broken up at Cairnryan in June 1972
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 Artful (P456), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. of Greenock and launched May 22, 1944.

For other vessels of the same name see HMS Artful.

Amphion-class submarine