HMS Alaric (P441)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Ordered: Very late in World War II
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down: 31 May 1945
Launched: 18 May 1946
Commissioned: 11 December 1946
Decommissioned: 1971
Fate: 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 (89.5 m)
Beam: 22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
Draught: 18 ft 1 in (5.5 m)
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 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced
16 nautical miles (30 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) submerged
90 nautical miles (170 km) at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged
Test depth: 350 ft (110 m)
Complement: 5 officers 55 enlisted
Armament: 6 × 21" (2 external) bow torpedo tubes, 4 × 21" (2 external) stern torpedo tubes, 20 torpedoes
Mines: 26
1 × 4" main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun

HMS Alaric (P441), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched 18 February 1946.