HMS Ambush (P418)
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| Career |  |
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| 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 |
| 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) or 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 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 Ambush (P418), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 24 September 1945.
See HMS Ambush for other vessels of the same name.
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