HMS Anchorite (P422)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Ordered: Very late in World War II
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 22 January 1946
Commissioned: 18 November 1947
Fate: Sold to be broken up for scrap on 28 July 1970. Scrapped at Troon, Scotland in August 1970.
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 (1,603 kW) Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp (466 kW) electric motors for submergence driving two shafts
Speed: 18.5/8 knots (surface/submerged)
Range: 10,500 nautical miles (19,450 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 Anchorite (P422), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 22 January 1946.

During build and before launch the names of Anchorite and HMS Amphion (P439) were switched.

In the early 1960s HMS Anchorite hit an uncharted rock in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, New Zealand. The rock is now known as Anchorite Rock on the nautical charts of the area at depth, 16 m, 36°26′S, 175°8′E.