HMS Scotsman (P243)

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HMS Scotsman
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Class and type: S class submarine
Name: HMS Scotsman
Ordered: 20 December 1941
Builder: Scotts, Greenock
Laid down: 15 April 1943
Launched: August 18, 1944
Commissioned: 9 December 1944
Fate: broken up November 1964
General characteristics
Displacement: 814-872 tons surfaced
990 tons submerged
Length: 217 ft (66 m)
Beam: 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed: 14.75 knots surfaced
8 knots submerged
Complement: 48 officers and men
Armament: 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft
13 torpedoes
one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats)
one 20 mm cannon
three .303-calibre machine gun

HMS Scotsman was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Scotts, of Greenock and launched on August 18, 1944.

She survived the Second World War and was eventually sold. Scotsman arrived at Troon on November 19, 1964 for breaking up.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ HMS Scotsman, Uboat.net
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