HMS Thor (P349)
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | April 5, 1943 |
| Launched: | April 18, 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped July 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | British T class submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged |
| Length: | 276 ft 6 in (84.3 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m) |
| Draught: |
12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) forward |
| Propulsion: |
Two shafts |
| Speed: |
15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement: | 61 |
| Armament: |
6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Thor (P349) was a Royal Navy Group Three T-class submarine laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard on April 5, 1943 and launched on April 18, 1944.
However the war ended before she was completed and she was sold for scrapping to Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd of Llanelli, Wales in July 1946. Her sister vessel Tiara was launched on the same day at Portsmouth dockyard and not completed either. She would have been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Thor, after the mythological norse god of thunder.[1]
[edit] References
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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