HMS Vampire (P72)

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Career
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 9 November 1942
Launched: 20 July 1943
Commissioned: 13 November 1943
Fate: Scrapped at Gateshead, March 1950
General characteristics
Displacement:

Surfaced - 545 tons standard, 658 tons full load


Submerged - 740 tons
Length: 62.33 m (204 ft 6 in)
Beam: 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draught: 4.65 m (15 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:

2 shaft diesel-electric
2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors

615 / 825 hp
Speed:

11.25 knots max surfaced


10 knots max submerged
Complement: 33
Armament:

4 bow internal 21 inch torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes


1 - 3 inch gun

HMS Vampire (P72) was a Royal Navy V-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness.

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