Career (UK) | |
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Name: | HMS Swiftsure |
Operator: | Royal Navy |
Builder: | Vickers |
Launched: | 7 September 1971 |
Commissioned: | 17 April 1973 |
Decommissioned: | 1992 |
Fate: | Decommissioned |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Swiftsure-class submarine |
Displacement: | 4,900 tonnes (dived) |
Length: | 82.9 m (272 ft 0 in) |
Beam: | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
Draught: | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Speed: | In excess of 20 knots (37 km/h), dived |
Complement: | 116 officers and men |
Armament: | 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes RN Sub Harpoon missiles |
HMS Swiftsure (S126) was the lead ship of her class of nuclear fleet submarines. HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials.
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