Parthian-class submarine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Class overview
HMS Phoenix, 1939
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Odin-class submarine
Succeeded by:	Rainbow-class submarine
In commission:	1929—1946
Completed:	6
Lost:	5
General characteristics ^[1]
Displacement:	1,760 long tons (1,790 t) surfaced 2,040 long tons (2,070 t) submerged
Length:	289 ft (88 m)
Beam:	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draught:	16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric 2 × Admiralty diesel engines, 4,640 hp 2 × electric motors, 1,635 hp 2 shafts
Speed:	17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) surfaced 8.6 kn (9.9 mph; 15.9 km/h) submerged
Complement:	53
Armament:	• 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads<br/ > • 1 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk XII deck gun<br/ > After 1942 : • 2 × 20 mm machine guns • Equipped to lay mines through torpedo tubes

The Parthian class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These ships were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.

Ships

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
Pandora (ex-Python)	Vickers, Barrow	22 August 1929	Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta 1 April 1942. Raised in September 1943, but not repaired. Hulk scrapped in 1955.
Parthian	Chatham Dockyard	22 June 1929	Lost between 6 August and 11 August 1943 in the Adriatic. Presumed mined.
Perseus	Vickers, Barrow	22 May 1929	Most likely to have been Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941.
Phoenix	Cammell Laird	3 October 1929	Presumed sunk on 16 July 1940 in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily.
Poseidon	Vickers, Barrow	21 June 1929	Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer on 9 June 1931.
Proteus	Vickers, Barrow	23 July 1929	Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon.

References

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships

"Parthian class submarine". Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
"Parthian class". BritSub. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
"HMS Pandora". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
"Submarine losses 1904 to present day". Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Archived from the original on 2006-08-16. Retrieved 2006-12-02.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parthian class submarine.

v t e Parthian-class submarines

Pandora (ex-Python) Parthian Perseus Phoenix Poseidon Proteus

Preceded by: Odin class Followed by: Rainbow class List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

v t e British naval ship classes of the Second World War

Aircraft carriers	Courageous Argus Hermes Eagle Ark Royal Illustrious Unicorn Implacable Colossus Majestic^C Audacious^C Malta^X Centaur^C

Escort carriers	Archer^A Audacity Avenger^A Attacker^A Ruler^A Activity Pretoria Castle Nairana

Battleships	Queen Elizabeth Revenge Nelson King George V Lion^X Vanguard^C

Battlecruisers	Renown HMS Hood

Heavy cruisers	Hawkins County York

Light cruisers	C Danae Emerald Leander Arethusa Town Dido Crown Colony Minotaur

Minelayers	Adventure Abdiel Teviot Bank Agamemnon Menestheus Plover Port Napier Port Quebec Southern Prince

Destroyer leaders	Shakespeare Scott

Destroyers	R S V & W Town^A Ambuscade Amazon A B C & D E & F G & H I Tribal J, K & N Hunt L & M O & P Q & R S & T U & V W & Z C Battle Weapon^C G^X Daring^C

Frigates	River Captain^A Colony^A Loch Bay

Corvettes	Flower Castle

Sloops	24 Bridgewater Hastings Banff^A Shoreham Grimsby Kingfisher Bittern Egret Black Swan

Minesweepers	Hunt Halcyon Bangor Auk^A Algerine Cybele

Submarines	H L Odin Parthian Rainbow S River Grampus T U P611 V Amphion X XE

Other	Trawlers Isles Tree Monitors Erebus Roberts Seaplane carriers HMS Pegasus HMS Albatross Merchant aircraft carriers Fighter catapult ships Armed merchant cruisers Ocean boarding vessels Motor torpedo boat Motor gun boat

A American built X Cancelled C Completed after the war

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.