HMS Alderney (P416)
.jpg) HMS Alderney at Plymouth Sounds in 1954. | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | Very late in World War II |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1945 |
| Launched: | 25 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | November 1967 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 6 June 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged) |
| Length: | 293 ft 6 in (89.46 m) |
| Beam: | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 1 in (5.51 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 2,150 hp Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp electric motors for submergence driving two shafts |
| Speed: | 18.5 kn (34.3 km/h) surface, 8 kn (15 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 10,500 nmi (19,400 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) surfaced 16 nmi (30 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) or 90 nmi (170 km) at 3 kn (5.6 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 350 ft (110 m) |
| Complement: | 5 officers 55 enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 × 21" (2 external)bow torpedo tube, 4 × 21" (2 external) stern torpedo tube, containing a total of 20 torpedoes Mines: 26 1 × 4" main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun |
HMS Alderney (P416), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow and launched 25 June 1945[1] by Mrs Molly Wallis, wife of Sir Barnes Wallis. She was the 12th of the class and was scrapped in 1972.
Operational Service
Alderney completed three commissions between 1954 and 1963 with the 6th Submarine Squadron at Halifax Nova Scotia, carrying out exercises with the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force. She was modernised during a long refit in Portsmouth Dockyard between 1956 and 1958. In 1965 she recommissioned for the eighth time and was allocated to the 1st Submarine Squadron at HMS Dolphin. In 1965 and 1966 she was present at Portsmouth Navy Days.[2][3] She was decommissioned in 1966 and was finally scrapped at Troon, Scotland on 1 February 1970.[4]
Commanding officers
| 1956 | 1960 | Lieutenant Commander Hedgcock. RN. |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1963 | |
| 1965 | 1965 | Lieutenant Commander A M Bruce RN |
| 1966 | 1966 | Lieutenant Commander F D Lown RN |
References
- ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3618.html
- ↑ Programme, Portsmouth Navy Days, 28–30 August 1965, HMSO, p15
- ↑ Programme, Portsmouth Navy Days, 27–29 August 1966, HMSO, p19
- ↑ HMS Talent, Uboot.net
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.