Parthian-class submarine
 HMS Phoenix, 1939 |
| Class overview |
| Name: |
Parthian class |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Odin class |
| Succeeded by: |
Rainbow class |
|
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 (3,460 kW)
- 2 × electric motors, 1,635 hp (1,219 kW)
- 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: |
|
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 boats were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
Boats
| 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. |
|
Notes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
References
- Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7.
- Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6.
- 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.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2.
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