HMS Cachalot (S06)

HMS Cachalot (S06)
History
Builder:	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock (Scotland)
Cost:	£2,340,000 [1]
Laid down:	1 August 1955
Launched:	11 December 1957
Commissioned:	1 September 1959
Fate:	Broken up
General characteristics
Displacement:	2,080 tons surfaced 2,450 tons submerged
Length:	290 ft (88 m)
Beam:	26.5 ft (8.1 m)
Draught:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 × ASR 16VVS AS21 diesel generators totalling 3680 bhp (2,740 kW) 2 × English Electric main motors totalling 12000 hp (895 kW) driving two shafts 2 × 880 V batteries each of 224 cells
Speed:	12 knots surfaced, 17 knots submerged
Complement:	64
Armament:	6 × 21 inch (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) stern torpedo tubes 30 torpedoes could be carried (usually Mk8 or Mk23) or mines

HMS Cachalot (S06) was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 1 August 1955 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. She was launched on 11 December 1957, and commissioned on 1 September 1959.

Cachalot attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead when she was part of the Submarine Flotilla.^[2]

She was sold on 12 November 1979 for breaking up at Blyth.

Commanding Officers

References

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.