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Note
Date 13 February 2003
Event ID 585351
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585351
Displacement: 545/740 tons
Length: 200ft (61m) between perpendiculars; 206ft (62.8m) over all
Beam: 16ft (4.9m)
Draught: 12ft 9ins (3.9m)
Machinery: 2-shaft diesel electrics (Davey Paxman/General Electric); 800/760 bhp; 13/10 kts
Armament: 1 x 3in (76mm) gun; 3 x machine guns; 4 x 21in (533mm) torpedo tubes (all fixed forward)
Diving depth: 200ft (61m)
Complement: 37
This V class submarine (essentially a unit of the second group of the U class) was built as P64, being launched by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow on 23 November 1942. She was 'wrecked' in the Firth of Clyde (where she presumably served as a training boat) on 24 February 1943.
Originally intended as training boats, the numerous boats of U and V classes were of single hull construction with bulbous bow casings; these were later removed and the second group was lengthened aft to improve water flow around the propellers.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 February 2003.
H T Lenton and J J Colledge 1962; H T Lenton 1972.
