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.