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The Parthian class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920's. They were designed as long range patrol submarines for the Far East. These ships were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
[edit] General characteristics
From Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
- Displacement
- Surfaced - 1760 tons
- Submerged - 2040 tons
- Length: 88.14 m / 289 ft 2 in
- Beam: 9.12 m / 29 ft 11 in
- Draught: 4.85 m / 15 ft 11 in
- Machinery - 2 shaft diesel electric
- Admiralty diesels - 4640 hp
- Electric motors - 1635 hp
- Speed
- Surfaced - 17.5 knots
- Submerged - 8.6 knots
- Armament
- Eight 21in torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern 14 torpedoes)
- 1 - 4 in deck gun, 2 -20 mm fitted after 1942
- After 1942, surviving submarines were fitted to be able to jettison mines through the torpedo tubes.
- Crew: 53
| Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Fate |
| HMS Pandora (N42) (ex Python) |
Vickers, Barrow |
August 22, 1929 |
Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valetta, Malta April 1 1942. Raised in September 1943, but not repaired. Hulk scrapped in 1955. |
| HMS Parthian (N75) |
Chatham Dockyard |
June 22, 1929 |
Lost between August 6 and August 11, 1943 in the Adriatic. Presumed mined. |
| HMS Perseus (N36) |
Vickers, Barrow |
May 22, 1929 |
Mined ? in Mediterranean, 6 December 1941 |
| HMS Phoenix (N96) |
Cammell Laird |
October 3, 1929 |
Presumed sunk on July 16, 1940 in depth charge attack by the Italian Torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily. |
| HMS Poseidon |
Vickers, Barrow |
June 21, 1929 |
Sank in accidental collision with merchant steamer on June 9, 1931. |
| HMS Proteus (N29) |
Vickers, Barrow |
July 23, 1929 |
Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon |
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