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| Class overview |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Odin class submarine |
| Succeeded by: |
Rainbow class submarine |
| 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
2 × electric motors, 1,635 hp
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: |
• 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads
• 1 × 4 in (100 mm) deck gun
After 1942 :
• 2 × 20 mm machine guns
• Equipped to lay mines through torpedo tubes |
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.
Ships
| Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Fate |
| Pandora (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. |
| Parthian |
Chatham Dockyard |
June 22, 1929 |
Lost between August 6 and August 11, 1943 in the Adriatic. Presumed mined. |
| Perseus |
Vickers, Barrow |
May 22, 1929 |
Mined ? in Mediterranean, 6 December 1941 |
| Phoenix |
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. |
| Poseidon |
Vickers, Barrow |
June 21, 1929 |
Sank in accidental collision with merchant steamer on June 9, 1931. |
| Proteus |
Vickers, Barrow |
July 23, 1929 |
Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon |
References
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
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