Engineering:Parthian-class submarine
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Short description: Type of British submarines in service after WWI and during WWII
 HMS Phoenix, 1939
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Parthian class |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | Odin class |
| Succeeded by: | Rainbow class |
| In commission: | 1929–1946 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Submarine |
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| Length: | 289 ft (88 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
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| Complement: | 53 |
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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 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
Boats
| Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
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| Pandora (ex-Python) | Vickers, Barrow | 22 August 1929 | Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955 |
| Parthian | Chatham Dockyard | 22 June 1929 | Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August – 11 August 1943 |
| Perseus | Vickers, Barrow | 22 May 1929 | Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941 |
| Phoenix | Cammell Laird | 3 October 1929 | Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940 |
| Poseidon | Vickers, Barrow | 21 June 1929 | Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s[2] |
| Proteus | Vickers, Barrow | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped at Troon, March 1946 |
References
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
- ↑ Ryall, Julian (12 June 2009). written at Weihai. "China accused of secretly salvaging sunken British submarine containing 18 lost sailors". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5515941/China-accused-of-secretly-salvaging-sunken-British-submarine-containing-18-lost-sailors.html.
Bibliography
- Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7.
- Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6.
- Caruana, Joseph (2012). "Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII". Warship International LXIX (4): 357–364. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2.
External links
- "Parthian class submarine". Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/parthian.htm.
- "Parthian class". rnsubs.co.uk. http://rnsubs.co.uk/boats/subs/parthian-class.html.
- "HMS Pandora". Uboat.net. https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3404.html.
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