XE9

Built By:	Broadbent (Huddersfield)
Build Group:	XE
Fate:	Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland.

XE9

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Unofficially named Unexpected

Events

15-11-1944 :

Completed

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XE Specification

Length overall	51' 7"
Beam	8' 6" (with charges)
	5' 9 1/2" (without charges)
Displacement	Without Charges: 27 tons (surface)
	Without Charges: 29 1/2 tons (submerged)
Diving Depth	300'
Speed	With Charges: 6.5 knots (surface)
	With Charges: 5 knots (submerged)
No. of shafts	1
Armament	2 2-ton side charges, Limpet mines
Endurance	Surface: 1320 miles at 4 knots (with charges)
	Surface 1860 miles at 4 knots (without charges)
	Submerged: 80 miles at 2 knots (with charges)
Complement	4

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Sir Arthur Wilson was infamous within the Royal Navy for being an admiral with a tetchy temper. Yet a verbal broadside he delivered in 1901 was to spawn one of the Submarine Service's most loved and deeply ingrained traditions, the flying of the Jolly Roger flag to mark the victorious return from a successful patrol.