| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | Cormorant |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1949 and broken up at Malaga. |
The Gibraltar Submarine Flotilla based on HMS Cormorant - the Flag Ship of the Admiral Commanding at Gibraltar.
Renamed HMS Rooke in 1946 and scrapped in 1949, being broken up at Malaga.
| 12-09-1877 | Launched |
| 02-07-1878 | Commissioned |
| Displacement | 1,130 long tons |
| Length | 170 ft |
| Beam | 36 ft |
| Draught | 15 ft 9 in |
| Depth | 19 ft 6 in |
| Installed power | 951 bhp |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft |
| 1 x 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine | |
| 3 x cylindrical boilers | |
| Sail plan | Barque rig |
| Speed | 11 knots |
| Range | 1,480 nmi at 10 knots |
| Complement | 140 |
| Armament | 2 x 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns |
| 4 x 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns |
Excalibur (S 40) |
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| Class: | 1955 - 1970: Explorer Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | Excalibur |
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Fate: Broken Up 1970 |
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World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time and air start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the handful of survivors together and tries to figure out the best means of escape.
Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick co-star.
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| Displacement | 1,130 long tons |
| Length | 170 ft |
| Beam | 36 ft |
| Draught | 15 ft 9 in |
| Depth | 19 ft 6 in |
| Installed power | 951 bhp |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft |
| 1 x 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine | |
| 3 x cylindrical boilers | |
| Sail plan | Barque rig |
| Speed | 11 knots |
| Range | 1,480 nmi at 10 knots |
| Complement | 140 |
| Armament | 2 x 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns |
| 4 x 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns |
Excalibur (S 40) |
|
| Class: | 1955 - 1970: Explorer Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | Excalibur |
|
Fate: Broken Up 1970 |
|
World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time and air start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the handful of survivors together and tries to figure out the best means of escape.
Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick co-star.
12 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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