| Built By: | John Brown and Co (Cylde) |
| Build Group: | Montclare |
| Fate: | Broken up at Inverkeithing in 1958 |
The passenger ship Montclare of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, Montreal was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser being commissioned as such in October 1939
Sold to the Admiralty and converted to a submarine depot ship for the 3rd Submarine flotilla
1948: Captain (Subs), 3rd Sub Flotilla Feb
Decommissioned in 1954 and laid up at Portsmouth
January 1958 sold for scrap at Inverkeithing.
| 18-12-1921 | Launched |
| 02-06-1942 | Sold to the Admiralty for conversion to a submarine depot ship |
| 29-08-1944 | Recommissioned as depot ship |
| 28-01-1958 | Left Portsmouth under tow to be broken up at Inverkeithing |
| 03-02-1958 | Scrapping commenced |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 4th May, 1943 | |
| Motto | Mare Ditat Rosa. (The sea enriches, the rose decorates.) | |
| Symbology | The house flag of her original owners, the Canadian-Pacific Steamship Company. | |
| Design Notes | A roundel per fess white and red charged with a pale counterchanged maple leaf proper. Background barry wavy, of ten white and blue. | |
| Displacement | 21,550 tons when commissioned |
| Length | 549.5 ft (167.5 m) |
| Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Depth | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 2,524 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| 6 × steam turbines | |
| Built with double reduction gearing. 1929 single reduction gearing | |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Armament | 4 × 4-inch AA guns |
| 42 × 2-pounder AA guns | |
| 19 × 20 mm AA guns |
Osiris (S 13) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O2a |
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Fate: Stripped down by Cammell Laird in 1993 and all parts (even the complete engines) shipped to Canada and used as spares for their O boats |
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An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 4th May, 1943 | |
| Motto | Mare Ditat Rosa. (The sea enriches, the rose decorates.) | |
| Symbology | The house flag of her original owners, the Canadian-Pacific Steamship Company. | |
| Design Notes | A roundel per fess white and red charged with a pale counterchanged maple leaf proper. Background barry wavy, of ten white and blue. | |
| Displacement | 21,550 tons when commissioned |
| Length | 549.5 ft (167.5 m) |
| Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Depth | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 2,524 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| 6 × steam turbines | |
| Built with double reduction gearing. 1929 single reduction gearing | |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Armament | 4 × 4-inch AA guns |
| 42 × 2-pounder AA guns | |
| 19 × 20 mm AA guns |
Osiris (S 13) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O2a |
|
Fate: Stripped down by Cammell Laird in 1993 and all parts (even the complete engines) shipped to Canada and used as spares for their O boats |
|
An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
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