| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Holland |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 07-10-1913 to Pollock & Brown of Southampton. |
| Length overall | 63 ft 10 inch |
| Beam | 11 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 113 tons (surface) |
| 122 tons (submerged) | |
| Propulsion | Petrol engine, 160 hp |
| Electric motor, 74 hp | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft diameter |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 8 knots (design) |
| Surface 7.4 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 6 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 355 miles (design) |
| Surface: 235 miles (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 5 knots | |
| Armament | 1 x 18 inch bow torpedo tube (three torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 8 |
| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Beardmore (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Orpheus was declared overdue on 27th June 1940. The likely cause of her loss with all hands is that she was mined off Benghazi. | |
Set during the Second World War, Above Us The Waves [1955] tells the dramatic tale of British attempts to sink a German warship, the "Tirpitz", using midget submarines. This 1950s film stars John Mills, John Gregson and Donald Sinden.
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| Length overall | 63 ft 10 inch |
| Beam | 11 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 113 tons (surface) |
| 122 tons (submerged) | |
| Propulsion | Petrol engine, 160 hp |
| Electric motor, 74 hp | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft diameter |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 8 knots (design) |
| Surface 7.4 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 6 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 355 miles (design) |
| Surface: 235 miles (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 5 knots | |
| Armament | 1 x 18 inch bow torpedo tube (three torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 8 |
| Class: | 1925 - 1946: Odin Class |
| Built By: | Beardmore (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Orpheus was declared overdue on 27th June 1940. The likely cause of her loss with all hands is that she was mined off Benghazi. | |
Set during the Second World War, Above Us The Waves [1955] tells the dramatic tale of British attempts to sink a German warship, the "Tirpitz", using midget submarines. This 1950s film stars John Mills, John Gregson and Donald Sinden.
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