| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Holland |
| Fate: | Foundered while on tow on 8th August 1912 off the NAB Tower whilst under tow to the breakers yard. |
| 04-02-1901 | Laid Down |
| 21-05-1902 | Launched |
| 19-01-1903 | Completed |
| 08-08-1912 | Foundered while on tow off the NAB Tower whilst under tow to the breakers yard. |
| 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: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Cancelled and scrapped incomplete 1945 | |
U-571 Stars Matthew McCaughney, Bill Paxton and Jon-Bon Jovi.
A team of US soldiers are sent on a mission to sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat to steal an encryption device that would give the Allies the edge they need to win the war. What they don't know is... Germans are on their way to answer the SOS as well.
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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: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Cancelled and scrapped incomplete 1945 | |
U-571 Stars Matthew McCaughney, Bill Paxton and Jon-Bon Jovi.
A team of US soldiers are sent on a mission to sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat to steal an encryption device that would give the Allies the edge they need to win the war. What they don't know is... Germans are on their way to answer the SOS as well.
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