| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | A1 |
| Fate: | Foundered in Bomb Ketch Lake Portsmouth in January 1920. Sold 22/10/1925 to H J Pounds of Portsmouth |
HMS Mercury, Portsmouth.
1914-15: Harbour service, Portsmouth
1918: Training duty
| 06-11-1902 | Laid Down |
| 15-04-1903 | Launched |
| 21-06-1904 | Completed |
| 22-10-1925 | Sold to H J Pounds of Portsmouth |
| Length overall | 105 ft 1/2 inch |
| Beam | 12 ft 8 3/4 inch |
| Depth | 10 ft |
| Displacement | 190 tons (surface) |
| 205.5 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 11.5 knots (design) 11+ knots (service) |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) 6 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 4 ft 4 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 600 miles at full power (design) |
| Surface: 325 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 11 |
Terrapin fuelled at Exmouth Gulf and passed through Lombok Strait on the surface at night on 11th May, 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 | 105 ft 1/2 inch |
| Beam | 12 ft 8 3/4 inch |
| Depth | 10 ft |
| Displacement | 190 tons (surface) |
| 205.5 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 11.5 knots (design) 11+ knots (service) |
| Submerged 7 knots (design) 6 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 4 ft 4 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 600 miles at full power (design) |
| Surface: 325 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 20 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 11 |
Terrapin fuelled at Exmouth Gulf and passed through Lombok Strait on the surface at night on 11th May, 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.
20 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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